BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: May 4, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
AB
2364 (Holden) - As Amended April 7, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: YesReimbursable:
Yes
SUMMARY:
This bill requires California Community Colleges (CCCs) to
exempt from nonresident CCC student fees undocumented high
school students concurrently enrolled at CCCs, and allows
districts to claim state apportionment funding for such
students.
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FISCAL EFFECT:
The CCC Chancellor's Office indicates that undocumented AB 540
students constitute about 3% of total CCC enrollment. A similar
proportion of total concurrent enrollment would be about 2,350
students, and assuming each student takes one course per
semester yields 560 full-time equivalent student (FTES), the
additional apportionment claim would total about $2.6 million
annually. [GF-Prop 98]
There should be no measurable loss of tuition revenue to the
districts, as it is assumed that most students who would benefit
from this bill would otherwise not attend a community college
and pay nonresident student fees of around $200 per unit.
COMMENTS:
1)Background. AB 288 (Holden), Chapter 618, Statutes of 2015,
authorizes the governing board of a community college district
to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP)
partnership with the governing board of a school district for
the purpose of offering or expanding dual (K-12/CCC)
enrollment opportunities for students who may not already be
college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education,
with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school
to community college for career technical education or
preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation
rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and
career readiness.
2)Purpose. According to the author, this measure ensures that
undocumented students are able to access concurrent enrollment
programs by granting them resident tuition eligibility and,
that community colleges are able to claim apportionment for
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said students.
3)Related Legislation. AB 2681 (O'Donnell), pending in this
committee, establishes an incentive for districts to enter
into CCAP partnerships by providing planning grants that may
be used to offset the costs of associated activities.
Analysis Prepared by:Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916)
319-2081