Bill Text: CA AB69 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Postsecondary education: enrollment growth.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB69 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB69-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 69	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Duvall

                        DECEMBER 12, 2008

   An act to repeal and add Section 66025 of the Eduction Code,
relating to postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 69, as introduced, Duvall. Statewide student fee policy.
   Existing law provides for a public postsecondary education system
in this state. This system includes the University of California,
which is administered by the Regents of the University of California,
and the California State University, which is administered by the
Trustees of the California State University. Existing law authorizes
the segments of the public postsecondary education system to charge
various fees to their students.
   This bill would delete a provision that required the systemwide
fees and tuition charged to resident undergraduate students at the
University of California and the California State University to be
reduced in the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 fiscal years.
   The bill would require, notwithstanding any law, commencing with
the 2010-11 fiscal year, the level of mandatory systemwide fees and
tuition for undergraduate students at the University of California
and the California State University to be set over a 4-year period in
order to allow students at these institutions to budget accordingly
for the entirety of their education. The bill would provide that the
University of California and the California State University have the
discretion to establish the set level of mandatory systemwide fees
and tuition. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature
that the level of student fees for undergraduate students at the
University of California and the California State University also be
set over a 4-year period. The bill would apply to the University of
California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of
California act, by resolution, to make its provisions applicable.
   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 66025 of the Education Code is repealed.

   66025.  (a) Systemwide fees charged to resident undergraduate
students at the University of California and the California State
University shall be reduced for the 1998-99 fiscal year by 5 percent
below the level charged during the 1997-98 fiscal year, and the
systemwide fees charged to those students for the 1999-2000 fiscal
year shall be reduced by 5 percent below the level charged during the
1998-99 fiscal year. Systemwide education and registration fees
charged to resident graduate students at the University of California
and the California State University for the 1999-2000 fiscal year
shall be reduced by 5 percent below the level charged those resident
students for the 1997-98 fiscal year. This subdivision does not apply
to resident students pursuing a course of study leading to a
professional degree who are subject to a supplemental fee pursuant to
the policy of the University of California.
   (b) No provision of this section shall apply to the University of
California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of
California, by appropriate resolution, make that provision
applicable. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 66025 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   66025.  (a) Notwithstanding any law, commencing with the 2010-11
fiscal year, the level of mandatory systemwide fees and tuition for
undergraduate students at the University of California and the
California State University shall be set over a four-year period in
order to allow students at these institutions to budget accordingly
for the entirety of their education.
   (b) The University of California and the California State
University shall have the discretion to establish the set level of
fees and tuition established in subdivision (a).
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the level of student
fees for undergraduate students at the University of California and
the California State University also be set over a four-year period
to allow students to budget accordingly.
   (d) No provision of this section shall apply to the University of
California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of
California, by appropriate resolution, make that provision
applicable.