text:
The regents may provide in an indenture that the proceeds from the sale of all revenue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter shall be paid directly to any bank or trust company designated by the regents as the fiscal agent or depositary of the regents, to be held in a separate account to be designated the “construction fund” and to be disbursed in the manner and upon the conditions provided in the indenture for any of the following:

(a) The acquisition, construction, and completion of the project, including the payment of the cost of all surveys, preparation of plans and specifications, and the payment of all architectural, engineering, legal, and administrative costs.

(b) The payment of all costs and expenses of, and incident to, the issuance and sale of bonds.

(c) The payment of interest due, or to become due, on the bonds during the period of actual construction, and for such further period as may be specified in the indenture for the issuance of the bonds not exceeding two years after the period of construction.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 4. Indentures


kind: section

code: EDC

text: Moneys in any construction fund may be invested as the regents in its sole discretion shall determine, subject only to such limitations as may be provided in an indenture providing for the issuance of revenue bonds.

history: (History: Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

division: 9. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

part: 57. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 4. Indentures

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text: After all the revenue bonds shall have been fully paid and discharged, or provision for their payment and discharge irrevocably made, any surplus moneys in the construction fund shall, subject to the limitations and restrictions in any indenture providing for the issuance of the revenue bonds, become and be the property of the regents, and be used by the regents for any lawful purpose.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

chapter: 5. The University of California Revenue Bond Act of 1947

article: 4. Indentures


text: The regents may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds for the purpose of redeeming or retiring any revenue bonds issued by the regents. All provisions of this chapter applicable to the issuance of revenue bonds are applicable to the funding or refunding bonds and to the issuance, sale, or exchange of funding or refunding bonds.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 5. Funding or Refunding Bonds

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text: Funding or refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds for the payment of all bonds to be funded or refunded by such funding or refunding bonds, and in addition for the payment of all expenses incident to the calling, retiring, or paying of such outstanding bonds, and the issuance of such funding or refunding bonds. These expenses include the difference in amount between the par value of the funding or refunding bonds and any amount less than par for which the funding or refunding bonds are sold, any amount necessary to be made available for the payment of interest upon such funding or refunding bonds from the date of sale of the funding or refunding bonds to the date of payment of the bonds to be funded or refunded or to the date upon which the bonds to be funded or refunded will be paid pursuant to the call of the bonds to be funded or refunded or agreement with the holders of the bonds to be funded or refunded, and the premium, if any, necessary to be paid in order to call or retire the outstanding bonds and the interest accruing on the outstanding bonds to the date of the call or retirement.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 5. Funding or Refunding Bonds


text: The Regents of the University of California are authorized and empowered to appoint one or more persons to be members of the University of California police department as such police department is constituted on September 19, 1947, or may thereafter be constituted. Persons employed and compensated as members of said police department, when so appointed and duly sworn, are peace officers; provided, that such officers shall not exercise their powers or authority except (a) upon the campuses of the University of California and an area within one mile of the exterior boundaries of each thereof, (b) in or about other grounds or properties owned, operated, controlled or administered by the Regents of the University of California, and (c) as provided in Section 830.2 of the Penal Code.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

chapter: 6. Miscellaneous Provisions

article: 1. University of California Police

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text: Every member of the University of California police department shall be supplied with, and authorized to wear, a badge bearing the words “University of California Police.”

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 1. University of California Police


text:
(a) The regents are urged to direct their Office of the Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) to do all of the following:

(1) Use reasonable efforts to encourage diversity, such as implementing a hiring strategy that requires that candidates from underrepresented groups be given full consideration whenever an OCIO position is to be filled.

(2) Request partner firms it invests in use reasonable efforts to encourage diversity, such as implementing a hiring strategy that requires that candidates from underrepresented groups be given full consideration whenever a position is filled.

(3) Launch an emerging manager program. The OCIO shall define the term “emerging manager” for the purpose of this section.

(4) Encourage startup firms to increase efforts to develop diverse executive teams and to recruit diverse managerial talent, as applicable.

(b) The OCIO shall submit a report to the chairs of the appropriate policy committees of each house of the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2020, describing its progress addressing the requirements of the regents set forth in subdivision (a). The report shall also include pertinent statistics setting forth the OCIO’s internal diversity metrics. The report required by this section shall comply with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

(c) Nothing in this section shall require the regents or the OCIO to take action that is inconsistent with its fiduciary duties.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 912, Sec. 2. (AB 2041) Effective January 1, 2019.)

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text:
(a) The regents are hereby requested to consider, as a component of the University of California’s current systemwide medical education program assessment, the expansion of the Charles R. Drew/UCLA Undergraduate Medical Education Program.

(b) The regents are further requested to submit, not later than June 30, 2003, a report summarizing their findings regarding the Charles R. Drew/UCLA Undergraduate Medical Education Program to the Governor, the Legislature, and the California Postsecondary Education Commission.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1140, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.)

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text:
The minimum and maximum salary limits for laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed on an hourly or per diem basis need not be uniform throughout the state, but the regents shall ascertain, as to each such position, the general prevailing rate of such wages in the various localities of the state.

