Article 1 - Fees, Rents, and Charges

California Education Code — §§ 89700-89712

Sections (16)

Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1165, Sec. 1.

(a)The trustees may by rule require all persons to pay fees, rents, deposits, and charges for services, facilities or materials provided by the trustees to such persons. The trustees may, by rule, provide for the method of collecting such fees, rents, deposits, and charges, and may, by rule, provide for the refund in whole or part of such fees, rents, deposits, and charges collected in error or collected for facilities, services, or materials not utilized.

(b)If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling without further legislative action, except that if such provisions of a memorandum of understanding require the expenditure of funds, the provisions shall not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.

§ 89700.1

Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 536, Sec. 3. Effective August 21, 1992.

(a)Notwithstanding the requirement of Section 89301 that tuition, material, and service fees be collected by campus officials at the time of registration, the trustees, in consultation with student representatives, may authorize installment payments for the California State University fee established by the trustees pursuant to Section 89700 to cover the costs of services, facilities, or materials, and for nonresident tuition established pursuant to Section 89705. Installment payment schedules may be established in accordance with timetables as determined appropriate by the trustees, in consultation with student representatives.

(b)The trustees, in consultation with student representatives, shall impose a fee in an amount necessary to cover the costs of administering a system of installment payments and may deposit that fee in the General Fund or in local trust accounts as authorized by Section 89721 and established for the purpose of covering those costs. The administrative costs shall include, but not be limited to, the cost of collecting delinquent and defaulted accounts.

(c)The trustees shall include, in the fee imposed for administering the system of installment payments, the interest that the state would have earned in the Pooled Money Investment Account had the fee been collected at the time of registration. The portion of the administrative fee attributable to reimbursement for loss of interest earnings shall be deposited in the General Fund.

(d)The trustees shall provide notice of the amount of the fee that is imposed upon students who use the installment payment system. That notice shall include information regarding the amount of the fee and shall be included in the billing statement sent to the student and posted on signs at the campus cashier window. The information regarding the fee may also be conveyed to the students in any other manner determined appropriate by the trustees.

§ 89701

Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 285, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2001.

(a)The trustees are authorized to acquire, pursuant to the Property Acquisition Law (Part 11 (commencing with Section 15850) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code) or by lease or other means, real property and to construct, operate, and maintain motor vehicle parking facilities and other transportation facilities thereon for state university officers, employees, students, or other persons. The trustees may prescribe the terms and conditions of the parking, and of parking on facilities existing on the effective date of this section, including the payment of parking fees in the amounts and under the circumstances determined by the trustees. Varying rates of parking fees may be established for different localities or for different parking facilities and for the purposes authorized by subdivision (b). In determining rates of parking fees, the trustees may consider the rates charged in the same locality by other public agencies and by private employers for employee parking, the rates charged to students by other universities and colleges.

(b)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, revenues received by the trustees from any of the motor vehicle parking facilities, as well as from all parking facilities existing on the effective date of this section, may be transmitted to the Treasurer and, if transmitted, shall be deposited by that officer in the State Treasury to the credit of the State University Parking Revenue Fund, which is hereby created.

(2)All revenues received by the trustees under this section may be pledged for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of parking and other transportation facilities, and may also be pledged to supplement other revenue funded projects relating to debt obligations issued by the trustees pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947. Nothing in this section shall be construed as altering or permitting a change in the pledge of parking fee revenues established in connection with debt obligations issued prior to the enactment of this section and pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947.

(3)All revenues received by the trustees from parking facilities, to the extent not pledged in connection with bonds or notes issued pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947, are hereby appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the trustees for the acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance of motor vehicle parking facilities on real property acquired hereunder or on real property otherwise under the jurisdiction of the trustees, and for the study, development, enhancement, operation, and maintenance of alternate methods of transportation for officers, students, and employees of the California State University.

