BILL NUMBER: AB 2000INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gomez FEBRUARY 20, 2014 An act to add Section 68130.8 to the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2000, as introduced, Gomez. Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition. Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001-02 academic year, and who, if he or she is an alien without lawful immigration status, has filed an affidavit as specified, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. This bill would provide that a student's exemption from nonresident tuition for an academic year pursuant to the above-referenced provision is to be determined solely on the basis of the criteria in that provision and not affected by a change in that student's immigration or residency status in a subsequent academic year. The bill would express a legislative finding and declaration that its provisions are declaratory of existing law. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 68130.8 is added to the Education Code, to read: 68130.8. A student's exemption from nonresident tuition for an academic year pursuant to Section 68130.5 shall be determined solely on the basis of the criteria in Section 68130.5, and shall not be affected by a change in that student's immigration or residency status in a subsequent academic year. SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that Section 68130.8 of the Education Code, as added by Section 1 of this act, is declaratory of existing law.