SECTIONS 66800-66804 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 66800-66804

66800. The Legislature recognizes that existing community colleges
in California may benefit from larger and more heterogeneous
enrollment in certain curricula and that additional enrollment may
often be added with little or no increase in the total operational
cost of a given curriculum. It also recognizes that California
residents can be provided more complete and more useful curricula in
many cases if the curricula is planned and offered on the basis of
the needs of an entire region.
The Legislature encourages California community college districts
and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to
include the educational needs of, and facilities available in,
territory adjacent to California in their planning and to make use of
those needs and facilities to the extent possible in the conduct of
community college education in California.

66801. (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges is authorized to enter into an interstate attendance
agreement with any statewide public agency of another state that is
responsible for public institutions of postsecondary education
providing the first two years of college instruction and that is an
agency of a state that is a party to the Western Interstate Compact
for Higher Education, for the exchange of residents, on a one-for-one
basis, for the purposes of instruction.
(b) (1) As an alternative to the procedure established in
subdivision (a), the board of governors may authorize the governing
board of a community college district to enter into an interstate
attendance agreement directly with the governing body of a public
institution of postsecondary education providing the first two years
of college instruction if the state in which the public institution
is situated borders California, is a party to the Western Interstate
Compact for Higher Education and the state is not represented by a
statewide public agency that is responsible for public institutions
of postsecondary education providing the first two years of college
instruction.
(2) Each agreement entered into under this subdivision shall
satisfy the requirements of subdivision (a), and shall become
effective once fully executed and approved by the governing board of
each participating district. There shall be no need to file a
resolution as described in Section 66802 or for any further action by
the board of governors. An interstate attendance agreement entered
into under this subdivision may be effective on or after July 1,
2003.
(c) The agreement shall contain terms as the board of governors
may adopt and that are consistent with the authority and
responsibility of California community college districts and the
community colleges they maintain. In no event shall an agreement
permit or require the entry of California residents into institutions
in another state on terms substantially different from those
governing the admission of residents of the other state to California
community colleges. These agreements shall contain the provision
that no additional state funds shall be required to carry out the
provisions of this chapter.

66802. The governing board of each California community college
district is authorized to participate in an interstate attendance
agreement entered into by the board of governors. The governing board
of a California community college district elects to participate by
adopting a resolution to that effect and filing that resolution with
the board of governors. The participation may be limited in any
manner which is consistent with terms of the interstate attendance
agreement in which the district desires to participate.

66803. If the governing board of a California community college
district elects to participate in an interstate attendance agreement,
it may waive, as a condition to such participation, all or part of
the nonresident tuition required by Section 76140 in accordance with
the terms of that interstate attendance agreement. Such a waiver
shall apply only to students attending a community college maintained
by that district pursuant to the provisions of that interstate
attendance agreement.

66804. The board of governors may adopt rules and regulations to
implement the provisions of this article as these provisions apply to
California community college districts or to the State of
California. Such rules and regulations shall contain the provision
that no additional state funds shall be required to carry out the
provisions of this chapter.