In fixing such minimum and maximum salary limits within the various localities of the state, the regents shall take into account the prevailing rates of wages in the localities in which the employee is to work and other relevant factors, and shall not fix the minimum salary limits below the general prevailing rate so ascertained for the various localities.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2. Employees

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text:
(a) If the Regents of the University of California adopt the provisions of this section, by appropriate resolution, and subject to subdivision (c), the regents shall grant to an employee, who has exhausted all available sick leave, the following leaves of absence with pay:

(1) A leave of absence, not exceeding 30 days in a one-year period, to an employee who is an organ donor, for the purpose of donating the employee’s organ to another person.

(2) A leave of absence, not exceeding five days in a one-year period, to an employee who is a bone marrow donor, for the purpose of donating the employee’s bone marrow to another person.

(b) If the Regents of the University of California adopt the provisions of this section, by appropriate resolution, and subject to subdivision (c), the regents shall grant an additional unpaid leave of absence, not exceeding 30 business days in a one-year period, to an employee who has exhausted all available sick leave and is an organ donor, for the purpose of donating the employee’s organ to another person.

(c) To receive a leave of absence pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b), an employee shall provide written verification to the regents that the employee is an organ or bone marrow donor and that there is a medical necessity for the donation of the organ or bone marrow.

(d) Any period of time during which an employee is required to be absent from the employee’s position by reason of being an organ or bone marrow donor is not a break in the employee’s continuous service for the purpose of the employee’s right to salary adjustments, sick leave, vacation, annual leave, or seniority.

(e) If an employee is unable to return to work beyond the time or period that the employee is granted leave pursuant to this section, the employee shall be paid any vacation balance, annual leave balance, or accumulated compensable overtime. The payment shall be computed by projecting the accumulated time on a calendar basis as though the employee was taking time off. If, during the period of projection, the employee is able to return to work, the employee shall be returned to the employee’s former position.

(f) 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 those 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.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 316, Sec. 2. (AB 1223) Effective January 1, 2020.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2. Employees


text:
(a) The regents are urged to offer, on at least a semiannual basis, to each of the university’s filers, an orientation course on the relevant ethics statutes and regulations that govern the official conduct of university officials.

(b) As used in this section, “filer” means each member, officer, or designated employee of the University of California, including a regent, who, because of his or her affiliation with the university or any subdivision or campus thereof, is required to file a statement of economic interests in accordance with Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 87100) of Title 9 of the Government Code.

(c) The regents shall maintain records indicating the specific attendees, each attendee’s job title, and dates of their attendance for each orientation course offered pursuant to this section. These records shall be maintained for a period of at least five years after each course is offered. These records shall be public records subject to inspection and copying in accordance with Section 81008 of the Government Code and any other public records disclosure laws that are applicable to the university.

(d) Except as provided in subdivision (e), each filer shall attend the orientation course established pursuant to subdivision (a) in accordance with both of the following:

(1) For a person who, as of January 1, 2005, is a filer, as defined in subdivision (b), not later than December 31, 2005, and thereafter, at least once during each consecutive period of two calendar years commencing on January 1, 2007.

(2) For a person who becomes a filer, as defined in subdivision (b), after January 1, 2005, within six months after he or she becomes a filer, and at least once during each consecutive period of two calendar years commencing on January 1 of the first odd-numbered year thereafter.

(e) The requirements of subdivision (d) do not apply to a filer, as defined in subdivision (b), who has taken an ethics orientation course through another state agency or the Legislature within the periods set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (d) if, in the determination of the regents, that course covered substantially the same material as the course the university would offer to the filer pursuant to this section.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 138. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2016.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2. Employees


text: It is the intent of the Legislature that the University of California carefully monitor the use and effects of the contracting of services at newly developed facilities. In order to assist in an improved understanding of such impacts, the university is requested to report annually to the fiscal committees of the Legislature, on or before January 15 of each year, the extent to which it has chosen to contract for services, the rationale for those decisions, the cost implications of those decisions, the impact on hiring, and the extent to which the hiring and contracting practices are at variance with the practices at existing facilities.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 386, Sec. 19. (AB 1182) Effective January 1, 2010.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2. Employees


text:
(a) Every individual shall have the right of access to all personal information, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1798.3 of the Civil Code, contained in any employee record that is maintained by the University of California that pertains to the individual.

(b) If information relating to the employment, advancement, renewal of appointment, or promotion of any individual in an academic senate position is received with the promise or understanding that the identity of the source of the information would be held in confidence, the university shall provide a copy of the text of that information to the individual to whom the information pertains with only the deletion of the name and affiliation, if any, of the source. “Information,” as used in this subdivision, shall be limited to letters of recommendation, and reports of faculty review committees compiled for the purpose of determining the qualifications of members of the academic senate for employment, advancement, renewal of appointment, or promotion.

(c) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall not apply to any personal information, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1798.3 of the Civil Code, received prior to January 1, 1979, with the promise or understanding that the identity of the source of the personal information would be held in confidence.

(d) Subdivisions (b) and (c) shall not be applicable to the University of California unless adopted by the regents.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 8, Sec. 47. Effective April 15, 1993.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2. Employees


text:
(a) The regents are requested, as part of the hiring process for an applicant applying for an academic, athletic, or administrative position with the University of California, to do both of the following:

(1) Require an applicant to disclose any final administrative decision or final judicial decision issued within the last seven years from the date of submission of the application determining that the applicant committed misconduct, including sexual harassment.

