Bill Text: CA AB2736 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Postsecondary education: California State University.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)
Status: (Passed) 2014-09-20 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 511, Statutes of 2014. [AB2736 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB2736-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2736 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 511
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 20, 2014
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 20, 2014
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 18, 2014
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 27, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 26, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 9, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 22, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Committee on Higher Education (Assembly Members
Williams (Chair), Chávez (Vice Chair), Bloom, Fong, Jones-Sawyer,
Levine, Linder, Medina, Olsen, Quirk-Silva, Weber, and Wilk)
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
An act to amend Sections 89007.7, 89282, 89300, and 89720 of the
Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2736, Committee on Higher Education. Postsecondary education:
California State University.
(1) 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, commencing on January 1, 2014,
and every 2 years thereafter, that the Legislative Analyst's Office,
in consultation with the university, submit a report to the
Legislature including specified data relating to the California State
University Early Start Program. Existing law makes these provisions
regarding the Early Start Program inoperative on January 1, 2018.
This bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit
that report no later than July 1 of each even-numbered year, and
change the inoperative date for the above provisions regarding the
Early Start Program to July 1, 2018.
(2) Existing law authorizes the California State University to
establish a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree pilot program at 3
campuses chosen by the trustees to award the Doctor of Nursing
Practice degree. Existing law requires the university, the
Legislative Analyst's Office, and the Department of Finance to
jointly conduct a statewide evaluation of the degree pilot program
and report the results to the Legislature and the Governor on or
before January 1, 2017. Existing law requires that evaluation to
consider specified information, including the number of Doctor of
Nursing Practice degree pilot programs implemented, and information
regarding the number of applicants, admissions, enrollments, degree
recipients, time-to-degree, attrition, and public school and
community college program partners.
This bill would delete the requirement that the evaluation include
information regarding public school and community college program
partners, make nonsubstantive changes to these evaluation provisions,
and repeal these evaluation provisions on January 1, 2021.
(3) Existing law provides that a student body organization may be
established at any campus of the California State University under
the supervision of the university officials for the purpose of
providing essential activities closely related to, but not normally
included as a part of, the regular instructional program of the
university. Existing law authorizes the trustees to fix fees for
voluntary membership in an organization established at a campus, and
sets forth specified requirements for the setting of mandatory
student body organization membership fees for student body
organizations established at a campus.
This bill would authorize the trustees to fix a fee for voluntary
membership in a specified statewide student body organization. This
bill would require the trustees to provide students the ability to
affirmatively elect to pay the fee, or a clear and unambiguous means
to decline payment of the fee, each time the fee is assessed.
(4) Existing law authorizes the trustees to accept on behalf of
the state any gifts, bequests, devises, or donations of real property
whenever the gift and terms and conditions thereof will aid in
carrying out the primary functions of the California State
University. Existing law authorizes the trustees to sell or exchange
real property interests in accordance with specified requirements.
Existing law requires these gifts, bequests, devises, donations of
real property, or sales or exchanges of real property interests to be
annually reported to the California Postsecondary Education
Commission, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the
Department of Finance by January 5 of each year.
This bill would change that annual reporting date to January 31 of
each year, and would provide for the report to be made to a
successor agency to the California Postsecondary Education Commission
as an alternative to the commission.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 89007.7 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
89007.7. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the
California State University Early Start Program was adopted pursuant
to Executive Order No. 1048 at the May 2010 meeting of the Trustees
of the California State University (CSU) with the stated goal of
facilitating a student's graduation through changes in policies on
fulfilling entry-level proficiencies in mathematics and English.
(b) Commencing on January 1, 2014, and on or before July 1 every
even-numbered year thereafter, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in
consultation with CSU, shall submit a report to the Legislature
detailing the impact of the CSU Early Start Program on student
mathematics and English proficiency. The report to the Legislature
required by this subdivision shall include, but not necessarily be
limited to, all of the following:
(1) Information on how the CSU Early Start Program increases
successful remediation rates as compared to the remediation rates
that existed in the 2010-11 academic year.
(2) Information on how the CSU Early Start Program expedites the
student remediation process, or otherwise reduces the length of time
that students spend on remediation.
(3) Demographic information on participants in the CSU Early Start
Program, including information relating to race or ethnicity,
eligibility for financial aid, geographic origins, and other
pertinent data.
(4) The number of enrollees in the CSU Early Start Program,
counted statewide and by campus, including the number who eventually
earned credit from the program.
(5) As observed one year after participating in the CSU Early
Start Program, counted statewide and by campus, how many enrollees
became proficient, how many did not remediate successfully, and how
many were disenrolled from CSU.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until July 1, 2018,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
is enacted before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends that date.
SEC. 2. Section 89282 of the Education Code is amended to read:
89282. (a) The California State University (CSU), the Legislative
Analyst's Office, and the Department of Finance shall jointly
conduct a statewide evaluation of CSU Doctor of Nursing Practice
degree pilot programs authorized pursuant to Section 89281 and
implemented under this article. The results of the evaluation shall
be reported, in writing, to the Legislature and the Governor on or
before January 1, 2017. The evaluation shall consider all of the
following:
(1) The number of Doctor of Nursing Practice degree pilot programs
implemented, including information regarding the number of
applicants, admissions, enrollments, degree recipients,
time-to-degree, and attrition.
