BILL NUMBER: AB 1850	CHAPTERED  06/21/00

	CHAPTER   40
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JUNE 21, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JUNE 19, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   JUNE 15, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JUNE 15, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 8, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 3, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 23, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Correa and Shelley
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Lowenthal)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Alquist, Cardoza, Cunneen,
Firebaugh, Granlund, Havice, Honda, Jackson, Keeley, Knox, Lempert,
Longville, Machado, Pescetti, Reyes, Strickland, Thompson, Torlakson,
Washington, Wayne, Wildman, and Zettel)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Alpert, Dunn, Karnette, Schiff, and Soto)

                        FEBRUARY 7, 2000

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1850, Correa.  California public universities:  spouses and
children of deceased public safety officers:  educational benefits.
   Existing law prohibits the Regents of the University of
California, the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the
Law, and the Trustees of the California State University System from
requiring or collecting fees or tuition from any surviving natural or
adopted child of a law enforcement or fire suppression and
prevention employee of a public agency, as defined, or until January
1, 2002, a child of a contractor or employee of a contractor
performing services for a public agency, killed in the performance of
active law enforcement or active fire suppression and prevention
duties, if the deceased person met specified requirements.
   This bill would additionally make those educational benefits
available to a surviving spouse of a deceased  person to which this
provision is applicable.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 68120 of the Education Code, as amended by
Section 1 of Chapter 953 of the Statutes of 1999, is amended to read:

   68120.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
mandatory systemwide fees or tuition 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 from any surviving spouse
or surviving child, natural or adopted, 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) As used in this section, "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.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2002, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2002, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 2.  Section 68120 of the Education Code, as added by Section 2
of Chapter 953 of the Statutes of 1999, is amended to read:
   68120.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
mandatory systemwide fees or tuition 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 from any surviving spouse
or surviving child, natural or adopted, 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.
   (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) As used in this section, "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.
   (c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2002.