Bill Tracking

Click the links below to track the status of bills dealing with higher education, and the University of California that are currently working their way through the state legislative process:

SB 967--Leeland Yee

This bill would prohibit the trustees from, and request the regents to 

refrain from, increasing the monetary compensation, as defined, of, or 

approving a monetary bonus for, any executive officer, as defined, of 

the university within 2 years of a fiscal year in which the mandatory 

systemwide fees of the university are increased from the immediately 

preceding fiscal year, or in which the General Fund appropriation to 

the university in the annual Budget Act is less than, or equal to, the 

General Fund appropriation to the university in the annual Budget Act 

for the immediately preceding fiscal year. The bill would prohibit the 

trustees from, and request the regents to refrain from, providing 

monetary compensation to an incoming executive officer that exceeds 

105% of the monetary compensation of the immediately preceding 

executive officer of the same classification that the incoming executive 

officer is replacing.

AB 1500--John A. Perez

This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 

2012, revise the rules that determine whether a taxpayer is doing 

business in this state, revise the provisions that determine whether sales 

other than tangible personal property occur in this state, including 

specific provisions for cable systems or networks, and require a 

taxpayer, except as provided, to apportion its income in accordance 

with a single sales factor. 

This bill would require any aggregate increase in revenues derived 

from its provisions, as provided, to be deposited into the Middle Class 

Scholarship Fund, which the bill would establish, and, upon 

appropriation by the Legislature, allocate those revenues for the purpose 

of increasing the affordability of higher education. 

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an 

urgency statute. 

This bill would prohibit the trustees from entering into or renewing, 

and would request the regents not to enter into or renew, a contract that 

provides for a compensation increase, as defined, for any an 

administrator, as defined, using state moneys or moneys from tuition 

or fees in a fiscal year in which the amount of General Fund moneys 

appropriated to the respective segment in the annual Budget Act for the 

current fiscal year is less than the amount of moneys appropriated to 

that segment in the annual Budget Act for the immediately preceding 

fiscal year, or if mandatory systemwide resident tuition or fees have 

been increased in the same fiscal year. 

This bill would prohibit the trustees from increasing, and would 

request the regents not to increase, the compensation of an administrator 

by more than 10% relative to the immediately preceding compensation 

for that position. Subsequent to this increase, the bill would require, 

and request, that compensation to only be increased annually by the 

percentage of inflation, as specified.

AB 1741--Paul Fong

This bill would establish the Student Success Infrastructure Act of 

2012 to provide the necessary faculty counseling and instructional 

infrastructure at the California Community Colleges to ensure that

students have the necessary access to support services and classroom 

instructors to increase their opportunities for success. The bill would 

establish the Student Success Infrastructure Fund for the purpose of 

funding specified goals of the act.

This bill would prohibit a full-time instructor faculty member, as 

defined, for a community college district from being assigned a teaching 

workload that includes overload or extra assignments if the overload 

or extra assignments exceed 50% of a full-time workload in a semester, 

or quarter, or summer term that commences on or after January 1, 2013.