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SCA-4 University of California: tuition and mandatory systemwide fees: out-of-state students: admission: student financial assistance.(2015-2016)

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Amended  IN  Senate  May 28, 2015

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2015–2016 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 4

Introduced by Senator Nguyen
(Coauthors: Senators Bates, Fuller, Stone, and Vidak)

March 10, 2015

A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Section 9.5 to, and adding and repealing Section 9.7 of, Article IX thereof, relating to the University of California.


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SCA 4, as amended, Nguyen. University of California: admission of tuition and mandatory systemwide fees: out-of-state students: admission: student financial assistance.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution establish the University of California as a public trust under the administration of the Regents of the University of California. The University of California system includes 10 campuses, which are respectively located in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
This measure would require that, for the 2017–18 academic year, and each academic year thereafter, out-of-state undergraduate students, as defined, would constitute not more than 10% of an incoming undergraduate class, and not more than 10% of the total undergraduate enrollment, at each campus in the University of California system. The bill would prohibit the University of California from providing state-funded financial assistance to an undergraduate student who, in the absence of financial assistance, is statutorily required to pay tuition or any mandatory fee at a rate higher than a California resident.
This measure would also prohibit the total amount of tuition and mandatory systemwide fees charged to undergraduate students of the University of California from being increased from the 2016–17 academic year to the 2020–21 academic year, inclusive.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2015–16 Regular Session commencing on the first day of December 2014, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California that the Constitution of the State be amended as follows:

First—

 That Section 9.5 is added to Article IX thereof, to read:

SEC. 9.5.
 (a) For the 2017–18 academic year, and for each academic year thereafter, out-of-state undergraduate students shall constitute not more than 10 percent of the incoming undergraduate class, and not more than 10 percent of the total undergraduate enrollment, at each campus in the University of California system.
(b) The University of California shall not provide state-funded financial assistance to an undergraduate student who, in the absence of financial assistance, is statutorily required to pay tuition or any mandatory fee at a rate higher than a California resident.

(b)

(c) For purposes of this section, an “out-of-state undergraduate student” is an undergraduate student whose residence was outside of California at the time he or she applied for admission to the University of California.

Second—

 That Section 9.7 is added to Article IX thereof, to read:

SEC. 9.7.
 (a) The total amount of tuition and mandatory systemwide fees charged to undergraduate students of the University of California shall not be increased from the 2016–17 academic year to the 2020–21 academic year, inclusive.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2021, and as of that date is repealed.