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Panel advances Patterson bill to extend CalVet tuition waiver to campus-level mandatory fees for dependents of eligible veterans
Summary
AB 556, introduced by Assemblymember Patterson, would clarify that the existing CalVet tuition-and-fee waiver for dependents of disabled or fallen veterans covers campus-level mandatory fees currently charged by CSU and other campuses. Proponents said campus fees can total thousands and that some campuses have excluded mandatory campus fees;
Assemblymember Patterson presented AB 556 to clarify that the state's CalVet tuition waiver for dependents of certain veterans should cover campus-level mandatory fees that some campuses currently exclude.
Patterson said the bill restores what the author described as the original legislative intent that dependents of disabled veterans or those killed in action not be charged tuition or campus-level mandatory fees. "My constituents brought this idea to me," Patterson said, introducing…
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