Bill Text: CA SB959 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Workers' compensation: provider reimbursement:

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-30 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Charles Calderon. [SB959 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 959	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Lieu and Yee
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Portantino)

                        JANUARY 10, 2012

   An act to amend Section 66602.5 of, and to add Section 89517.7 to,
the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 959, as introduced, Lieu. Public postsecondary education:
California State University: increases in tuition or fees:
compensation.
   Existing law establishes the California State University, under
the administration of the Trustees of the California State
University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education
in the state.
   Existing law, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Bagley-Keene
Act), generally requires, with specified exceptions for authorized
closed sessions, that the meetings of state bodies be open and public
and that all persons be permitted to attend. The Bagley-Keene Act
also generally requires that the agenda for meetings provide an
opportunity for members of the public to directly address the body of
any item of interest to the public that is within the subject matter
jurisdiction of the body. Each member of a state body who attends a
meeting of that body in violation of any provision of the
Bagley-Keene Act, and where the member intends to deprive the public
of information to which the member knows or has reason to know the
public is entitled under the act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Under
existing law, all meetings of the trustees are subject to the
Bagley-Keene Act, except with respect to the compensation of
designated executive officers of the university, which is required to
be acted upon in an open session.
   This bill would prohibit the trustees from acting to increase the
salary range of any university officer or employee or to increase the
tuition or mandatory systemwide fees of university students except
in an open public meeting properly noticed pursuant to the
Bagley-Keene Act.
   The bill would prohibit the trustees from awarding a president of
a campus compensation, as defined, that exceeds 150% of the
compensation of the Chief Justice of California, except if the
Governor, by executive order, approves the individual president's
compensation. The bill would prohibit the trustees from approving any
increase in compensation for a president of a campus if an increase
in tuition is scheduled to take effect in that fiscal year or has
taken effect in either of the 2 prior fiscal years. The bill would
require the trustees, when hiring a president of a campus, to give
primary consideration to applicants currently employed by the
California State University system and to secondarily give
consideration to residents of California who are not employees of the
system. The bill would provide that applicants who are neither
residents of California nor employees of the system are to receive
consideration after applicants who may be given primary and secondary
consideration.
   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 66602.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   66602.5.   (a)    All meetings of the trustees
shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 66602.7, be subject to
 Article   the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act
  (Article  9 (commencing with Section 11120) of
Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government
 Code   Code)  . 
   (b) The trustees shall not act to increase the salary range of any
university officer or employee or to increase the tuition or
mandatory systemwide fees of university students except in an open
public meeting properly noticed pursuant to the Bagley-Keene Open
Meeting Act. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 89517.7 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   89517.7.  (a) The trustees shall not award a president of a campus
compensation that exceeds 150 percent of the compensation of the
Chief Justice of California, except if the Governor, by executive
order, approves the individual president's compensation award.
   (b) The trustees shall not approve any increase in compensation
for a president of a campus if an increase in tuition is scheduled to
take effect in that fiscal year or has taken effect in either of the
two prior fiscal years.
   (c) When hiring a president of a campus, the trustees shall give
primary consideration to applicants currently employed by the
California State University system and then shall give secondary
consideration to applicants who are residents of California but are
not employees of the system. Applicants who are neither residents of
California nor employees of the system shall receive consideration
after applicants who may be given primary and secondary
consideration.
   (d) For purposes of this section, "compensation" includes, but is
not limited to, any taxable income or benefit, such as salary,
bonuses, or living allowances paid for with state moneys, including
moneys from a statewide or campus foundation or auxiliary
organization, as defined in Section 89901.