BILL NUMBER: AB 2610	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 12, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2014

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 amended, 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.
   The bill would require the Chancellor of the California State
University, in consultation with stakeholders, including, but not
necessarily limited to, the Academic Senate of the California State
University, to develop a definition for "supplanting" in accordance
with  the intent of the Legislature expressed in this bill
and report that recommended definition to the chairpersons of the
Assembly Committee on Higher Education and the Senate Committee on
Education on or before January 31, 2015.   specified
statements of legislative intent. 
   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) 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 pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the
trustees.
   (d) "Special sessions," as used in this 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.
  SEC. 2.  The Chancellor of the California State University, in
consultation with stakeholders, including, but not necessarily
limited to, the Academic Senate of the California State University,
shall develop a definition for "supplanting" in accordance with the
intent of the Legislature expressed in  subdivision (b) of
 Section 89708 of the Education  Code and report
that recommended definition to the chairpersons of the Assembly
Committee on Higher Education and the Senate Committee on Education
on or before January 31, 2015.   Code.