BILL NUMBER: SCA 4	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 28, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Nguyen
   (Coauthors: Senators Bates, Fuller, Stone, and Vidak)

                        MARCH 10, 2015

   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: 
admission of   tuition and mandatory systemwide fees:
 out-of-state students  :   admission: student
financial assistance  .
   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,  would  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.  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. 
   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.

   (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. 

   (b) 
    (   c)  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.