AB 785

Current law allows the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin (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. Under former law, one of the

exemptions applied 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.

2011 Wisconsin Act 32

eliminated

the foregoing exemption. This bill restores the exemption.

Former law also provided that an alien described above was considered a

resident of this state for purposes of admission to and payment of fees at a technical

college.

2011 Wisconsin Act 32

also eliminated the foregoing provision. This bill

restores the provision.