Plain English Breakdown
The official text states this is a request, not a requirement, for the University of California system to follow these rules.
Keeping In-State Tuition for Military Dependents Who Reenroll
This law ensures that dependents of military members keep their in-state tuition status if they reenroll after stopping out, even if the service member has moved away or retired.
What This Bill Does
- Extends current rules protecting resident classification to students who are granted the right to reenroll after withdrawing or stopping out.
- Prevents these students from losing their in-state tuition status if their parent or spouse is transferred on military orders outside California or retires from active duty.
Who It Names or Affects
- Dependents of U.S. Armed Forces members who are granted the right to reenroll at public postsecondary institutions.
- Students whose service member family has been transferred out of state on military orders while continuing to serve, or has retired from active duty.
Terms To Know
- Resident classification
- A status that determines the amount of tuition and fees a student must pay at public colleges.
- Reenroll
- The right to sign up for classes again in a baccalaureate degree program after withdrawing or stopping out, provided the student was previously in good academic standing.
Limits and Unknowns
- This rule only applies if the student is granted the existing legal right to reenroll.
- The law requires California State University campuses and requests that University of California campuses follow this rule, but does not mandate it for all institutions.