BILL NUMBER: AB 2401	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Block

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 66202 of the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2401, as introduced, Block. Public postsecondary education:
admissions policy.
   Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, provides
for a public postsecondary education system in this state. This
system consists of the University of California, the California State
University, and the California Community Colleges. Among other
things, the Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth legislative
intent with respect to enrollment planning and admission priority
practice at the undergraduate resident student level for the
California State University and the University of California.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature, subject to
existing admission priority practices, that the California State
University provide applicants residing in the local service area, as
defined, priority admission to the applicant's local California State
University campus over other California residents or out-of-state
applicants entering as first-time freshmen or sophomores, provided
they meet relevant admissions criteria.
   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 66202 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   66202.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the following
categories be followed, insofar as practicable in the following
numerical order, for the purpose of enrollment planning and admission
priority practice at the undergraduate resident student level for
the California State University and the University of California:
   (1) Continuing undergraduate students in good standing.
   (2) California Community College transfer students who have
successfully concluded a course of study in an approved transfer
agreement program.
   (3)  (A)    Other California Community College
students who have met all of the requirements for transfer. 
    As 
    (B)     As  stated in legislative
findings, the transfer function plays a key role in meeting the state'
s goals of educational equity. Therefore, the Board of Regents of the
University of California and the Board of Trustees of the California
State University shall declare as policy for this  paragraph
  subparagraph  and paragraph (2)  of this
subdivision  that students who are eligible to transfer and
who are from historically underrepresented groups or economically
disadvantaged families shall be given preference, to the fullest
extent possible under state and federal law, statutes, and
regulations, in transfer admissions decisions, and shall design
policies in conformity with state and federal statutes and
regulations intended to facilitate their success in achieving
transfer.
   (4) Other qualified transfer students.
   (5) California residents entering at the freshman or sophomore
levels.
   (b) It is further the intent of the Legislature that within each
of the preceding enrollment categories, the following groups of
applicants receive priority consideration in admissions practice in
the following order:
   (1) Residents of California who are recently released veterans of
the armed forces of the United States.
   (2) Transfers from California public community colleges.
   (3) Applicants who have been previously enrolled at the campus to
which they are applying, provided they left this institution in good
standing.
   (4) Applicants who have a degree or credential objective that is
not generally offered at other public institutions of higher learning
within California.
   (5) Applicants for whom the distance involved in attending another
institution would create financial or other hardships.
   (c) It is further the intent of the Legislature that those
veterans referred to in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) who were
enrolled in good standing at a campus of the University of California
or at one of the California State Universities prior to military
service receive priority over other veterans recently released from
military service. 
   (d) (1) It is further the intent of the Legislature that, within
each of the priority enrollment categories in subdivisions (a) to
(c), inclusive, the California State University provide applicants
who reside in the local service area of a campus with priority
admission to the applicant's local California State University campus
over other California residents or out-of-state applicants entering
as first-time freshmen or sophomores, provided they meet relevant
admissions criteria. An applicant who is provided priority admission
pursuant to this subdivision shall be subject to any additional
admissions criteria resulting from impaction of a major or campus.
 
   (2) As used in this subdivision, "local service area" means the
CSU service area for the campus as set forth in the California State
University Coded Memorandum AA-2005-05, dated February 23, 2005.