Bill Text: CA SB1461 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 1461 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: tuition and mandatory

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-24 - Held in committee and under submission. [SB1461 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1461-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 1461	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 26, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Negrete McLeod

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 66025.2 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1461, as amended, Negrete McLeod. Public postsecondary
education: tuition and mandatory systemwide fees.
   Existing law establishes the California State University, under
the administration of the Trustees of the California State
University, and the University of California, under the
administration of the Regents of the University of California, as 2
of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state.

   This bill would require the trustees, and would request the
regents, to determine the amounts of undergraduate tuition and
mandatory systemwide fees for each incoming first-year class. The
bill would require that the tuition and mandatory systemwide fees set
for an incoming first-year class under the bill would not be
increased for at least 4 academic years, except as adjusted for
inflation as specified.  
   This bill would prohibit the trustees, and request the regents to
refrain, from increasing the mandatory systemwide fees charged to
resident undergraduate students by a specified amount in an academic
year in which funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act to the
applicable institution for purposes of enrollment growth and a
cost-of-living adjustment, as specified. 
   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 66025.2 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   66025.2.  (a) (1) The Trustees of the California State University
shall not, and the Regents of the University of California are
requested not to, increase the mandatory systemwide fees charged to
resident undergraduate students by an amount that exceeds the
percentage calculated pursuant to paragraph (2) of the mandatory
systemwide fees charged to those students for the immediately
preceding academic year.
   (2) The percentage used pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be 2
percent more than the percentage change in the California per capita
personal income from the prior fiscal year.
   (b) If the percentage change in the California per capita personal
income, as determined pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a),
is negative, the California per capita personal income percentage
change shall be zero for purposes of calculating the amount the
trustees and the regents may increase mandatory systemwide fees
pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (c) The requirements of this section only shall apply in an
academic year in which funds are appropriated in the annual Budget
Act to the applicable institution for purposes of enrollment growth,
which is funded at the marginal cost of instruction as adjusted
annually, and a cost-of-living adjustment.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 66025.2 is added to the
Education Code, to read:
   66025.2.  (a) The Trustees of the California State University
shall, and the Regents of the University of California are requested
to, determine the amounts of undergraduate tuition and mandatory
systemwide fees for each incoming first-year class. The tuition and
mandatory systemwide fees set for an incoming first-year class under
this section shall not be increased for at least four academic years,
except as provided by subdivision (b).
   (b) The trustees and the regents may annually increase the tuition
and mandatory systemwide fee amounts determined under subdivision
(a) to reflect the percentage change, if any, in the Consumer Price
Index calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United
States Department of Labor during the previous academic year.