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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2736
Author: Assembly Higher Education Committee
Amended: 6/26/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 6/18/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 4/28/14 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : Postsecondary education
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill authorizes the California State University
(CSU) Trustees to fix a voluntary fee, as defined, for voluntary
membership in the statewide student organization, and makes
several corrections and changes to various provisions of the
Education Code affecting CSU.
ANALYSIS : Existing law authorizes a student body organization
to be established at any state university under the supervision
of the university officials and outlines the activities which
may be undertaken by the organization. Existing law also
authorizes the CSU Trustees to fix fees for voluntary membership
in the student organization.
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Existing law requires the trustees to fix a membership fee to be
required of all students attending the university, if a student
body organization is established upon the favorable vote of
two-thirds of the students voting. Once approved, the CSU
Trustees may approve an increase or decrease in the fee only if
such has been approved by a majority of students voting and
provides that these fees be a prerequisite to enrollment at the
university, as specified. Existing law prohibits this fee from
being charged to students registering solely in extension
classes.
Existing law authorizes the expenditure of these fees to provide
for the support of governmental affairs representatives who may
be attending upon the State Legislature or the offices and
agencies of the executive branch of state government.
Existing law establishes the CSU Board of Trustees and specifies
its composition. Provides for two student representatives on
the Board and requires that the Governor appoint the students
from a list of names provided by the governing board of any
statewide student organization that represents the students of
the CSU and the student body organizations of the campuses of
the CSU.
This bill:
1.Authorizes the CSU Trustees to fix a fee for voluntary
membership in the statewide student organization and requires
the CSU Trustees to provide students the ability to
affirmatively elect to pay the fee, or a clear and unambiguous
means to decline payment of the fee, each time the fee is
assessed.
2.Defines that the fee for membership in a student organization
is voluntary if a student has the ability to affirmatively
elect to pay the fee, or to decline the payment of the fee
each time the fee is assessed.
3.Makes several non-controversial changes and corrections to
existing Education Code provisions, as follows:
A. Changes the date by which an ongoing Legislative
Analyst's Office report on the CSU Early Start Program must
be delivered from January 1 to July 1, beginning in 2016,
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and extends the sunset date of these provisions from
January 1, 2018 to July 1, 2018.
B. Deletes irrelevant reporting requirements relative to
the CSU authority to offer the Doctorate of Nursing
Practice and sunsets the reporting requirement in January
1, 2021.
C. Changes the due date of a statutorily required report
disclosing the acceptance of any gift of personal property
by the CSU Trustees from January 5 to January 31, annually.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/4/14)
California State Student Association
California State University
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 4/28/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez,
Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,
Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski,
Wilk, Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Mansoor, Vacancy
PQ:nl 8/4/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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