BILL NUMBER: AB 336	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Yamada

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2009

   An act to amend Section 76140.5 of the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 336, as introduced, Yamada. Community colleges: nonresident
tuition: firefighters exemption.
   Existing law allows a community college to exempt from nonresident
tuition fees a student hired by a public agency who enrolls in
police academy training courses at a community college if specified
requirements are met.
   This bill would expand this exemption to a student hired by a
public agency who enrolls in firefighter training courses.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 76140.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   76140.5.  Notwithstanding Section 76140, a community college may
classify a nonresident student who has been hired by a public agency,
as a resident for purposes of enrollment in and completion of police
academy training  or firefighter training  courses at a
community college, if the student has passed all other requirements
of the public agency and if written assurances are provided by the
public agency that it intends to classify the student as a peace
officer  or a firefighter  upon successful completion of the
police academy training  or firefighter training  course.