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          CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
          AB 774 (Cook)
          As Amended  July 9, 2009
          Majority vote
           
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          |ASSEMBLY:  |73-0 |(May 14, 2009)  |SENATE: |38-0 |(August 27,    |
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           Original Committee Reference:    HIGHER ED.  

           SUMMARY  :  Expands existing law to allow all California Community  
          College (CCC) Districts to charge a fee to students or students  
          and employees in order to fund transportation services, if  
          specific requirements are met.  
           
           The Senate amendments authorize all CCC Districts to charge a  
          fee to students or students and employees in order to fund  
          transportation services if specified requirements are met.  
           
          EXISTING LAW applies the aforementioned provisions to Los Rios  
          Community College District (Los Rios CCD), Rio Hondo Community  
          College District (Rio Hondo CCD), and Peralta Community College  
          District (Peralta CCD).  

           AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY  , this bill would have expanded the  
          aforementioned provisions to Riverside Community College  
          District (Riverside CCD).  
           
           FISCAL EFFECT  :  None 

           COMMENTS  :  Background on Los Rios CCD, Rio Hondo CCD and Peralta  
          CCD provisions:  Existing law authorizes 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.  Low-income  
          students are statutorily exempt from paying the fee.  

          As a result of the increase in student utilization of  
          transportation services and an increase in the CCC Board of  
          Governors Fee Waiver recipients who were exempt from paying the  
          transportation services fee, Los Rios CCD faced rising numbers  
          of users and falling fee revenues.  Without the ability to  
          divide the fee among all students, including low-income  








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          students, Los Rios CCD was concerned that the transportation  
          service fee would increase to the point that students would  
          likely not have voted to continue transportation services.  

          In 2006, AB 1968 (Leslie), Chapter 560, authorized Los Rios CCD  
          and Rio Hondo CCD to include low-income students in the fee.  In  
          2008, AB 1980 (Swanson), Chapter 145, added Peralta CCD to these  
          provisions.   

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Laura Metune / HIGHER ED. / (916)  
          319-3960 

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