BILL NUMBER: SB 960 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 6, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 29, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 17, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE FEBRUARY 27, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Senator Rubio
( Coauthors: Senators De
León and Lieu )
( Coauthor: Assembly Member
Ammiano )
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 reallocated without an
affirmative vote of the majority of the members of either the student
body or a specified campus fee advisory committee
that meets specified criteria voting on the fee,
unless the vote that established the fee authorizes an alternative or
automatic 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) (1) Except as
provided for in paragraph (2) subdivision (b)
, 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, shall not be 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 (b) established under the policies of the
California State University voting on the fee.
(2)
(b) 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 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 reallocation
mechanism for that fee.
(b) The majority of the membership of a campus fee advisory
committee that votes to reallocate a campus-based mandatory fee
pursuant to this section shall be comprised of 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.
(c) This section shall not apply to campus-based fees approved
prior to the enactment of this section.