BILL NUMBER: AB 2427	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Butler

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 89708 of the Education Code, relating to
the California State University.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2427, as introduced, Butler. California State University:
special session 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 this state. Existing law requires certain fees to be required of,
and collected from, students enrolled in each special session,
pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the Board of Trustees
of the California State University.
   This bill would prohibit special session fees at all campuses of
the California State University for courses offered to matriculated
students for credit towards an undergraduate or graduate degree, such
as a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree, from exceeding fees
charged per credit unit for any other academic term.
   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 89708 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   89708.   (a)    Tuition fees adequate, in the
long run, to meet the cost of maintaining special sessions in the
California State University shall be required of, and collected from,
students enrolled in each special session under and pursuant to
rules and regulations prescribed by the trustees. 
   (b) Special session fees at all campuses of the California State
University for courses offered to matriculated students for credit
towards an undergraduate or graduate degree, such as a bachelor's,
master's, or doctoral degree, shall not exceed fees charged per
credit unit for any other academic term.  
   "Special 
    (c)     "Special  sessions," as used
in this division, means self-supporting instructional programs
conducted by the California State University. The special sessions
shall include, but not be limited to, career enrichment and
retraining programs. It is the intent of the Legislature that those
programs, currently offered on a self-supporting basis by the
California State University during summer sessions, may be provided
throughout the year, and shall be known as special sessions. The
self-supporting special sessions shall not supplant regular course
offerings available on a non-self-supporting basis during the regular
academic year.