BILL NUMBER: AB 138	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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 introduced, 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 until that
class has completed at least 4 academic years.
   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.  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 until that incoming
first-year class has completed at least four academic years.