SB 916: Public postsecondary education: waiver of tuition and fees: veterans: extended education courses.

Existing law establishes the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in the state. The Donahoe Higher Education Act prohibits the campuses of those segments from charging mandatory systemwide tuition or fees to specified students who apply for a waiver, including a child of any veteran of the United States military who has a service-connected disability, has been killed in service, or has died of a service-connected disability, an undergraduate student who is a recipient of a Medal of Honor, or an undergraduate student who is a child of a recipient of a Medal of Honor and who is no more than 27 years old, of age, if certain requirements are satisfied.

This bill would additionally prohibit the campuses of the 3 segments of public postsecondary education University of California and California State University from charging tuition or fees for specified students who enroll in an extended education course if certain requirements are satisfied and the extended education course is being used to meet the requirements of an undergraduate degree program. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on community college districts, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program. The bill would apply to the campuses of the University of California only to the extent that the regents, Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make it apply.