BILL ANALYSIS �
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2478 (Hayashi)
As Amended August 6, 2012
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |75-0 |(May 30, 2012) |SENATE: |37-0 |(August 22, |
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Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.
SUMMARY : Extends resident classification for up to one year to
California Community College (CCC) students who were stationed
in California on active duty for more than one year immediately
prior to being discharged, if the student:
1)Files an affidavit with the community college stating his or
her intent to establish residency as soon as possible.
2)Resides in this state while using the exemption and within two
years of being discharged.
3)Did not receive a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge.
The Senate amendments reduce the length of the exemption from
nonresident fees from two years to one year and prohibit
students with dishonorable or bad conduct discharges from
receiving this benefit.
EXISTING LAW establishes uniform residency requirements for
purposes of ascertaining the amount of fees to be paid by
students at the University of California, the California State
University, and CCC and establishes various exceptions to these
residency requirements, including members of the Armed Forces
who are stationed in California on active duty and their
dependents. (Education Code Sections 68074 and 68075)
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill provided a two year
exemption from nonresident CCC fees for eligible veterans.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee:
1)Each affected veteran would be eligible to pay $46 per unit,
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rather than $244 per unit. For each full time student
(enrolled in 30 units per academic year), the CCC would lose
$5,920 in fee revenue.
2)The number of veterans who will be eligible to benefit from
this bill is not known. There are currently approximately
44,000 veterans enrolled in CCCs statewide. If 1% of them
were full-time students newly eligible to pay resident tuition
rates, the resulting fee loss would be approximately $2.6
million. The CCC system budget assumes a certain amount of
fee revenue each year. Fee revenue losses result in General
Fund cost pressure to backfill the lost revenue in order to
continue to provide necessary programs.
3)This bill does not make affected veterans eligible for Board
of Governors (BOG) fee waivers, because it only waives
non-resident fees requirements, rather than providing that
they meet residency requirements (needed for Board of
Governors (BOG) fee waiver eligibility).
COMMENTS : Under existing law, veterans from other states are
charged nonresident fees during their first year while they
establish residency. The Post-GI Bill benefits fund a student's
in-state tuition and fees for 36 months. Thus, this bill would
provide a subsidy equaling the difference between the resident
and non-resident fees at the student's college for the one year
required to establish residency.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960
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