BILL NUMBER: AB 2610	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2610, as introduced, Williams. California State University:
special sessions.
   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. Under existing law, the California State University
comprises 25 institutions of higher education. Existing law requires
that tuition fees adequate to meet the cost of maintaining special
sessions, as defined, in the California State University be collected
from students enrolled in each special session pursuant to rules and
regulations prescribed by the trustees.
   This bill would express legislative findings and declarations
relating to self-supported extension education programs of the
university that are prohibited from supplanting state-supported
courses. The bill would also express legislative intent to enact
legislation to provide sufficient direction to the Chancellor of the
California State University and to campuses of the university by
clarifying statutory language and defining "supplant." The bill would
also make other nonsubstantive changes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
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.   Tuition   (a)    
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:  
   (1) In addition to providing state-supported courses and programs,
California State University campuses offer extension education
courses and programs that must be self-supporting.  
   (2) Extension education courses and programs are designed and used
to provide increased access to the educational resources of the
system and to otherwise facilitate the use of those resources. 

   (3) California State University campuses are prohibited from
"supplanting" state-supported courses offered during the regular
academic year with self-supported courses. However, the State Auditor
has determined that existing state law does not define "supplanting."
 
   (4) "Supplant" is used in the context of community college
extension courses in subdivision (g) of Section 78230, but is not
defined in that provision.  
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to
provide sufficient direction to the Chancellor of the California
State University and to campuses of the university by clarifying
statutory language and defining "supplant." 
    (c)     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. 
    "Special 
    (d)     "Special  sessions," as used
in this  division   chapter  , means
self-supporting instructional programs conducted by the California
State University. The special sessions shall include, but not 
necessarily  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.