(2) Permit applicants to disclose if they have filed an appeal with the previous employer, administrative agency, or court, if applicable.

(b) The University of California is requested to not ask an applicant to disclose, orally or in writing, information concerning any final administrative decision or final judicial decision described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), including any inquiry about an applicable decision on any employment application, until the University of California has determined that the applicant meets the minimum employment qualifications stated in the notice issued for the position.

(c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) “Final administrative decision” means the written determination of whether or not sexual harassment occurred as determined by the decisionmaker following the final investigative report and a hearing, if a hearing is either required pursuant to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.) or federal regulations implementing those provisions, or is required by the public postsecondary educational institution’s written policy on sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, and related grievance processes. If a party has filed a timely grievance or appeal, “final administrative decision” means after the grievance or appeal decision has been issued.

(2) “Final judicial decision” means a final determination of a matter submitted to a court that is recorded in a judgment or order of that court.

(3) “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies governing employee conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.

(4) “Sexual harassment” has the same meaning as described in subdivision (a) of Section 66262.5 or, if applicable, as defined by the federal regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.).

history: (History: Amended (as added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 415, Sec. 3) by Stats. 2024, Ch. 673, Sec. 6. (AB 810) Effective January 1, 2025.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2. Employees


text:
(a) The regents are requested, as part of the hiring process for an applicant applying for a position with the University of California, to do both of the following:

(1) Require an applicant to sign a release form that authorizes, in the event the applicant reaches the final stages of the application process, the release of information by the applicant’s previous employers to the campus of the University of California concerning any substantiated allegations of misconduct in order to permit the campus to evaluate the released information with respect to the criteria for a potential job placement.

(2) If an applicant reaches the final stages of the application process for the intended position, require campuses of the University of California to use the release form signed pursuant to paragraph (1) to engage in a reasonable attempt to obtain information from the previous employer concerning any substantiated allegations of misconduct.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the regents apply all provisions of this section to all persons who apply for an academic or athletic position with the University of California.

(c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) “Applicant” means a person who submits an employment application for an intended tenure-track faculty position, tenured faculty position, athletic head coach position, athletic assistant coach position, athletic trainer position, or supervising athletic trainer position, but does not include a person who is a current employee and is hired or rehired for a different position with the same campus.

(2) “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies governing employee conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.

(3) “Substantiated allegation” means an allegation that has been sustained based upon a burden of proof of at least a preponderance of the evidence.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 673, Sec. 7. (AB 810) Effective January 1, 2025.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2. Employees


text:
(a) The University of California may require background checks, to be completed by the Department of Justice pursuant to subdivision (b), during the final stages of the recruitment process for a prospective staff employee, contractor, or volunteer.

(b) (1) The University of California shall submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images of a prospective staff employee, contractor, or volunteer, that the University of California obtains pursuant to subdivision (a), and related information required by the Department of Justice, for purposes of a state- and federal-level criminal history background check in accordance with subdivision (u) of Section 11105 of the Penal Code.

(2) The Department of Justice shall provide a state or federal response, or both if applicable, to the University of California pursuant to subdivision (p) of Section 11105 of the Penal Code.

(c) This section does not authorize hiring practices that are inconsistent with the requirements of Section 12952 of the Government Code.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 113, Sec. 27. (SB 160) Effective September 17, 2025.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2. Employees


text: The Legislature hereby finds and declares that this section is intended to satisfy the requirements prescribed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA). Section 3121(b)(7)(F) of the Internal Revenue Code requires that employees of the University of California must be covered by social security, or, in the alternative, be provided benefits through a qualified pension plan or annuity program. Therefore, to facilitate compliance with these requirements, the Legislature hereby encourages and empowers the Regents of the University of California to take all steps necessary to implement a qualified defined contribution plan for their employees, and to that end to withhold as deferred compensation from the wages otherwise payable to those employees up to 7.5 percent of wages, as the term “wages” is defined for social security purposes, or the other amount as may be required as an alternative to social security contributions.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 986, Sec. 1. Effective September 28, 1992.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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text: The provisions of Section 92613 shall supersede Sections 3560 to 3599, inclusive, of the Government Code and any memorandum of understanding entered into pursuant to those sections, for any employees hired or rehired on or after the effective date of this act.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 2.5. Retirement Plan for Employees Excluded from theUniversity of California Retirement System


text:
(a) The Legislature requests that the Regents of the University of California assemble a colloquium of scholars to draft a research proposal to analyze the economic benefits of slavery that accrued to owners and the businesses, including insurance companies and their subsidiaries, that received those benefits. The colloquium shall draw on the resources and knowledge of historians and other scholars from across the nation as well as California, and interested parties shall also be invited to participate.

(b) As resources allow, the State Library shall participate in the effort required by this section. The State Library shall examine the economic legacy of slavery in California, including forced slavery, chattel slavery, and indentured servitude.

