BILL NUMBER: AB 159	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chávez

                        JANUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 66025.4 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 159, as introduced, Chávez. Public postsecondary education:
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.
   This bill would require the trustees, and would request the
regents, to determine the amounts of undergraduate tuition and
mandatory systemwide fees for each incoming first-year class. The
bill would require that the tuition and mandatory systemwide fees set
for an incoming first-year class under the bill not be increased for
that class for at least 6 academic years, except as adjusted for
inflation, as specified.
   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 66025.4 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66025.4.  (a) The Trustees of the California State University
shall, and the Regents of the University of California are requested
to, determine the amounts of undergraduate tuition and mandatory
systemwide fees for each incoming first-year class. The tuition and
mandatory systemwide fees set for an incoming first-year class under
this section shall not be increased for that class for at least six
academic years, except as provided by subdivision (b).
   (b) The trustees and the regents may annually increase the tuition
and mandatory systemwide fee amounts determined under subdivision
(a) to reflect the percentage change, if any, in the Consumer Price
Index calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United
States Department of Labor during the previous academic year.