Thread: ALIPAC launches Support Amendment 3 No in-state tuition!

ALIPAC launches ‘Support Amendment 3’ Campaign. NC Senate passes budget that would reverse in-state tuition allowance for illegals!

For Immediate Release Monday, May 9 2005
Contact: William Gheen
President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
(866) 329-3999
WilliamG@alipac.us www.Alipac.us

North Carolinian’s recently discovered that illegal aliens could attend their community colleges at tax subsidized in-state tuition rates after only being in the country 12 months when Forsyth Community college made national news that they were going to admit illegals at in-state tuition rates. An amendment placed in the state budget by Senator Neil Hunt (R-Wake) last Thursday would close that loophole and secure in-state tuition access to only those “legally present�.

Senator Tony Rand called a recess when Amendment 3 was submitted by Senator Hunt. After the recess the Senate voted UNANIMOUSLY to include this provision in the budget bill which has now passed the Senate and is headed for the House.

“We need to make sure that only North Carolina Citizens qualify for in-state tuition. It’s kind of a ‘No-Brainer’�, says Senator Hunt.

Amendment 3 adds the language “who is lawfully present in the United States� & “who remains lawfully within the United States� the General Statutes regarding Community College tuition rates (Section 8.13. G.S. 115D-39)

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) has organized citizen lobbying efforts that have helped to place HB 1183 (in-state tuition for illegals in the UNC system) into the legislative “Dead political Duck� category and will now focus attention on protecting Amendment 3. Although the amendment has the support of the entire Senate, pro-illegal alien legislators may try to remove the language in the House.

“We need to bring public attention to the amendment and raise awareness on what it will do to secure our community colleges,� says William Gheen. “We are launching the ‘Support Amendment 3’ campaign immediately to protect this part of the budget bill in the house. Legislators need to know it is there and what it means to North Carolina’s legal citizens that overwhelmingly oppose illegal aliens receiving in-state tuition rates. It looks like Forsyth Community College may have to change its ways.�

THE ‘SUPPORT AMENDMENT 3’ CAMPAIGN WILL BEGIN TUESDAY MORNING MAY 10. ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE!




Paid for by Americans for Legal Immigration
AMERICANS FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION PAC
Post Office Box 30966
Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
(919) 787-6009
Toll Free: (866) 329-3999
FEC ID: C00405878

Senator Hunt's amendment 3

ADOPTED and headed for the House in the budget bill


moves to amend the bill on page 72, line 19, by adding the following:
"Requested by: Senator Hunt
COMMUNITY COLLEGE TUITION LANGUAGE
SECTION 8.13. G.S. 115D-39 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115D 39. Student tuition and fees.
(a) The State Board of Community Colleges shall fix and regulate all tuition and fees charged to students for applying to or attending any institution pursuant to this Chapter.
The receipts from all student tuition and fees, other than student activity fees, shall be State funds and shall be deposited as provided by regulations of the State Board of Community Colleges.
The legal resident limitation with respect to tuition, set forth in G.S. 116 143.1 and G.S. 116 143.3, shall apply to students attending institutions operating pursuant to this Chapter; provided, however, that when an employer other than the armed services, as that term is defined in G.S. 116 143.3, pays tuition for an employee who is lawfully present in the United States to attend an institution operating pursuant to this Chapter and when the employee works at a North Carolina business location, the employer shall be charged the in State tuition rate; provided further, however, a community college may charge in State tuition to up to one percent (1%) of its out of state students, rounded up to the next whole number, to accommodate the families transferred by business, the families transferred by industry, or the civilian families transferred by the military, consistent with the provisions of G.S. 116 143.3, into the State. Notwithstanding these requirements, a refugee who lawfully entered the United States, who remains lawfully within the United States, and who is living in this State shall be deemed to qualify as a domiciliary of this State under G.S. 116 143.1(a)(1) and as a State resident for community college tuition purposes as defined in G.S. 116 143.1(a)(2). "
(b) In addition, any person lawfully admitted to the United States, and who remains lawfully present in the United States, and who satisfied the qualifications for assignment to a public school set out under G.S. 115C 366 and graduated from the public school to which the student was assigned shall also be eligible for the State resident community college tuition rate. This subsection does not make a person a resident of North Carolina for any other purpose.
(c) In addition, a person sponsored under this subsection who is lawfully admitted to the United States and who remains lawfully present is eligible for the State resident community college tuition rate. For purposes of this subsection, a North Carolina nonprofit entity is a charitable or religious corporation as defined in G.S. 55A 1 40 that is incorporated in North Carolina and that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a civic league incorporated in North Carolina under Chapter 55A of the General Statutes that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. A nonresident of the United States is sponsored by a North Carolina nonprofit entity if the student resides in North Carolina while attending the community college and the North Carolina nonprofit entity provides a signed affidavit to the community college verifying that the entity accepts financial responsibility for the student's tuition and any other required educational fees. Any North Carolina nonprofit entity that sponsors a nonresident of the United States under this subsection may sponsor no more than five nonresident students annually under this subsection. This subsection does not make a person a resident of North Carolina for any other purpose."