BILL NUMBER: AB 1958	CHAPTERED  09/08/00

	CHAPTER   355
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 8, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 7, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 24, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 23, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 8, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 21, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Romero

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2000

   An act to add Section 66201.7 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1958, Romero.  Public postsecondary education:  deferred
enrollment at University of California and California State
University.
   Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets
forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's
public and independent segments of higher education, and their
respective institutions of higher education.  Provisions of the act
apply to the University of California only to the extent that the
Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution,
act to make a provision applicable.  Among other things, the act sets
forth legislative intent relating to admission to the University of
California and the California State University.
   This bill would request the University of California, and would
require the California State University, to require each campus in
their respective systems to develop a process through which a student
admitted to full-time undergraduate status may apply to defer his or
her enrollment for up to one academic year.  The bill would specify
that the decision as to whether to grant the deferral of enrollment
would be made at the discretion of the affected university, on a
case-by-case basis.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 66201.7 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66201.7.  The Regents of the University of California are
requested to, and the Trustees of the California State University
shall, require each campus in their respective systems to develop a
process through which a student admitted to full-time undergraduate
status may apply to defer his or her enrollment for up to one
academic year.  The decision as to whether to grant the deferral of
the enrollment may be made, at the discretion of the affected
university, on a case-by-case basis.