Bill Text: CA SB960 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: California State University: campus-based mandatory fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 574, Statutes of 2012. [SB960 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB960-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 960	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 17, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  FEBRUARY 27, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Rubio

                        JANUARY 10, 2012

   An act to add Section 89711 to the Education Code, relating to the
California State University.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 960, as amended, Rubio. California State University:
campus-based mandatory fees.
   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 authorizes the trustees by rule to require
all persons to pay fees, rents, deposits, and charges for services,
facilities, or materials provided by the trustees to those persons.
   This bill would prohibit specified California State University
campus-based mandatory fees from being established  ,
adjusted, or reallocated  without an affirmative vote of
 either   a majority of  the student body
 or a campus fee advisory committee that meets specified
criteria. The bill would also prohibit a rule, order, or other action
of the California State University or its campuses, including, but
not limited to, the university's Mandatory Catalog, from providing
authority to campus presidents, or any other person, to use
alternative consultation mechanisms to establish, adjust, or
reallocate those campus-based mandatory fees without an affirmative
vote of either the student body or a campus fee advisory committee
that meets specified criteria.   voting on the fee. The
bill also would prohibit those fees from being adjusted or
reallocated without an affirmative vote of the majority of the
members of either the student body or a campus fee advisory committee
that meets specified criteria voting on the fee, unless the vote
  that established the fee authorizes an alternative or
automatic adjustment or reallocation mechanism for that fee. 
   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 89711 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   89711.  (a) California State University campus-based mandatory
fees  , other than those for instruction   -related
purposes,  that are not specifically authorized by statute shall
not be established without an affirmative vote of  either
  a majority of  the student body  or a
campus fee advisory committee that meets the criteria specified in
subdivision (d)   voting on the fee. This subdivision
shall not be interpreted to require current campus-based mandatory
fees to be reestablished with an affirmative vote of the majority of
the   student body voting on the fee  .
   (b)  (1)    Except as provided for in
paragraph (2), a  California State University campus-based
mandatory  fees   fee  established through
 a   an affirmative  vote of  the
majority of  the student body  voting on the fee  , but
not specifically authorized by statute, shall not be adjusted or
reallocated without an affirmative vote of  a majority of the
members of  either the student body or a campus fee advisory
committee that meets the criteria specified in subdivision 
(d)   (c) voting on the fee  . 
   (2) A California State University campus-based mandatory fee
established through an affirmative vote of the majority of the
student body voting on the fee, but not specifically authorized by
statute, may be adjusted or reallocated without an affirmative vote
of a majority of the members of either the student body or a campus
fee advisory committee voting on the fee if the vote that established
the fee authorized an alternative or automatic adjustment or
reallocation mechanism for that fee.  
   (c) A rule, order, or other action of the California State
University or its campuses, including, but not limited to, the
university's Mandatory Catalog, shall not provide authority to campus
presidents, or any other person, to use alternative consultation
mechanisms to establish, adjust, or reallocate the campus-based
mandatory fees referenced in subdivisions (a) and (b) without an
affirmative vote of either the student body or a campus fee advisory
committee that meets the criteria specified in subdivision (d).
 
   (d) 
    (c)  The majority of the membership of a campus fee
advisory committee that votes to establish, adjust, or reallocate a
campus-based mandatory fee pursuant to this section shall be
comprised of  student members elected by the student body who
may hold other offices   students who are
representatives of the student body organization of the campus, or
who are selected by that student body organization  . The campus
fee advisory committee may include nonstudent members who are
appointed or elected as authorized.