Public postsecondary education: residency: dependents of members of the Armed Forces: reenrollments.

Assembly Member DeMaio's proposal to amend California's Education Code addresses residency classifications for military dependents at public universities, extending existing protections to students who reenroll after withdrawing from their degree programs. The measure maintains resident tuition rates for dependents of service members who transfer out of state or retire from active duty, provided the student qualifies for reenrollment under current academic standing requirements.

The bill builds upon California's existing framework for military-connected students, which currently preserves resident classification for continuously enrolled dependents when their military family member receives transfer orders or retires. Under the proposed changes, this protection would apply equally to students who temporarily pause their studies and later return through established reenrollment processes at California State University campuses and, if adopted by the system, University of California institutions.

This modification aligns residency rules for returning military dependents with those for continuously enrolled students, creating uniform treatment across both enrollment patterns. The California State University system would implement these provisions through its existing residency classification procedures, while the University of California would retain its constitutional autonomy to determine whether to adopt parallel policies.