Bill Text: CA SB472 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 472 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: Campus Free Expression Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB472 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB472-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 472

Introduced by Senator Nielsen

February 16, 2017

An act relating to postsecondary education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 472, as introduced, Nielsen. Postsecondary education.

Existing law establishes the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the University of California as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation discouraging the restriction of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and other rights protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution at public colleges and universities.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation discouraging the restriction of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and other rights protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution at public colleges and universities.