Public postsecondary education: tuition and fees: Team USA student athletes.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about costs or impacts on all public colleges and universities in California.

Team USA Student Athletes' Tuition and Fees

This law removes a deadline that would have ended special resident status for Team USA student athletes training in California, allowing them to pay the same tuition as other residents indefinitely.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the July 1, 2032, end date for a rule that lets Team USA student athletes who train in approved programs in California pay resident tuition and fees.

Who It Names or Affects

• Team USA student athletes who train in approved programs in California

Terms To Know

resident classification

A status that allows students to pay lower tuition rates at public schools.

state-mandated local program

A program where the state requires local agencies or school districts to do something, and may need to reimburse them for costs.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much it will cost the state to extend resident status to more student athletes.
• It is unclear if all community college districts will be affected equally by this change.

Official Summary Text

AB 2436, as introduced, Fong.
Public postsecondary education: tuition and fees: Team USA student athletes.
The Donahoe Higher Education Act establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in the state.
Existing law establishes uniform residency requirements for purposes of ascertaining the amount of tuition and fees to be paid by students of public postsecondary education institutions. Existing law, until July 1, 2032, entitles a Team USA student athlete, as defined, who trains in the state in an elite level program approved by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee to resident
classification for the purpose of determining tuition and fees. After July 1, 2032, existing law entitles an amateur student athlete in training at the United States Olympic Training Center in the City of Chula Vista to resident classification for that same purpose. These provisions apply to the University of California only to the extent that the regents, by appropriate resolution, make them applicable.
This bill would remove the July 1, 2032, sunset provision, and make conforming changes, thereby extending the provisions that entitle a Team USA student athlete who trains in the state in an elite level program approved by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee to resident classification indefinitely. To the extent the bill would require community college districts to exempt more students from nonresident tuition, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution
requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Current Bill Text

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