AB 2610, as introduced, Williams. California State University: special sessions.
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 this state. Under existing law, the California State University comprises 25 institutions of higher education. Existing law requires that tuition fees adequate to meet the cost of maintaining special sessions, as defined, in the California State University be collected from students enrolled in each special session pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the trustees.
This bill would express legislative findings and declarations relating to self-supported extension education programs of the university that are prohibited from supplanting state-supported courses. The bill would also express legislative intent to enact legislation to provide sufficient direction to the Chancellor of the California State University and to campuses of the university by clarifying statutory language and defining “supplant.” The bill would also make other nonsubstantive changes.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 89708 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
begin deleteTuition end deletebegin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertThe Legislature finds and declares all of
4the following:end insert
5(1) In addition to providing state-supported courses and
6programs, California State University campuses offer extension
7education courses and programs that must be self-supporting.
8(2) Extension education courses and
programs are designed
9and used to provide increased access to the educational resources
10of the system and to otherwise facilitate the use of those resources.
11(3) California State University campuses are prohibited from
12“supplanting” state-supported courses offered during the regular
13academic year with self-supported courses. However, the State
14Auditor has determined that existing state law does not define
15“supplanting.”
16(4) “Supplant” is used in the context of community college
17extension courses in subdivision (g) of Section 78230, but is not
18defined in that provision.
19(b) It is the intent of the
Legislature to enact legislation to
20provide sufficient direction to the Chancellor of the California
21State University and to campuses of the university by clarifying
22statutory language and defining “supplant.”
23begin insert(c)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertTuitionend insert fees adequate, in the long run, to meet the cost of
24maintaining special sessions in the California State University
25shall be required of, and collected from, students enrolled in each
26special sessionbegin delete under andend delete pursuant to rules and regulations
27prescribed by the trustees.
28 “Special
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29begin insert(d)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insert“Special end insertsessions,” as used in thisbegin delete divisionend deletebegin insert
chapterend insert, means
30self-supporting instructional programs conducted by the California
31State University. The special sessions shall include, but not
32begin insert necessarilyend insert be limited to, career enrichment and retraining
33programs. It is the intent of the Legislature that those programs,
34currently offered on a self-supporting basis by the California State
35University during summer sessions, may be provided throughout
36the year, and shall be known as special sessions. The
37self-supporting special sessions shall not supplant regular course
P3 1offerings available on a non-self-supporting basis during the regular
2academic year.
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