Amended in Senate May 28, 2015

Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 4

Introduced by Senator Nguyen

(Coauthors: Senators Bates, Fuller, Stone, and Vidak)

March 10, 2015

Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 4—A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Section 9.5 to, and adding and repealing Section 9.7 of, Article IX thereof, relating to the University of California.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SCA 4, as amended, Nguyen. University of California: begin delete admission of end delete begin insert tuition and mandatory systemwide fees: end insert out-of-state students begin insert : end insert begin insert admission: student financial assistance end insert .

Existing provisions of the California Constitution establish the University of California as a public trust under the administration of the Regents of the University of California. The University of California system includes 10 campuses, which are respectively located in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.

This measure would require that, for the 2017-18 academic year, and each academic year thereafter, out-of-state undergraduate students, as defined, begin delete would end delete constitute not more than 10% of an incoming undergraduate class, and not more than 10% of the total undergraduate enrollment, at each campus in the University of California system. begin insert The bill would prohibit the University of California from providing state-funded financial assistance to an undergraduate student who, in the absence of financial assistance, is statutorily required to pay tuition or any mandatory fee at a rate higher than a California resident. end insert

This measure would also prohibit the total amount of tuition and mandatory systemwide fees charged to undergraduate students of the University of California from being increased from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2020-21 academic year, inclusive.

Vote: ²⁄₃. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2015-16 Regular
Session commencing on the first day of December 2014, two-thirds
of the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to
the people of the State of California that the Constitution of the
State be amended as follows:

First--  

That Section 9.5 is added to Article IX thereof, to read:

SEC. 9.5.  

(a) For the 2017-18 academic year, and for each
academic year thereafter, out-of-state undergraduate students shall
constitute not more than 10 percent of the incoming undergraduate
class, and not more than 10 percent of the total undergraduate
enrollment, at each campus in the University of California system.

begin insert

(b) The University of California shall not provide state-funded
financial assistance to an undergraduate student who, in the
absence of financial assistance, is statutorily required to pay tuition
or any mandatory fee at a rate higher than a California resident.

end insert begin delete

(b)

end delete

begin insert ( end insert begin insert c) end insert  For purposes of this section, an “out-of-state undergraduate
student” is an undergraduate student whose residence was outside
of California at the time he or she applied for admission to the
University of California.

Second--  

That Section 9.7 is added to Article IX thereof, to
read:

SEC. 9.7.  

(a) The total amount of tuition and mandatory
systemwide fees charged to undergraduate students of the
University of California shall not be increased from the 2016-17
academic year to the 2020-21 academic year, inclusive.

(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2021, and
as of that date is repealed.