(c) The Legislature further requests that the Regents of the University of California make recommendations to the Legislature regarding the colloquium’s findings on or before January 1, 2002.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1038, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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text:
(a) As used in this article, the following definitions apply:

(1) “Act” means the California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 2001 established pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 8010) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Health and Safety Code.

(2) “Institution” means a campus of the University of California.

(b) On or before June 30, 2024, and annually thereafter, the University of California is strongly urged to report each institution’s progress towards completing repatriation pursuant to the act.

(c) The office of the President of the University of California is strongly urged to provide available funding to sufficiently support each institution’s efforts towards completing repatriation pursuant to the act.

(d) The University of California is strongly urged to prohibit use of any Native American human remains or cultural items for purposes of teaching or research at the University of California.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 639, Sec. 1. (AB 226) Effective January 1, 2024.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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text: It is the intent of the Legislature that the Regents of the University of California shall eliminate all policies that detrimentally and unreasonably affect the employment status of females hired by the university.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 278. Effective January 1, 1996.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 3. Employment of Women

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text:
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) In the course of fulfilling its educational mission, the University of California is required to participate in the marketplace, both as a purchaser of goods and services and as a provider of services to its customers, such as students who contract with the university for room and board and medical consumers who utilize the university’s hospitals and clinics. In that role, the university also functions as a proprietor of real property and other physical assets located at its campuses and medical facilities.

(b) In the marketplace, the university must make prudent business decisions, as does any private business entity, to ensure efficient and cost-effective management of its business concerns, and to maximize benefit and minimize risk. One of those risks is the possibility of labor-management conflict arising out of labor union organizing campaigns. This conflict can adversely affect the university’s operation of facilities in which it has a proprietary business interest by causing an interruption in service.

(c) A major potential source of labor-management conflict that threatens the economic interests of the university as a participant in the marketplace is the possibility of economic action taken by labor unions against employers when labor unions seek to organize their workers over employer opposition to unionization. Experience has demonstrated that organizing drives pursuant to formal and adversarial union certification processes often deteriorate into protracted and acrimonious labor-management conflicts.

(d) One way to reduce risk where the university has a proprietary interest in the operation of its facilities is to require, as a condition of the university’s entering into a lease or service contract, that employers operating in the facility agree to a lawful, nonconfrontational alternative process for resolving a union organizing campaign. That alternative process is a so-called “cardcheck,” wherein employee preference regarding whether or not to be represented by a labor union to act as their exclusive collective bargaining representative is determined based on signed authorization cards. Private employers are authorized under existing federal law to agree voluntarily to use this procedure in lieu of election procedures under the supervision of the National Labor Relations Board.

(e) The sole purpose of this article is to protect the university’s proprietary interest in the operation of its facilities and to assume the university’s ability to procure and provide uninterrupted services in the marketplace. This article is not enacted to favor any particular outcome in the determination of employee preference regarding union representation, nor to skew the procedures in that determination to favor or hinder any party to the determination. Likewise, this article is not intended to enact or express any generally applicable policy regarding labor-management relations, or to regulate those relations in any way, but is intended only to protect the university’s proprietary interest as a participant in the marketplace.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1040, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 3.5. Cardcheck Agreements

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text:
As used in this article:

(a) “Cardcheck agreement” means a written agreement between an employer and a labor organization providing a procedure for determining employee preference on the subject of whether to be represented by a labor organization for collective bargaining, and if so, by which labor organization to be represented, that provides, at a minimum, the following:

(1) The determination of employee preference regarding union representation shall be by a cardcheck procedure conducted by a neutral third party in lieu of a formal election.

(2) All disputes over interpretation or application of the parties’ cardcheck agreement, and over issues regarding how to carry out the cardcheck process or specific cardcheck procedures shall be submitted to binding arbitration.

(3) The forbearance by any labor organization from economic action against the employer at the worksite of an organizing drive covered by this section, and in relation to an organizing campaign only (not to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement), so long as the employer complies with the terms of the cardcheck agreement.

(4) Language and procedures prohibiting the labor organization or the employer from coercing or intimidating employees, explicitly or implicitly, in selecting or not selecting a bargaining representative.

(b) “Collective bargaining agreement” means an agreement between an employer and a labor organization regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment of the employer’s employees. For purposes of this article, a collective bargaining agreement does not include a cardcheck agreement as defined in subdivision (a).

(c) “Facility” means any campus, school, cafeteria, store, hospital, clinic, institute, laboratory, or office owned or operated by the university, or at which the normal educational or administrative functions of the university are conducted.

(d) “Labor organization” means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions or work.

(e) “Proprietary interest” means any nonregulatory arrangement or circumstances in which the financial or other nonregulatory interests of the university in a service contract could be adversely affected by labor-management conflict or consumer boycotts potentially resulting from a union organizing campaign.

(f) “Service contract” means a lease, management agreement, service agreement, loan bond, guarantee, or other similar agreement to which the university is a party and in which the university has a proprietary interest.

(g) “Service contractor” means an individual, corporation, unincorporated association, partnership, or other entity, other than a collection agency retained by the university to enforce a financial obligation owed to the university, that, pursuant to a service contract, provides goods or services to the university.

