BILL NUMBER: SB 679 CHAPTERED 10/10/99 CHAPTER 1020 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 10, 1999 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 10, 1999 PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 10, 1999 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 9, 1999 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 7, 1999 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 3, 1999 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 16, 1999 AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 2, 1999 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 5, 1999 INTRODUCED BY Senator Johnston (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Machado) (Coauthor: Senator Monteith) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Cardoza and House) FEBRUARY 24, 1999 An act to add Chapter 4.8 (commencing with Section 89450) to Part 55 of the Education Code, relating to education, and making an appropriation therefor. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 679, Johnston. Education: California State University. Existing law requires the California State University to offer undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education. Existing law authorizes research, scholarship, and creative activity in support of the university's undergraduate and graduate instructional mission. This bill would appropriate $1,600,000 from the General Fund to the Trustees of the California State University for allocation in the 1999-2000 fiscal year. Of that amount, $1,300,000 would be allocated to California State University, Stanislaus, for expenditure for maintenance and operation of physical facilities located on the site of the Stockton Development Center, and $300,000 would be allocated to the trustees for purposes of funding a feasibility study regarding the site to be conducted by the trustees, the Department of General Services, the Department of Finance, and the City of Stockton, as required by the bill. The study would be required to be completed by September 1, 2000. Appropriation: yes. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Chapter 4.8 (commencing with Section 89450) is added to Part 55 of the Education Code, to read: CHAPTER 4.8. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS: REUSE OF STOCKTON DEVELOPMENT CENTER 89450. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a need for the California State University to continue development of a reuse plan for the site of the former Stockton Development Center, the property of which has been conveyed to the trustees for public school purposes. (b) The establishment of an educationally focused campus consisting of public-public and public-private partnerships will result in greater educational opportunities for the residents of San Joaquin County and in economic development opportunities for the City of Stockton. (c) To facilitate the reuse of the site, it is necessary to provide funding for the maintenance of physical facilities on the site and for a study to explore the long-term feasibility of reusing the site in the prescribed manner. 89451. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Stockton Development Center be a productive asset focused on educationally based programs. Further, it is the intent of the Legislature to supplement state resources in site maintenance through public-public and public-private partnerships. 89452. (a) The trustees, the Department of General Services, the Department of Finance, and the City of Stockton shall prepare a long-term feasibility study regarding the reuse of the site. The study shall include consideration of the state resources necessary to develop the site in the future. The study shall be completed by September 1, 2000. SEC. 2. The sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) is hereby appropriated for expenditure, without regard to fiscal year, from the General Fund to the Trustees of the California State University for allocation in the 1999-2000 fiscal year as follows: (a) One million three hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000) to California State University, Stanislaus, for expenditure for maintenance and operation of physical facilities located on the site of the Stockton Development Center, as set forth in Chapter 4.8 (commencing with Section 89450) of Part 55 of the Education Code. (b) Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to the trustees for purposes of funding the feasibility study required by Section 89452 of the Education Code. SEC. 3. It is the intent of the Legislature that funding for purposes of Chapter 4.8 (commencing with Section 89450) of Part 55 of the Education Code in the 2000-01 fiscal year be provided in the Budget Act or in another act.