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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                          SB 813 (Correa)
          
          Hearing Date: 05/16/2011        Amended: 05/03/2011
          Consultant: Jacqueline Wong-HernandezPolicy Vote: Education 
          10-0; V.A. 8-0
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          BILL SUMMARY: SB 813 would extend the period of time, from two 
          years to four years, that a former member of the Armed Forces 
          receives priority registration for enrollment at the California 
          State University (CSU) and the California Community Colleges 
          (CCC). This bill requests that the University of California (UC) 
          comply with priority enrollment as specified in this measure.
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions              2011-12                  2012-13        
           2013-14                       Fund
                                                                      
          Extend CCC priority registration   Possibly significant 
          reimbursable mandate   General

          Extend CSU priority registration           Likely minor and 
          absorbable                 General
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          STAFF COMMENTS: This bill may meet the criteria for referral to 
          the Suspense File.
          
          Existing law requires the CCC and CSU, and requests UC, to give 
          priority for registration for enrollment to any member or former 
          member of the Armed Services for any academic term attended at 
          one of these institutions within two years of leaving active 
          duty, if the institution already administers a priority 
          enrollment system. (Education Code � 66025.8) 

          SB 272 (Runner, 2007) originally established that priority 
          registration for veterans at CSU and CCCs. When that bill was 
          proposed, CCCs estimated this bill would result in minor costs 
          for each campus, mostly related to database adjustment and 
          training.  Staff estimated the change would require an average 








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          of 20 hours of staff time at $30 per hour (including benefits) 
          for each CCC campus, for a total cost of approximately $65,000. 

          While SB 272 was a new mandate on the CCCs, no mandate claim was 
          ever filed to implement its provisions. The state did not 
          reimburse the CCCs for any changes they may have made to 
          implement the bill. Extending the term for which veterans are 
          given priority enrollment from two to four years is unlikely to 
          require substantial additional work for the CCCs, but is a 
          reimbursable mandate and the CCCs could request reimbursement. 
          The CCCs have suffered extensive budget reductions in recent 
          years, and may be more likely to file a mandate claim for 
          additional workload. Any mandate filed is likely to be less than 
          the $65,000 originally estimated for the changes.