BILL NUMBER: SB 960	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 29, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 17, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  FEBRUARY 27, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Rubio

                        JANUARY 10, 2012

   An act to add Section 89711 to the Education Code, relating to the
California State University.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 960, as amended, Rubio. California State University:
campus-based mandatory fees.
   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 the state. Existing law authorizes the trustees by rule to require
all persons to pay fees, rents, deposits, and charges for services,
facilities, or materials provided by the trustees to those persons.
   This bill would prohibit specified California State University
campus-based mandatory fees from being  established without
an affirmative vote of a majority of the student body voting on the
fee. The bill also would prohibit those fees from being adjusted or
 reallocated without an affirmative vote of the majority of
the members of either the student body or a campus fee advisory
committee that meets specified criteria voting on the fee, unless the
vote that established the fee authorizes an alternative or automatic
 adjustment or  reallocation mechanism for that
fee.
   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 89711 is added to the Education Code, to read:

   89711.  (a) California State University campus-based mandatory
fees, other than those for instruction-related purposes, that are not
specifically authorized by statute shall not be established without
an affirmative vote of a majority of the student body voting on the
fee. This subdivision shall not be interpreted to require current
campus-based mandatory fees to be reestablished with an affirmative
vote of the majority of the student body voting on the fee.
   (b) 
    89711.    (a)  (1) Except as provided for in
paragraph (2), a California State University campus-based mandatory
fee established through an affirmative vote of the majority of the
student body voting on the fee, but not specifically authorized by
statute, shall not be  adjusted or  reallocated
without an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of either
the student body or a campus fee advisory committee that meets the
criteria specified in subdivision  (c)   (b)
 voting on the fee.
   (2) A California State University campus-based mandatory fee
established through an affirmative vote of the majority of the
student body voting on the fee, but not specifically authorized by
statute, may be  adjusted or  reallocated without an
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of either the student
body or a campus fee advisory committee voting on the fee if the vote
that established the fee authorized an alternative or automatic
 adjustment or  reallocation mechanism for that fee.

   (c) 
    (b)  The majority of the membership of a campus fee
advisory committee that votes to  establish, adjust, or
 reallocate a campus-based mandatory fee pursuant to this
section shall be comprised of students who are representatives of the
student body organization of the campus, or who are selected by that
student body organization. The campus fee advisory committee may
include nonstudent members who are appointed or elected as
authorized.