(2) The extent to which the post-master's degree pilot programs
are fulfilling identified state needs for training doctorally
prepared nurses.
(3) Statewide supply and demand data that considers capacity at
the University of California and in California's independent colleges
and universities.
(4) Information on the place of employment of students and the
subsequent job placement of graduates.
(5) Any available evidence on the effects that the graduates of
the degree pilot program are having on addressing the state's nursing
shortage.
(6) Pilot program costs and the fund sources that were used to
finance the program, including a calculation of cost per degree
awarded.
(7) The costs of the degree pilot program to students, the amount
of financial aid offered, and student debt levels of graduates of the
program.
(8) The extent to which the degree pilot program is in compliance
with the requirements of this article.
(9) Recommendations for the degree pilot program, including
whether the program should be continued or modified.
(b) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2021, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2021, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 3. Section 89300 of the Education Code is amended to read:
89300. (a) A student body organization may be established at any
state university under the supervision of the university officials
for the purpose of providing essential activities closely related to,
but not normally included as a part of, the regular instructional
program of the university. The organization may also operate a campus
store, a cafeteria, and other projects not inconsistent with the
purposes of the university, and property of the university may be
leased to the organization for those purposes.
(b) (1) The trustees may fix fees for voluntary membership in the
organization established at a state university.
(2) (A) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if a student body
organization is established at any state university, upon the
favorable vote of two-thirds of the students voting in an election
held for this purpose, in a manner that the trustees shall prescribe,
and open to all regular students enrolled in the university, the
trustees shall fix a membership fee which shall be required of all
regular, limited, and special session students attending the
university. No fees shall be charged to students registering solely
in extension classes.
(B) The trustees may approve an increase or decrease in the
student body fee only after the fee increase or decrease has been
approved by a majority of students voting in a referendum established
for that purpose.
(C) The required fee shall be subject to referendum at any time
upon the presentation of a petition to the president of the
university containing the signatures of 10 percent of the regularly
enrolled students at the university. A successful referendum shall
take effect with the beginning of the academic year following that in
which the election was held.
(D) Payment of membership fees pursuant to this section shall be a
prerequisite to enrollment in the university, except that if
sufficient funds are available, any state university student, subject
to the regulations of the trustees establishing standards in that
regard, may agree to work off the amount of the fee at the prevailing
rate of the university for student assistants. The trustees may
adopt regulations setting standards for determining which students
shall be eligible to work off the amount of the fee.
(c) The revenues raised pursuant to this section may, in addition
to expenditures for other lawful purposes involved in the operations
of the student body organization, be expended to provide for the
support of governmental affairs representatives who may be attending
upon the State Legislature or upon offices and agencies in the
executive branch of the state government.
(d) The trustees may fix a fee for voluntary membership in a
statewide student organization that represents the students of the
California State University and the student body organizations of the
campuses of the California State University. The trustees shall
provide students either the ability to affirmatively elect to pay
this fee, or a clear and unambiguous means to decline the payment of
this fee, each time the fee is assessed.
SEC. 4. Section 89720 of the Education Code is amended to read:
89720. The trustees may accept on behalf of the state any gift,
bequest, devise, or donation of real or personal property whenever
the gift and the terms and conditions thereof will aid in carrying
out the primary functions of the California State University as
specified in subdivision (b) of Section 66010.4. Neither Section
11005 of the Government Code nor any other law requiring approval by
a state officer of gifts, bequests, devises, or donations shall apply
to these gifts, bequests, devises, or donations. These gifts,
bequests, devises, or donations, and the disposition thereof, shall
be annually reported to the California Postsecondary Education
Commission, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the
Department of Finance by January 31 of each year.
Notwithstanding Sections 11005.2 and 14664 of the Government Code
or any other law to the contrary, the trustees may sell or exchange
interests in real property received pursuant to this section when, in
the judgment of the trustees, the sale or exchange is in the best
interests of the California State University. No sale or exchange of
an interest in real property made pursuant to this section shall
exceed ten million dollars ($10,000,000) per transaction.
Notwithstanding Sections 11005 and 15853 of the Government Code or
any other provision of law to the contrary, the trustees may
purchase interests in real property from moneys received pursuant to
this section, including those moneys received from the sale or
exchange of interests in real property pursuant to this section. Any
such purchase shall be consistent with any restrictions placed upon
the gift, bequest, devise, or donation and shall be in the best
interests of the California State University, as determined by the
trustees.
No interest in any real property that is part of a main campus of
any of the institutions of the California State University listed in
Section 89001 shall be sold or exchanged pursuant to this section.
Any sale or exchange of interests in real property carried out
pursuant to this section shall be reported annually to the California
Postsecondary Education Commission or a successor agency, the Joint
Legislative Budget Committee, and the Department of Finance, by
January 31 of each year.
