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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                           216 (Liu)
          
          Hearing Date:  05/28/2009           Amended: 05/05/2009
          Consultant:  Dan Troy           Policy Vote: ED 8-0
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          BILL SUMMARY:   SB 216 requires the California State University  
          (CSU) Trustees and the California Community College (CCC) Board  
          of Governors, and requests the University of California (UC)  
          Regents, to post a list of required textbooks for each course on  
          the internet at least 30 days prior to the first day of class,  
          including the price charged for each textbook, commencing on  
          July 1, 2010.  The bill would also require each instructor or  
          academic department to confirm the intent to use each individual  
          item sold as part of a bundled package of instructional  
          materials before the final adoption of the material.  
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions         2009-10      2010-11       2011-12     Fund
                                                                  
          UC                                                $100           
          General

          CSU                                               $230     
          General

          CCC                                               $1,100     
          General*

          Ongoing CCC mandates            Unknown, but potentially  
          hundreds                    General*
                                   of thousands

          *Counts toward meeting the Proposition 98 minimum funding  
          guarantee
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          STAFF COMMENTS: SUSPENSE FILE.

          According to UC and CSU, this bill would drive one-time workload  










          for each campus bookstore to program its website to include the  
          information required by the bill.  UC estimates one-time costs  
          of $10,000 per campus for a total system-wide cost of $100,000.   
          The ongoing work of inputting textbook data would be absorbable.  
           Assuming similar costs for CSU and CCC, total costs would be  
          $230,000 for CSU and $1.1 million for CCC. 

          We note CCC campuses are eligible to claim reimbursement for  
          costs through the Commission on State Mandates.  To this end,  
          the state may face ongoing costs not only for the annual entry  
          of data into campus bookstore websites but also costs for  
          reimbursing faculty and/or academic departments to perform the  
          extra duties required by the bill.  Assuming just one hour of  
          time for each faculty member could result in annual  
          reimbursement claims in the hundreds of thousands or even  
          millions of dollars.