(h) “University” means the University of California and its governing body, the Regents of the University of California.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 3.5. Cardcheck Agreements


text:
(a) A service contractor shall enter into and comply with a cardcheck agreement, as defined in Section 92625.1, with any labor organization that requests the agreement for the purpose of seeking to represent the service contractor’s employees performing services covered by the service contract. If a service contractor enters into a cardcheck agreement with a labor organization, it shall offer that same agreement to any other labor organization seeking to represent the service contractor’s employees. Any labor organization that was not a party to the initial cardcheck agreement may, in its discretion, reject the terms negotiated by the first union, and negotiate for a different cardcheck agreement. In the event that a labor organization and the service contractor are unable to negotiate an agreement within the 30-day period, this section shall apply.

(b) The university shall include in any service contract a provision requiring any service contractor to abide by the requirements imposed under subdivision (a) as essential consideration for the university entering into the service contract.

(c) All requests for proposals or invitations to bid or similar documents regarding service contracts shall include a summary description of, and reference to, the policy and requirements of this article. Failure to include the description or reference to this article in a document may not exempt any service contractor otherwise subject to the requirements of this article.

(d) This article may not apply to any service contractor signatory to a valid and binding collective bargaining agreement covering the terms and conditions of employment for its employees performing services subject to the service contract, which includes a no-strike provision, and which extends at least through the term of the service contract.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 3.5. Cardcheck Agreements


text: The university or any other interested party may bring an action for an injunction or specific performance in order to secure compliance with the requirements of this article. The university shall also have the right to terminate the service contract, upon 30 days’ written notice to the service contractor, to cure its breach, where the service contractor has failed to comply with the requirements of this article.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 3.5. Cardcheck Agreements


text: If any provision of this article is declared illegal, invalid, or inoperative, in whole or in part, by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions and portions thereof and applications not declared illegal, invalid, or inoperative shall remain in full force or effect. Nothing in this article may be construed to impair any contractual obligations of the university. This article may not be applied to the extent it will cause the loss of any federal or state funding of university activities.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 3.5. Cardcheck Agreements


text: This article shall apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California act, by resolution, to make it applicable.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 3.5. Cardcheck Agreements


text:
(a) The regents and alumni associations may distribute the names, addresses, and email addresses of alumni of the University of California to a business as described in subdivision (b) in order to accomplish any or all of the following:

(1) To provide those persons with informational materials relating to the university or college and its programs and activities.

(2) To provide those persons, the regents, and the alumni associations with commercial opportunities that provide a benefit to those persons, or to the regents or the alumni associations.

(3) To promote and support the educational mission of the university, the regents, or the alumni associations.

(b) The disclosures authorized in subdivision (a) shall be permitted only if all of the following requirements are met:

(1) (A) The regents or the alumni associations have a written agreement with a business, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1798.80 of the Civil Code, that maintains control over this data that requires the business to maintain the confidentiality of the names, addresses, and email addresses of the alumni, that requires that the University of California retain the right to approve or reject any purpose for which the private information is to be used by the business and to review and approve the text of mailings sent to alumni pursuant to this section, and that prohibits the business from using the information for purposes other than those described in subdivision (a). The text of a mailing intended to be sent to alumni pursuant to this section shall not be approved by the regents or the affected alumni association unless and until the mailing conspicuously identifies the university or the alumni association as associated with the business described in the mailing.

(B) If an affinity partner, as defined in Section 4054.6 of the Financial Code, sends any message to an email address obtained pursuant to this section, that message shall include at least both of the following:

(i) The identity of the sender of the message.

(ii) A cost-free means for the recipient to notify the sender not to electronically transmit any further message to the recipient.

(2) The regents or an alumni association shall not disclose to, or share a consumer’s nonpublic personal information with, a business, as defined in paragraph (1), unless the institution, association, or organization has clearly and conspicuously notified the consumer pursuant to subdivision (c), that the nonpublic personal information may be disclosed to the business and that the alumnus has not directed that the nonpublic personal information not be disclosed.

(3) The disclosure of alumni names, addresses, and email addresses does not include the names, addresses, and email addresses of alumni who, pursuant to subdivision (c) or in another manner, have directed the regents or an alumni association not to disclose their names, addresses, or email addresses.

(4) Information regarding either of the following is not disclosed:

(A) The current students of the University of California.

(B) An alumnus who, as a student of a campus of the University of California, indicated that, pursuant to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (Public Law 93-380), he or she did not wish his or her name, address, and email address to be disclosed.

(c) (1) The regents or the affected alumni association shall satisfy the notice requirements of subdivision (b) if it uses the form set forth in paragraph (2). The form set forth in this subdivision or a form that complies with subparagraphs (A) to (J), inclusive, shall be provided by the regents or the alumni association to the alumnus as required in this subdivision, and shall describe the nature of the information the alumnus would receive should the alumnus choose not to opt out, so that the alumnus may make a decision and provide direction to the regents and the alumni association regarding the sharing of his or her name, address, and email address:

(A) The form uses the title “IMPORTANT PRIVACY CHOICE” and the header, if applicable, as follows: “Restrict Information Sharing With Affinity Partners.”

(B) The titles and headers in the form are clearly and conspicuously displayed, and no text in the form is smaller than 10-point type.

