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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 938
Author: Weber (D)
Amended: 7/2/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/25/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 50-27, 5/30/13 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Public postsecondary education: fees
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires a campus of the California State
University (CSU) that has implemented a student success fee to
use its institutional aid to pay the cost of the student success
fee for low-income students, as defined.
ANALYSIS : Existing law authorizes the CSU Board of Trustees
to adopt regulations to require all persons to pay fees, rents,
deposits, and charges for services, facilities or materials
provided by the trustees to such persons. The Trustees are also
authorized to provide for the method of collecting such fees,
rents, deposits, and charges, and to provide for the refund of
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such fees, rents, deposits, and charges collected in error or
collected for facilities, services, or materials not utilized.
Student success fees are category 2 campus-based mandatory fees.
Like other campus-based mandatory fees they are included in the
cost of attendance, and included in financial aid awards.
This bill requires a campus of the CSU that has implemented a
student success fee to use its institutional aid to pay the cost
of the student success fee for low-income students, as defined.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Potentially significant costs to the CSU, to increase
institutional aid to low-income students who: (a) attend
campuses that have enacted student success fees; and (b)
receive institutional aid in an amount less than the student
success fee level.
Administration: Potentially significant ongoing workload for
the CSU to implement the provisions of this bill ensuring that
campuses provide each low-income student with institutional
aid that is at least equal to a campus' student success fee
level, as applicable.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/13/14)
California Faculty Association
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 50-27, 5/30/13
AYES: Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins, Bloom, Blumenfield, Bocanegra,
Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon,
Campos, Chau, Chesbro, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Frazier,
Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Hall, Roger
Hern�ndez, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal, Medina, Mitchell,
Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez,
Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber,
Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NOES: Achadjian, Allen, Bigelow, Ch�vez, Conway, Cooley, Dahle,
Donnelly, Beth Gaines, Gorell, Grove, Hagman, Harkey, Jones,
Linder, Logue,
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Maienschein, Mansoor, Melendez, Morrell, Nestande, Olsen,
Patterson, Salas, Wagner, Waldron, Wilk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Fox, Holden, Vacancy
PQ:e 8/14/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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