BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 2736| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 2736 Author: Assembly Higher Education Committee Amended: 6/26/14 in Senate Vote: 21 SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 6/18/14 AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8 ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 4/28/14 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT : Postsecondary education SOURCE : Author DIGEST : This bill authorizes the California State University (CSU) Trustees to fix a voluntary fee, as defined, for voluntary membership in the statewide student organization, and makes several corrections and changes to various provisions of the Education Code affecting CSU. ANALYSIS : Existing law authorizes a student body organization to be established at any state university under the supervision of the university officials and outlines the activities which may be undertaken by the organization. Existing law also authorizes the CSU Trustees to fix fees for voluntary membership in the student organization. CONTINUED AB 2736 Page 2 Existing law requires the trustees to fix a membership fee to be required of all students attending the university, if a student body organization is established upon the favorable vote of two-thirds of the students voting. Once approved, the CSU Trustees may approve an increase or decrease in the fee only if such has been approved by a majority of students voting and provides that these fees be a prerequisite to enrollment at the university, as specified. Existing law prohibits this fee from being charged to students registering solely in extension classes. Existing law authorizes the expenditure of these fees to provide for the support of governmental affairs representatives who may be attending upon the State Legislature or the offices and agencies of the executive branch of state government. Existing law establishes the CSU Board of Trustees and specifies its composition. Provides for two student representatives on the Board and requires that the Governor appoint the students from a list of names provided by the governing board of any statewide student organization that represents the students of the CSU and the student body organizations of the campuses of the CSU. This bill: 1.Authorizes the CSU Trustees to fix a fee for voluntary membership in the statewide student organization and requires the CSU Trustees to provide students the ability to affirmatively elect to pay the fee, or a clear and unambiguous means to decline payment of the fee, each time the fee is assessed. 2.Defines that the fee for membership in a student organization is voluntary if a student has the ability to affirmatively elect to pay the fee, or to decline the payment of the fee each time the fee is assessed. 3.Makes several non-controversial changes and corrections to existing Education Code provisions, as follows: A. Changes the date by which an ongoing Legislative Analyst's Office report on the CSU Early Start Program must be delivered from January 1 to July 1, beginning in 2016, CONTINUED AB 2736 Page 3 and extends the sunset date of these provisions from January 1, 2018 to July 1, 2018. B. Deletes irrelevant reporting requirements relative to the CSU authority to offer the Doctorate of Nursing Practice and sunsets the reporting requirement in January 1, 2021. C. Changes the due date of a statutorily required report disclosing the acceptance of any gift of personal property by the CSU Trustees from January 5 to January 31, annually. FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: No SUPPORT : (Verified 8/4/14) California State Student Association California State University ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 4/28/14 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez NO VOTE RECORDED: Mansoor, Vacancy PQ:nl 8/4/14 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE **** END **** CONTINUED AB 2736 Page 4 CONTINUED