(C) The form may be provided as a separate document, incorporated into another communication piece intended for the target audience, or provided through a link to the form located on the Internet Web site of the regents, the affected alumni association, or the affected auxiliary organization. If the form is provided through a link to an Internet Web page, it shall be accompanied by the title “IMPORTANT PRIVACY CHOICE” and a clear and concise description of the choice that can be made by accessing the form. This requirement may be met by using text materially similar to the first paragraph of the form set forth in paragraph (2).

(D) The choice or choices provided in the form are stated separately, and may be selected by checking a box.

(E) The form is designed to call attention to the nature and significance of the information in the document.

(F) The form presents information in clear and concise sentences, paragraphs, and sections.

(G) The form uses short explanatory sentences of an average of 15 to 20 words, or bullet lists whenever possible.

(H) The form avoids multiple negatives, legal terminology, and highly technical terminology whenever possible.

(I) The form avoids explanations that are imprecise and readily subject to different interpretations.

(J) The form is not more than one page.

(2) The form reads as follows:

IMPORTANT PRIVACY CHOICE

You have the right to control whether we share your name, address, and email address with our affinity partners (companies that we partner with to offer products or services to our alumni). Please read the following information carefully before you make your choice below:

Your Rights

You have the following rights to restrict the sharing of your name, address, and email address with our affinity partners. This form does not prohibit us from sharing your information when we are required to do so by law. This includes sending you information about the alumni association, the university, or other products or services.

Your Choice

Restrict Information Sharing With Affinity Partners:

Unless you say “NO,” we may share your name, address, and email address with our affinity partners. Our affinity partners may send you offers to purchase various products or services that we may have agreed they can offer in partnership with us.

( ) NO, please do not share my name, address, and email address with your affinity partners.

Time Sensitive Reply

You may decide at any time that you do not want us to share your information with our partners. Your choice marked here will remain unless you state otherwise. However, if we do not hear from you, we may share your name, address, and email address with our affinity partners.

If you decide that you do not want to receive information from our partners, you may do one of the following:

(1) Call this toll-free telephone number: (xxx-xxx-xxxx).

(2) Reply electronically by contacting us through the following Internet option: xxxxxxxxxxxx.com.

(3) Fill out, sign, and send back this form to us at the following address (you may want to make a copy for your records).

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Name:

Address:

Signature:

(3) (A) The regents or the affected alumni association shall not be in violation of this subdivision solely because they include in the form one or more brief examples or explanations of the purpose or purposes for which, or the context within which, names, addresses, and email addresses will be shared, as long as those examples meet the clarity and readability standards set forth in paragraph (1).

(B) (i) The solicitation to students, upon their graduation, from the regents or the alumni association, encouraging students to join the alumni association or to avail themselves of the services or benefits of the association, shall include the form.

(ii) The alumni association magazine or newsletter, or both, shall include the form on an annual or more frequent basis.

(iii) The Internet Web site for the alumni association shall include a link to the form, which shall be located on either the homepage of the association’s Internet Web site or in the association’s privacy policy.

(iv) A one-time mailing to all alumni on the university or college mailing list as of January 1, 2006, shall include the form.

(v) An annual electronic communication to those alumni for whom electronic mail addresses are available, shall include the form.

(4) The regents or the affected alumni associations shall provide at least two alternative cost-free means for alumni to communicate their privacy choice, such as calling a toll-free telephone number, or using electronic means. The regents or the alumni association shall clearly and conspicuously disclose in the form required by this subdivision the information necessary to direct the alumnus on how to communicate his or her choices, including the toll-free telephone or facsimile number or Internet Web site address that may be used, if those means of communication are offered.

(5) (A) An alumnus may direct at any time that his or her name, address, and email address not be disclosed. The regents or the affected alumni association shall comply with the direction of an alumnus concerning the sharing of his or her name, address, and email address within 45 days of receipt by the regents or the alumni association. When an alumnus directs that his or her name, address, or email address not be disclosed, that direction is in effect until otherwise stated by the alumnus.

(B) This subdivision does not prohibit the disclosure of the name, address, or email address of an alumnus as allowed by other applicable state laws.

(6) The regents or the affected alumni association may provide a joint notice from the regents or from one or more alumni associations, as identified in the notice, so long as the notice is accurate with respect to the regents and the alumni association or associations participating in the joint notice.

(d) This section shall not be construed to authorize the release of any social security numbers.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 86, Sec. 79. (SB 1171) Effective January 1, 2017.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 4. Alumni

path: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION > 9. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA > 57. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA > 6. Miscellaneous Provisions > 4. Alumni


text: This article shall apply to the University of California only to the extent that the regents act, by resolution, to make it applicable. This article shall apply to the college named in Section 92200 only to the extent that the Board of Directors of the college named in Section 92200 acts, by resolution, to make it applicable.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 478, Sec. 27. (AB 1936) Effective January 1, 2023.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 4. Alumni


text: The Regents of the University of California shall develop policies and procedures to ensure that each campus of the university, in administering any test or examination, permits any student who is eligible to undergo the test or examination to do so, without penalty, at a time when that activity would not violate the student’s religious creed. This requirement shall not apply in the event that administering the test or examination at an alternate time would impose an undue hardship that could not reasonably have been avoided. In any court proceeding in which the existence of an undue hardship that could not reasonably have been avoided is an issue, the burden of proof shall be upon the institution.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 193, Sec. 16. Effective January 1, 2005.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 5. Accommodation of Religious Creed