(4)The trustees shall allocate the funds for the construction of parking facilities for each of the California State University campuses only after programs incorporating alternate methods of transportation have been thoroughly investigated and considered, as determined by the alternative transportation committees of each campus and the trustees, in consultation with students and local government officials.

(5)Moneys in the State University Parking Revenue Fund may be invested by the Treasurer, upon approval of the trustees, in those eligible securities listed in Section 16430 of the Government Code. All interest or other earnings received pursuant to the investments shall be deposited to the credit of the State University Parking Revenue Fund.

(c)The Legislature, by this section, does not intend to authorize the institution of a private parking program unrelated to state purposes in competition with private industry.

(d)If any provision of this section is in conflict with any provision of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling without further legislative action, except that if one or more provisions of a memorandum of understanding require the expenditure of funds, the provisions shall not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.

§ 89701.5

Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 1168, Sec. 2. Effective October 14, 1991.

Moneys in the State University Parking Revenue Fund received as parking fines and forfeitures shall be used exclusively for the development, enhancement, and operation of alternate methods of transportation programs for students and employees, for the mitigation of the impact of off-campus student and employee parking in university communities, and for the administration of the parking fines and forfeitures programs.

§ 89702

Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 285, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2001.

(a)The Trustees of the California State University may acquire, pursuant to the Property Acquisition Law (Part 11 (commencing with Section 15850) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code) or by lease or other means, real property and may construct and improve student health centers entirely or in part by the use of funds acquired pursuant to this section.

(b)The trustees may prescribe under Section 89700 a fee to provide for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of student health center facilities, in the amounts and under the circumstances as may be determined by the trustees.

(c)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, revenues received by the trustees from the student health center facilities fee may be transmitted to the Treasurer and, if transmitted, shall be deposited by that officer in the State Treasury to the credit of the State University Facilities Revenue Fund, which is hereby created.

(2)All revenues received by the trustees under this section may be pledged for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of student health facilities projects pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947 (Article 2 (commencing with Section 90010) of Chapter 8), and may also be pledged to supplement other revenue funded projects relating to debt obligations issued by the trustees pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947. Nothing in this section shall be construed as altering or permitting a change in the pledge of student health facility fee revenues established in connection with debt obligations issued prior to the enactment of this section and pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947.

(3)All revenues received by the trustees from the facilities fee, to the extent not pledged in connection with bonds or notes issued pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947, are hereby appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the trustees for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of student health centers on real property acquired pursuant to this section or on real property otherwise under the jurisdiction of the trustees.

(4)Moneys in the State University Facilities Revenue Fund may be invested by the Treasurer, upon approval of the trustees, in those eligible securities listed in Section 16430 of the Government Code. All interest or other earnings received pursuant to the investments shall be deposited to the credit of the State University Facilities Revenue Fund.

§ 89703

Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 285, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2001.

(a)The trustees may prescribe student housing rental rates and fees to provide revenues for student housing programs in the amounts and under the circumstances that are determined by the trustees.

(b)(1) The trustees may pledge all or any part of student housing revenues in connection with bonds or notes issued pursuant to State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947 (Article 2 (commencing with Section 90010) of Chapter 8), in which case the revenues shall be deposited, transmitted, and used in the manner provided by that act.

(2)All revenues received by the trustees from housing rental rates and fees under this section may be pledged for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of student housing projects, and may also be pledged to supplement other revenue funded projects relating to debt obligations issued by the trustees pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947. Nothing in this section shall be construed as altering or permitting a change in the pledge of housing rental revenues established in connection with debt obligations issued prior to the enactment of this section and pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947.

§ 89704

Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 828, Sec. 1. (AB 2395) Effective January 1, 2025.

(a)Notwithstanding any other law, revenues received by the Trustees of the California State University from extension programs, special session, or self-supporting instructional programs, including, but not limited to, fees and charges required by the trustees, may be transmitted to either of the following:

(1)The Treasurer and, if transmitted, shall be deposited by that officer in the State Treasury to the credit of the State University Continuing Education Revenue

Fund, which is hereby created, and which is hereby designated as successor to the State College Extension Program Revenue Fund.

