Bill Text: CA AB138 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: undergraduate tuition and mandatory systemwide fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB138 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB138-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 138	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Olsen
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian and Wilk)

                        JANUARY 16, 2013

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 138, as amended, Olsen. Public postsecondary education:
undergraduate 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.
Existing law authorizes these segments to charge students tuition and
mandatory systemwide fees, among other charges, for attendance at
these institutions. The existing Donahoe Higher Education Act
requires that none of its provisions applies to the University of
California except to the extent that the regents, by appropriate
resolution, make that provision applicable.
   This bill would add to the Donahoe Higher Education Act a
provision requiring the trustees, and the regents if they act by
appropriate resolution as referenced above, to determine the amounts
of undergraduate tuition and mandatory systemwide fees for California
residents in each incoming first-year class in their respective
segments. The bill would require that the tuition and mandatory
systemwide fees set for California residents in each incoming
first-year class under the bill would not be increased  , other
than to make a cost-of-living adjustment not to exceed 2% after each
academic year,  until that class has completed at least 4
academic years.  The bill would prohibit the trustees and the
regents from increasing the amount of undergraduate tuition and
mandatory systemwide fees for California residents charged to an
incoming first-year class in their respective segm   ents by
more than 5% over the amounts charged to the immediately preceding
first-year class. 
   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)    Subject to Section 67400, the
Trustees of the California State University and the Regents of the
University of California shall determine the amounts of undergraduate
tuition and mandatory systemwide fees for California residents in
each incoming first-year class in their respective segments, and the
tuition and mandatory systemwide fees set for California residents in
each incoming first-year class shall not be increased  , other
than to make a cost-of-living adjustment not   to exceed 2
percent after each academic year, until that incoming first-year
class has completed at least four academic years. 
   (b) The trustees and regents shall not increase the amount of
undergraduate tuition and mandatory systemwide fees for California
residents charged to an incoming first-year class in their respective
segments by more than 5 percent over the amounts charged to the
immediately preceding first-year class.