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text:
It is the intent of the Legislature that all of the following occur:

(a) That, pursuant to funding to be appropriated in the Budget Act of 2007, the Regents of the University of California should offer at least 175 full-time equivalent students in baccalaureate degree nursing programs, at least 140 state-supported full-time equivalent students in accelerated master’s level nursing programs, including entry-level master’s programs and entry-level master’s clinical programs, at least 41 full-time equivalent associate degree nursing (ADN) transitional to bachelor’s of science of nursing (BSN) and full-time equivalent master of science of nursing (MSN) students, and at least 40 full-time equivalent students in traditional master of science in nursing (MSN) degree programs by the 2007–08 academic year.

(b) That the regents provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature on or before March 15, 2007, on the proposed expenditure plans to expand nursing programs to enroll the additional students identified in subdivision (a).

(c) That the expansion of future baccalaureate, accelerated master’s degree, ADN transitional to BSN and MSN degrees, and traditional MSN degree nursing enrollment be supported with appropriations in the annual Budget Act.

(d) That the funding for the baccalaureate degree enrollment expansions referenced in this section be funded within the general enrollment growth funding that is traditionally provided to the University of California during the annual state budget process.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 522, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2008.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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text:
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to review, during the annual budget process, the current University of California health sciences program and to assess the following with regard to General Fund support of the system:

(1) The appropriate number and balance between primary and nonprimary care residency positions.

(2) The relationship between the General Fund resource capacity to support the current physician output of the system and the costs to the General Fund of an oversupply of physician specialists.

(3) The current and projected pattern of health manpower training in relationship to future supply and demand projections.

(4) The distribution of University of California medical school graduates with regard to placement in areas, and service to populations, underserved by the medical profession.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to monitor the new, comprehensive plan currently under development by the University of California for programs in health professions education, and, upon the completion of that plan, to monitor, during the annual budget process, both the compliance of the university with its plan and the plan’s relevance to the state’s need for health professionals and health care services.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1509, Sec. 1.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Health Sciences Program Review

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text: The Legislature requests the Regents of the University of California, to the extent possible, to use existing resources to establish dental, medical, and optometric health professions outreach and exposure programs for elementary, high school, and undergraduate students, including community college students.

history: (History: Added by renumbering Section 92665.1 by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 70. Effective January 1, 2003.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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text:
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) In 1998, the State of California enacted Senate Bill 1785 (Chapter 752 of the Statutes of 1998) to create new minimum standards for California animal shelters and establish the state’s policy that no adoptable or treatable animal should be euthanized.

(b) Since 1998, many California communities have made meaningful strides to reduce the deaths of homeless animals. Public and private sources have funded more low-cost programs for dog and cat spaying and neutering. Animal shelters have sought to modernize their facilities and practices to keep animals healthier during their time at the shelter. Public education campaigns have promoted the importance of adopting pets, and a growing number of private rescue groups have been formed, increasing the degree to which they assist shelters in finding new homes for animals.

(c) Although the number of deaths in California’s animal shelters fell from more than 500,000 in 1998 to an estimated 180,000 in 2018, the state’s longstanding policy goal has not yet been achieved in every community.

(d) The University of California houses the nation’s premier animal sheltering research, service, and teaching program. The shelter medicine program at the University of California, Davis promotes a welfare-centric, life-saving approach to the management of animals in shelters, focused on prevention and grounded in science. The program has been working with shelters across California since its inception, providing advice covering facility design, shelter management, animal husbandry, and myriad veterinary health issues that are unique to sheltering environments.

(e) With an intentional focus on and partnership with communities around California, the state will be well positioned to achieve the state’s policy goal that no adoptable or treatable animal should be euthanized.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 144, Sec. 67. (AB 132) Effective July 27, 2021.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6.4. Animal Shelter Assistance Act

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(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that a five-year program, which shall be known as the Animal Shelter Assistance Program, be established to support the state’s policy goal that no adoptable or treatable animal is euthanized, and that the program be administered by the University of California pursuant to all of the following principles:

(1) The program shall provide support to all California animal shelters in the form of outreach, regional conferences, and provision of web-based resources based on current best practices. Best practices may include, but is not limited to, all of the following:

(A) Reducing intake by providing other solutions to keep animals safe and healthy in their homes, which may include spay or neuter as part of that approach, as well as vaccination, microchipping, and setting up technology and communication to help pet owners rehome their own pets instead of taking them to a shelter.

(B) Improving animal health and care in the shelter, which may include adequate housing, good ventilation, appropriate treatment and isolation facilities as well as good husbandry practices to help animals stay healthy, lower costs, and increase adoptions.

(C) Removing barriers to live outcomes, which may include technology, staffing and capacity solutions, and expanding spay or neuter capacity to keep up with outflow. This may also include systems to reunite lost pets and developing an adoption presence in the community.

