Bill Text: CA SB917 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: mandatory systemwide

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-21 - Set, second hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 2. Page 3294.) Reconsideration granted. [SB917 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB917-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 917	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Denham
   (Coauthor: Senator Yee)

                        FEBRUARY 1, 2010

   An act to add Section 66024.5 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 917, as introduced, Denham. Public postsecondary education:
mandatory systemwide fees: Student Protection Act.
   Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, provides
for a public postsecondary education system in this state. The
University of California and the California State University are 2 of
the segments of the public postsecondary education system. The
provisions of the Donahoe Higher Education Act apply to the
University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the
University of California act by resolution to make them applicable.
   Existing law authorizes the trustees of the California State
University to require that fees, among other charges, be paid by
students that institution. Existing provisions of the California
Constitution require the regents to have all powers necessary or
convenient for the effective administration of the university.
   This bill would enact the Student Protection Act, which would
require any increase in mandatory systemwide fees adopted by the
trustees to become effective at least 180 calendar days after the
date on which the increase is adopted. The bill would prohibit the
trustees from increasing mandatory systemwide fees, in any academic
year, by an amount exceeding 10% of the mandatory systemwide fees for
the immediately preceding academic year. The bill would request the
regents to adopt policies that are consistent with these provisions.

   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 66024.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66024.5.  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as
the Student Protection Act.
   (b) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any increase
in mandatory systemwide fees charged to the students of the
California State University that is adopted by the Trustees of the
California State University, shall become effective not less than 180
calendar days after the date of the adoption of the increase.
   (2) In any academic year, the Trustees of the California State
University shall not increase the mandatory systemwide fees charged
to students attending the university by an amount exceeding 10
percent of the mandatory systemwide fees for the immediately
preceding academic year.
   (c) The Regents of the University of California are requested to
adopt policies for increases in mandatory systemwide fees charged to
students attending the University of California that are consistent
with subdivision (b).