LRB-1379/P1
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2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Boggs, BB0335 - Repeal nonresident tuition exemptions
For 2011-13 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Higher education
Current law allows the Board of Regents of the UW System to charge different tuition rates to resident and nonresident students. Current law also includes nonresident tuition exemptions, under which certain nonresident students pay resident tuition rates. One of the exemptions applies to an alien who is not a legal permanent resident of the United States and who: 1) graduated from a Wisconsin high school or received a declaration of equivalency of high school graduation from Wisconsin; 2) was continuously present in Wisconsin for at least three years following the first day of attending a Wisconsin high school or immediately preceding receipt of a declaration of equivalency of high school graduation; and 3) enrolls in a UW System institution and provides the institution with an affidavit stating that he or she has filed or will file an application for permanent residency with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as soon as the person is eligible to do so. This bill eliminates the foregoing nonresident tuition exemption.
Current law also provides that an alien described above is considered a resident of this state for purposes of admission to and payment of fees at a technical college. This bill eliminates that provision.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 36.27 (2) (cr) of the statutes is repealed.
Section 2. 38.22 (6) (e) of the statutes is repealed.
Section 9346. Initial applicability; Technical College System.
(1) Tuition exemption for aliens. The treatment of section 38.22 (6) (e) of the statutes first applies to persons who enroll for the semester or session following the effective date of this subsection.
Section 9352. Initial applicability; University of Wisconsin System.
(1) Tuition exemption for aliens. The treatment of section 36.27 (2) (cr) of the statutes first applies to persons who enroll for the semester or session following the effective date of this subsection.
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