BILL NUMBER: AB 2166	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cooper

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to amend Section 68120 of the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2166, as introduced, Cooper. Public postsecondary education:
waiver of mandatory campus-based fees.
   Existing law prohibits the Board of Directors of the Hastings
College of the Law, the Trustees of the California State University,
and, if they adopt an appropriate resolution, the Regents of the
University of California, from collecting mandatory systemwide
tuition and fees from any surviving spouse or surviving child of a
deceased person who was a resident of the state and employed by or
contracting with a public agency, whose principal duties consisted of
active law enforcement service or active fire suppression and
prevention, and who died as a result of his or her duties, as
specified.
   This bill would additionally require those institutions to excuse
any mandatory campus-based fees for those persons described above.
This requirement would apply to the University of California only if
the regents, by resolution, make it applicable.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 68120 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   68120.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
mandatory systemwide fees or tuition  or mandatory campus-based
fees  of any kind shall be required of or collected by the
Regents of the University of California, the Board of Directors of
the Hastings College of the Law,  or  the Trustees
of the California State University  , or any campus of the
University of California or the California State University 
from any surviving spouse or surviving child of a deceased person who
met all of the following requirements:
   (1) He or she was a resident of this state.
   (2) He or she was employed by a public agency, or was a
contractor, or an employee of a contractor, performing services for a
public agency.
   (3) His or her principal duties consisted of active law
enforcement service or active fire suppression and prevention. This
section shall not apply to a person whose principal duties were
clerical, even if he or she was subject to occasional call or was
occasionally called upon to perform duties within the scope of active
law enforcement or active fire suppression and prevention.
   (4) He or she was killed in the performance of active law
enforcement or active fire suppression and prevention duties, or died
as a result of an accident or an injury caused by external violence
or physical force, incurred in the performance of his or her active
law enforcement or active fire suppression and prevention duties.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a person who qualifies for
the waiver of mandatory systemwide fees and tuition  and
mandatory campus-based fees  under this section as a surviving
child of a contractor, or of an employee of a contractor, who
performed services for a public agency shall, in addition to the
requirements set forth in subdivision (a), meet both of the following
requirements:
   (1) Enrollment as an undergraduate student at a campus of the
University of California or the California State University.
   (2) Documentation that his or her annual income, including the
value of any support received from a parent, does not exceed the
maximum household income and asset level for an applicant for a Cal
Grant B award, as set forth in Section 69432.7.
   (c) As used in this section:
   (1) "Contractor" or "employee of a contractor" does not include a
security guard or security officer, as defined in Section 7582.1 of
the Business and Professions Code.
   (2) "Public agency" means the state or any city, city and county,
county, district, or other local authority or public body of or
within the state.
   (3) "Surviving child" means either of the following:
   (A) A surviving natural or adopted child of the deceased person.
   (B) A surviving stepchild who meets both of the following
requirements:
   (i) He or she was living or domiciled with the deceased person at
the time of his or her death.
   (ii) He or she was claimed on the tax form most recently filed by
the deceased person prior to that person's death, or he or she
received 50 percent or more of his or her support from that deceased
person in the tax year immediately preceding the death of the
deceased person, or both.