(2)The chief fiscal officer of one or more campuses of the California State University, and, if transmitted, shall be deposited by the chief fiscal officer in accordance with Section 89721.

(b)All revenues in the State University Continuing Education Revenue Fund are hereby appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the trustees for the support and development of

instructional programs of the California State University. However, proposed expenditures or obligations to be incurred during any fiscal year from the State University Continuing Education Revenue Fund, other than expenditures or obligations authorized by subdivision (d), shall be contained in the budget submitted for that fiscal year by the Governor pursuant to Section 12 of Article IV of the Constitution, and shall be subject to Article 2 (commencing with Section 13320) of Chapter 3 of Part 3 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

(c)Moneys in the State University Continuing Education Revenue Fund may be invested by the Treasurer, upon approval of the trustees, in those eligible securities listed in Section 16430 of the Government Code. All interest or other earnings received pursuant to the investments shall be

deposited to the credit of the State University Continuing Education Revenue Fund.

(d)All revenues received by the trustees under this section may be pledged for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities for extension programs, special session, and other self-supporting instructional programs pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947 (Article 2 (commencing with Section 90010) of Chapter 8), and may also be pledged to supplement other revenue funded projects relating to debt obligations issued by the trustees pursuant to the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947.

(e)On or before March 31 of each year, the California State University shall submit a report on the implementation of

this section to the Department of Finance and, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. The report shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following:

(1)The total amount of revenue generated from extension programs, special session, or self-supporting instructional programs in the prior three fiscal years, by campus.

(2)Of the amounts identified in paragraph (1), the amount transmitted to the Treasurer pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) and the amount transmitted to the chief fiscal officer of each campus pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a).

(3)The total amount of expenditures from revenue generated from extension programs, special session, or self-supporting instructional programs in the prior three fiscal

years and the purposes for which those funds were expended.

§ 89705

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 110, Sec. 2. (SB 701) Effective January 1, 2022.

(a)Except as provided in subdivision (c), and as otherwise specially provided, an admission fee and rate of tuition fixed by the trustees shall be required of each nonresident student. The rate of tuition to be paid by each nonresident student, as defined in Section 68018, shall not be less than three hundred sixty dollars ($360) per year. The rate of tuition paid by each nonresident student who is a citizen and resident of a foreign country and not a citizen of the United States, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be fixed by the trustees and shall not be less than three hundred sixty dollars ($360) per year.

(b)The trustees may waive entirely, or reduce below the rate, or the minimum rate, fixed by this section, the tuition fee of a nonresident

student who is a citizen and resident of a foreign country and who attends a state university or college under an agreement entered into by a governmental agency or a nonprofit corporation or organization with a similar agency, or corporation or association, domiciled in and organized under laws of a foreign country, where a principal purpose of the agreement is to encourage the exchange of students with the view of enhancing international good will and understanding. The trustees shall, in each instance, determine whether the conditions for this exemption from fees exist and may prescribe appropriate procedures to be complied with in obtaining the exemption.

(c)The trustees shall waive entirely the admission fee and rate of tuition fixed under this section for a nonresident student who is a United States citizen who resides in a foreign country, if that nonresident meets all of the following requirements:

(1)Demonstrates a financial need for the exemption.

(2)Has a parent or guardian who has been deported or was permitted to depart voluntarily under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act in accordance with Section 1229c of Title 8 of the United States Code. The student shall provide documents from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services evidencing the deportation or voluntary departure of the student’s parent or guardian.

(3)Moved abroad as a result of the deportation or voluntary departure specified in paragraph (2).

(4)Lived in California immediately before moving abroad. The student shall provide information and evidence that demonstrates the student previously lived in California.

