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(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no mandatory systemwide fees or tuition of any kind shall be required of or collected by the Regents of the University of California, the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, or the Trustees of the California State University from any surviving spouse or surviving child of a deceased person who met all of the following requirements:
  (1) He or she was a resident of this state.
  (2) He or she was employed by a public agency, or was a contractor, or an employee of a contractor, performing services for a public agency.
  (3) His or her principal duties consisted of active law enforcement service or active fire suppression and prevention. This section shall not apply to a person whose principal duties were clerical, even if he or she was subject to occasional call or was occasionally called upon to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement or active fire suppression and prevention.
  (4) He or she was killed in the performance of active law enforcement or active fire suppression and prevention duties, or died as a result of an accident or an injury caused by external violence or physical force, incurred in the performance of his or her active law enforcement or active fire suppression and prevention duties.
  (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a person who qualifies for the waiver of mandatory systemwide fees and tuition under this section as a surviving child of a contractor, or of an employee of a contractor, who performed services for a public agency shall, in addition to the requirements set forth in subdivision (a), meet both of the following requirements:
  (1) Enrollment as an undergraduate student at a campus of the University of California or the California State University.
  (2) Documentation that his or her annual income, including the value of any support received from a parent, does not exceed the maximum household income and asset level for an applicant for a Cal Grant B award, as set forth in Section 69432.7.
  (c) As used in this section:
  (1) "Contractor" or "employee of a contractor" does not include a security guard or security officer, as defined in Section 7582.1 of the Business and Professions Code.
  (2) "Public agency" means the state or any city, city and county, county, district, or other local authority or public body of or within the state.
  (3) "Surviving child" means either of the following:
  (A) A surviving natural or adopted child of the deceased person.
  (B) A surviving stepchild who meets both of the following requirements:
  (i) He or she was living or domiciled with the deceased person at the time of his or her death.
  (ii) He or she was claimed on the tax form most recently filed by the deceased person prior to that person's death, or he or she received 50 percent or more of his or her support from that deceased person in the tax year immediately preceding the death of the deceased person, or both.

Any determination of eligibility pursuant to Section 68120 shall be consistent with any findings of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, using the same procedures as in workers' compensation hearings, as to whether the death of the person described under subdivision (a) of that section was industrial.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no mandatory systemwide fees or tuition of any kind shall be required or collected by the Regents of the University of California or the Trustees of the California State University, from a student who is in an undergraduate program and who is the surviving dependent of any individual killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon building in Washington, DC, or the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in southwestern Pennsylvania, if he or she meets the financial need requirements set forth in Section 69432.7 for the Cal Grant A Program and either of the following apply:
  (1) The surviving dependent was a resident of California on September 11, 2001.
  (2) The individual killed in the attacks was a resident of California on September 11, 2001.
  (b) (1) The California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board shall identify all persons who are eligible for tuition and fee waivers pursuant to this section or subdivision (j) of Section 76300. That board shall notify these persons or, in the case of minors, the parents or guardians of these persons, of their eligibility for tuition and fee waivers under these provisions. This notification shall be in writing, and shall be received by all of the appropriate persons no later than July 1, 2003.
  (2) The Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California and the governing board of each community college district in the state shall waive tuition and fees, as specified in this section and in subdivision (j) of Section 76300, for any person who can demonstrate eligibility. If requested by the California State University, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, or a California Community College, the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, on a case-by-case basis, shall confirm the eligibility of persons requesting the waiver of tuition and fees, as provided for in this section.
  (c) A determination of whether a person is a resident of California on September 11, 2001, shall be based on the criteria set forth in this chapter for determining nonresident and resident tuition.
  (d) (1) "Dependent," for purposes of this section, is a person who, because of his or her relationship to an individual killed as a result of injuries sustained during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, qualifies for compensation under the federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 (Title IV (commencing with Section 401) of Public Law 107-42).
  (2) A dependent who is the surviving spouse of an individual killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, is entitled to the waivers provided in this section until January 1, 2013.
  (3) A dependent who is the surviving child, natural or adopted, of an individual killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, is entitled to the waivers under this section until that person obtains the age of 30 years.
  (4) A dependent of an individual killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, who is determined to be eligible by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, is also entitled to the waivers provided in this section until January 1, 2013.

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, students who are victims of trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes who have been granted a status under Section 1101(a)(15)(T)(i) or (ii), or Section 1101(a)(15)(U)(i) or (ii), of Title 8 of the United States Code shall be exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges to the same extent as individuals who are admitted to the United States as refugees under Section 1157 of Title 8 of the United States Code.
  (b) The University of California is requested to adopt policies that are consistent with this section.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Trustees of the California State University may enter into agreements with other universities or colleges located within the state whereby qualified students from campuses of the California State University may attend the other universities or colleges without payment of some or all fees or tuition, or both, charged by the other institutions, and students from the other institutions may attend campuses of the California State University without payment of some or all of the fees or tuition, or both, charged by the state university. During any year, however, the number of students attending campuses of the California State University from other universities or colleges, pursuant to the agreements entered in between the Trustees of the California State University and other universities and colleges, shall not exceed the number of students of the California State University attending the other institutions.

The trustees may enter into agreements with public colleges and universities in other states whereby qualified students from the California State University may attend the other college or university without payment of any tuition fee charged by that institution to persons who are nonresidents of the state in which it is situate, and students from that institution may attend the California State University without payment of the nonresident tuition established pursuant to Section 89705. No nonresident tuition shall be charged of students attending a campus of the California State University pursuant to an agreement entered into under this section. During any year, however, the number of students attending the California State University from a particular public college or university in another state, pursuant to the agreement, shall not exceed the number of the California State University students attending the institution under that agreement.