Existing law provides for a public postsecondary education system in this state. This system consists of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges. Existing law provides for systemwide fees for resident undergraduate students at these institutions.

This bill would require that the systemwide fees charged to matriculated students at the University of California and the California State University for instruction during summer terms or sessions not exceed the any fees charged to matriculated students for equivalent instruction during other academic terms or sessions. The bill would appropriate $24,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for allocation, in accordance with a prescribed schedule, to the University of California and the California State University for the 2000-01 fiscal year as a reimbursement for fiscal losses of the respective universities resulting from any fee reduction required by the bill. The bill would only apply to the University of California to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make the bill applicable.

The bill would become operative on July 1, 2000, or on the date on which it is chaptered, whichever occurs last.

The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.