(5)Attended a public or private secondary school, as described in Sections 52 and 53, in the state for three or more years. The student shall provide documents that demonstrate the student’s secondary school attendance.

(6)Upon enrollment, will be in the student’s first academic year as a matriculated student in California public higher education, as that term is defined in subdivision (a) of Section 66010, will be living in California, and will file an affidavit with the institution stating that the student intends to establish residency in California as soon as possible.

§ 89706

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 110, Sec. 3. (SB 701) Effective January 1, 2022.

(a)The trustees may, on the basis of demonstrated financial need and scholastic achievement, waive entirely, or reduce below the rate, or the minimum rate, fixed by Section 89705, the tuition fee of a nonresident student, as defined in Section 68018, who is a citizen and resident of a foreign country, who is an undergraduate student of exceptional scholastic ability and prior scholastic achievement, and who is enrolled in a full-time course of study.

(b)The number of reductions and waivers granted by the trustees under this section shall at no time exceed 7.5 percent of the nonresident undergraduate students who are citizens and residents of a foreign country, then enrolled in the California State

University.

§ 89707

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 110, Sec. 4. (SB 701) Effective January 1, 2022.

(a)The trustees may, on the basis of demonstrated financial need and scholastic achievement, waive entirely, or reduce below the rate, or the minimum rate, fixed by Section 89705, the tuition fee of a nonresident student or a nonresident student, as defined in Section 68018, who is a citizen and resident of a foreign country, who is a graduate student of exceptional scholastic ability and prior scholastic achievement, and who, while not employed full time by a state university, is employed 20 hours or more a week by a state university or is enrolled in a full-time course of study.

(b)The number of reductions and waivers granted by the trustees under this section shall at no time exceed 25 percent of the nonresident graduate

students, including nonresident graduate students who are citizens and residents of a foreign country, then enrolled in the California State University.

§ 89707.5

Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 89301, a nonresident student who is a citizen and resident of a foregin country and not a citizen of the United States may pay the nonresident tuition fee required of such students in three equal installments per semester if attending on the semester system or in two equal installments per quarter if attending on the quarter system. Any such student shall pay all registration fees required of resident students by the same date as required for resident students. The first installment of the nonresident tuition fee for a nonresident student who is a citizen and resident of a foreign country and not a citizen of the United States shall be due no sooner than 30 days following the deadline for payment of registration fees by resident students. The trustees shall establish an appropriate payment schedule for payment of the nonresident tuition fee and may assess a service charge to finance the cost of administering this installment plan consistent with the provisions of this section.

§ 89708

Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 86, Sec. 77. (SB 1171) Effective January 1, 2017.

(a)Tuition fees adequate, in the long run, to meet the cost of maintaining special sessions in the California State University shall be required of, and collected from, students enrolled in each special session pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the trustees.

(b)“Special sessions,” as used in this division, means self-supporting instructional programs conducted by the California State University. The special sessions shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, career enrichment and retraining programs. It is the intent of the Legislature that those programs, currently offered on a self-supporting basis by the California State University during summer sessions, may be provided throughout the year, and shall be known as special sessions. The

self-supporting special sessions shall not supplant, as defined in subdivision (c), regular course offerings available on a non-self-supporting basis during the regular academic year.

(c)“Supplant,” as used in this section, means reducing the number of state-supported course offerings while increasing the number of self-supporting versions of that course.

(d)To the extent possible, each campus shall ensure that any course required as a condition of undergraduate degree completion for a state-supported matriculated student shall be offered as a state-supported course. A campus shall not require a state-supported matriculated student to enroll in a special session course in order to fulfill a graduation requirement for a state-supported degree program.

§ 89709

Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.

The trustees may require and collect special fees to cover cost of materials for specific services and other fees to cover the cost of accommodation services and other services provided students from students enrolled in each special session.

§ 89710

Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 143, Sec. 144.

