Bill Text: CA AB2153 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Postsecondary education: course offerings.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-25 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2153 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB2153-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2153 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 23, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 29, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 8, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gray
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
An act to amend Section 89708 of the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2153, as amended, Gray. Postsecondary education: course
offerings.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under
the administration of the Trustees of the California State
University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education
in this state. Existing law requires that self-supporting sessions at
the university, known as special sessions, not supplant regular
course offerings available on a non-self-supporting basis during the
regular academic year.
This bill would require that special session program
course offerings not supplant or limit the number of regular course
offerings that receive state funding at a campus of the university,
define "supplant" for these purposes, and would
require, to the extent possible, that each campus ensure that a
course required as a condition of degree completion for a
matriculated student be offered as a state-supported course. The bill
would require that a matriculated student, who is required to enroll
in a special session course in order to complete his or her
undergraduate degree because the state-supported version of that
course is unavailable in the academic year, pay the lesser of the
state-supported and special session course fee. The bill would
constrain the addition os of
self-supporting special session sections of courses and the timing of
special session programs, as specified, unless
except as specified. The bill would allow a campus to
add self-supporting sections, add an undergra duate
degree program, or increase self-supporting sections only if
the campus receives approval from the Chancellor of the California
State University and certain conditions are satisfied. The bill would
require the chancellor to provide guidance to campuses regarding how
to comply with this bill, and would require the trustees to
annually certify compliance with these conditions.
bill.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 89708 of the Education Code is amended to read:
89708. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), tuition fees
adequate, in the long run, to meet the cost of maintaining special
sessions in the California State University shall be required of, and
collected from, students enrolled in each special session under and
pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the trustees.
(b) (1) "Special sessions," as used in this division, means
self-supporting instructional programs conducted by the California
State University. The special sessions shall include, but not be
limited to, career enrichment and retraining programs. It is the
intent of the Legislature that those programs, currently offered on a
self-supporting basis by the California State University during
summer sessions, may be provided throughout the year, and shall be
known as special sessions.
(2) The self-supporting special sessions shall not supplant
regular course offerings available on a state-supported basis during
the regular academic year.
(3) For the purposes of this section, a special session course
"supplants" a state-supported course when an undergraduate
matriculated student is required to take a more expensive special
session course to graduate because a state-supported section of that
course is unavailable either because the state-supported course is
not offered that term and the course is offered in a special
session, or because all state-supported sections of the
course are full during the academic year at the student's
campus and the course is offered in a special session .
(c) To the extent possible, each campus shall ensure that any
course required as a condition of undergraduate degree completion for
a matriculated student shall be offered as a state-supported course.
A matriculated student who is required to take a special session
course to complete his or her undergraduate degree because a
state-supported section of that course is unavailable in the academic
year at the student's campus shall pay the lesser of the
state-supported section and special session course fee. In complying
with this subdivision, the campus shall ensure, to the extent
possible, that general fund money is not used to support a
matriculated student's enrollment in a special session program,
section, or course.
(d) Except as provided in subdivision (g), officials of a campus
shall not reduce the number of state-supported sections of an
undergraduate course offering while increasing the number of sections
of the self-supporting version of that course.
(e) Except as provided in subdivision (g), officials of a campus
shall not offer special session programs at that campus at times or
in locations that limit the number of regular course offerings that
receive state funding.
(f) (1) Except as provided in paragraph
(2) and subdivision (g), the number of special session
sections of any individual course, including online courses, shall
not exceed the number of state-supported sections of that course at a
campus.
(2) Special session sections offered as of January 1, 2015, of any
individual course, including online courses, shall not be considered
for purposes of paragraph (1).
(g) With approval from the Chancellor's office, a campus may add a
self-supporting section of a course in a state-supported
undergraduate degree program, add an undergraduate degree program, or
increase the number of self-supporting sections of an undergraduate
course offering so long as all of the following are satisfied:
(1) The campus has made the determination that state resources are
inadequate to provide for additional state-supported sections.
(2) There is no corresponding reduction in the aggregate number of
state-supported course offerings on that campus. However, this
paragraph applies only to an academic year for which the annual
Budget Act has not reduced the budget of the California State
University from the prior year's funding level.
(3) The self-supporting section or sections comply with all
applicable state laws and systemwide and campus policies.
(h) The chancellor shall provide guidance to the campuses
regarding how to comply with this section. The trustees
shall annually certify compliance with this section at a regular
meeting of the board and shall transmit that certification to the
Legislature no later than June 30 of each academic year.
SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature that the California
State University shall receive funding sufficient to provide core
curriculum through state-supported academic programs, that a
matriculated student of the California State University is entitled
to a postsecondary education within the bounds of a state-supported
tuition and fee structure, and that a campus of the California State
University is able to ensure that a student is not required to enroll
in a special session program, section, or course in order to receive
his or her postsecondary education in a timely manner.
