BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 2445
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 2445 (Chau)
As Introduced February 21, 2014
Majority vote
HIGHER EDUCATION 13-0
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|Ayes:|Williams, Chávez, Bloom, | | |
| |Fong, Fox, Jones-Sawyer, | | |
| |Levine, Linder, Medina, | | |
| |Olsen, Quirk-Silva, | | |
| |Weber, Wilk | | |
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SUMMARY : Specifies that a California Community College (CCC)
district governing board is authorized to enter into a contract
to provide transportation services to students and employees if
either a majority of the students of that district, or an
individual campus of that district, as applicable, vote to
approve the transportation fee.
EXISTING LAW : Authorizes a CCC governing board to charge the
district's, or campus of the district's, students and employees
for transportation services, provided that a majority of a CCC
district's students and/or employees vote to support a
transportation services fee before a fee is charged to any group
of students and/or faculty not using the service; establishes a
maximum transportation service fee amount of $70 per semester
and from $35 per intersession.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown. This bill is keyed non-fiscal by
Legislative Counsel.
COMMENTS : AB 2812 (Higher Education Committee), Chapter 954,
Statutes of 1998, authorized CCC districts, upon a majority vote
of students or students and employees, to charge a fee to
students or students and employees in order to cover the costs
of contracted transportation services. A majority vote of the
students of the district is required, at minimum, every 10 years
(the maximum length of the transportation services contract).
Elections are required to be publically noticed and open to all
students. Existing law allows transportation services programs
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to be established for a district or a single campus. The law,
however, requires the vote to implement such a program to be of
the whole district. This bill would clarify that transportation
programs and fees may be implemented with the approval of
students at either a campus or district level, as applicable.
The bill is intended to provide more flexibility for
multi-campus districts to establish transportation services at
individual campuses.
Analysis Prepared by : Laura Metune / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960
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