To enhance the opportunities for California State University employees to participate in training and career development the trustees may, subject to the rules and regulations they may establish, waive entirely or reduce any or all fees for employees who enroll in work-related courses offered by the California State University necessary for improving skills for existing jobs or advancement in accordance with a career development plan at the California State University.

§ 89711

Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 574, Sec. 1. (SB 960) Effective January 1, 2013.

(a)Except as provided for in subdivision (b), a California State University campus-based mandatory fee established through an affirmative vote of the majority of the student body voting on the fee, but not specifically authorized by statute, shall not be reallocated without an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of either the student body or a campus fee advisory committee established under the policies of the California State University voting on the fee reallocation.

(b)A California State University campus-based mandatory fee established through an

affirmative vote of the majority of the student body voting on the fee, but not specifically authorized by statute, may be reallocated without an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of either the student body or a campus fee advisory committee voting on the fee if the vote that established the fee authorized an alternative or automatic reallocation mechanism for that fee.

(c)This section shall not apply to campus-based fees approved prior to the enactment of this section.

§ 89712

Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 86, Sec. 78. (SB 1171) Effective January 1, 2017.

(a)(1) Neither a campus of the California State University, nor the Chancellor of the California State University shall approve a new student success fee or an increase to an existing student success fee, as defined in subdivision (g), before all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(A) The campus undertakes a rigorous consultation process that informs and educates students on the uses, impact, and cost of any proposed student success fee or student success fee increase.

(B) The campus informs its students of all of the following circumstances, which shall apply to these fees:

(i)That, except as provided in

clauses (ii) and (iii), a student success fee may be rescinded by a majority vote of the students, as specified in subdivision (c).

(ii) That a student success fee shall not be rescinded earlier than six years following the vote to implement the fee.

(iii) If any portion of the student success fee is committed to support a long-term obligation, that portion of the fee shall not be rescinded until the obligation has been satisfied.

(C) The campus shall hold a binding student election on the implementation of any proposed student success fees, or any increase to an existing student success fee, and a majority of the student body voting on the fee must vote affirmatively.

(2)Implementation of a fee supported by a majority of the campus student body voting

on the fee is contingent upon the final approval of the Chancellor of the California State University.

(3)A student success fee proposal shall not be brought before the student body more frequently than once per academic year.

(b)A student success fee in place on January 1, 2016, may be rescinded by a binding student vote under the procedures authorized in subdivision (c) only after at least six years have elapsed following the implementation of the fee.

(c)(1) Student success fees may be rescinded with a binding student vote if a simple majority of those students voting vote to rescind the fee. The student vote shall comply with all of the following:

(A) A campus decision to vote is formally approved by the recognized student

government.

(B) Rescission vote proposals shall not be brought before the student body more frequently than once per academic year.

(C) In the process of reconsidering a student success fee, and before the student vote occurs, the students shall be informed, if a portion of the fee is supporting a long-term obligation, the dollar amount of that portion, and the date on which the long-term obligation would be satisfied.

(2)A new contractual or other obligation that would be supported by the rescinded student success fee shall not be entered into following a vote to rescind the fee.

(d)The Chancellor of the California State University shall ensure that all of the following occur on each campus:

(1)There is majority student representation in campus student success fee allocation oversight groups.

(2)There is an annual report from each campus to the chancellor on student success fees.

(3)There is uniform, transparent, online accountability in the decisionmaking process for, and a detailed accounting of, the allocation of student success fees.

(e)The Chancellor of the California State University shall establish appropriate reporting procedures to ensure that a campus is in compliance with the requirements of this section.

(f)The chancellor shall report, by December 1 of each year, to the Department of Finance, and the Legislature pursuant to Section 9795 of the Government Code, a summary of the fees adopted or rescinded in the

prior academic year, and the uses of proposed and currently implemented fees.

(g)For purposes of this section, a “student success fee” is a type of category II campus-based mandatory fee that is required to be paid by a student before that student may enroll or attend a campus of the California State University, as determined by that campus or the Chancellor of the California State University.