Bill Text: CA AB2064 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2064 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2064-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2064	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Travis Allen

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to add Section 66025.4 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2064, as introduced, Travis Allen. 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.
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
specifies 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 each
incoming first-year class. The bill would prohibit the tuition and
mandatory systemwide fees set for an incoming first-year class under
the bill from being increased for that class, except as specified.
The bill would provide that the exceptions do not apply to a student
during the time the student is taking a leave of absence to serve in
the military.
   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 66025.4 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66025.4.  (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 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 that class,
except under either or both of the following scenarios:
   (1) At least four academic years have passed.
   (2) 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.
   (b) The exceptions in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) do
not apply to a student during the time the student is taking a leave
of absence to serve in the military.