(2) The program shall offer in-person assessments and in-depth online training to California city, county, or city and county animal control agencies or shelters, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and humane societies, upon request and as feasible.

(3) As a supplement to its outreach and programmatic support, the program shall administer a grant program to aid implementation of best practices in California animal shelters. All funds shall be awarded on the basis of need as determined by an open, competitive process that ensures objectivity, fairness, and sustainability. All California city, county, or city and county animal control agencies or shelters, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and humane societies shall have access and opportunity to voluntarily compete for the funds. The program shall do all of the following:

(A) Develop criteria, procedures, and accountability measures as may be necessary to implement the grant program.

(B) Administer the grant program to ensure that priority is given to underserved populations, including both urban and rural areas and low-income communities, where achievement of the state’s goal that no adoptable or treatable animal is euthanized has not yet been met.

(C) In developing criteria, procedures, and accountability measures, include a focus on preventing pet overpopulation, such as measures to offer no or low cost spay or neuter services.

(4) For purposes of this section, a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals or a humane society shall be a California corporation, duly incorporated in the State of California, in active status, as described on the business search page of the Secretary of State’s internet website, and exempt from federal income taxation as an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(5) For purposes of this section, the program is encouraged to prioritize assistance for California city, county, or city and county animal control agencies or shelters, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and humane societies that are current on relevant data reporting required under law, and that offer the greatest likely return on one-time investment of state funds.

(b) In designing and promoting the services outlined in subdivision (a), the program shall seek input from relevant stakeholders to ensure that program services and grants effectively reach a wide geography throughout the state, and that regions in northern, central, and southern California, including both urban and rural areas, are adequately considered, with an emphasis on addressing the lifesaving needs within these regions.

(c) The program may give additional consideration to working with communities that do any of the following:

(1) Seek to maximize the number of animals whose lives can be saved.

(2) Demonstrate partnerships among public, private, corporate, or nonprofit entities.

(3) Emphasize volunteer engagement and community outreach components for purposes of increasing the sustainability of the program’s investments.

(d) (1) On or before March 31, 2023, the University of California shall report to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance on the program. At a minimum, the report shall include all of the following information:

(A) The amount spent on each type of activity set forth in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (a).

(B) Pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), a summary of the outreach activities that were supported by funds.

(C) Pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), a list of shelters that received in-person assessments and in-depth training.

(D) Pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), a list of grant recipients, along with each recipient’s grant amount, the amount of matching funds, if any, and a description of the funded activities.

(E) An analysis of the program’s impact on the number of animals that are euthanized for all shelters participating in the activities described in paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (a). The analysis shall include annual data on the number of animals that were euthanized at least five years preceding the establishment of the program and throughout the duration of the program. To the extent possible, the analysis shall use the best available data to estimate the number of treatable and adoptable animals that are euthanized in the state. The University of California, Davis Koret Shelter Medicine program may require any data from program participants as needed to complete this analysis.

(F) A long-term plan to sustain any improvements in euthanized rates once the one-time funding expires and continue progressing toward the state’s policy objective that no adoptable or treatable animal be euthanized.

(G) Financial information on the University of California, Davis Koret Shelter Medicine program, including funding by source, spending by program and function, and end-of-year fund balances. The report shall include this information for the 2018–19 through 2023–24 fiscal years.

(2) On or before March 31, 2026, the University of California shall submit a second report to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance on the program. At a minimum, the report shall include all of the information described in paragraph (1).

(e) Subject to the conditions and requirements established elsewhere in statute, the State Department of Public Health and the Department of Food and Agriculture shall provide to the program, upon proper request, data that will help ensure effective administration of the program.

(f) Toward these ends, the Legislature requests the Regents of the University of California to establish the Animal Shelter Assistance Program and direct the University of California, Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program to administer the program pursuant to, and consistent with, the principles and goals stated in this article.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6.4. Animal Shelter Assistance Act


text:
(a) In order to ensure that current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth who are students at campuses of the University of California have stable housing, each campus of the University of California that maintains student housing facilities shall give priority to current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth. In addition, each campus of the University of California that maintains student housing facilities open for occupation during school breaks, or on a year-round basis, shall first give priority to current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth for residence in the housing facilities for which they are eligible that are open for uninterrupted year-round occupation and provide this housing to current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth at no extra cost during academic or campus breaks, and next give priority to current or former homeless youth and current and former foster youth for residence in the housing facilities for which they are eligible that are open for occupation during the most days in the calendar year.

(b) In addition, a campus of the University of California is requested to develop a plan to ensure that current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth can access housing resources as needed during and between academic terms, including during academic and campus breaks, regardless of whether the campus maintains student housing facilities.

(c) As used in this section, a “homeless youth” means a student under 25 years of age, who has been verified, in the case of a former homeless youth, at any time during the 24 months immediately preceding the receipt of his or her application for admission by a campus of the University of California, as a homeless child or youth, as defined in subsection (2) of Section 725 of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11434a(2)), by at least one of the following:

(1) A homeless services provider, as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 103577 of the Health and Safety Code.

(2) The director, or his or her designee, of a federal TRIO program or a Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs program.

(3) A financial aid administrator.

(d) For purposes of this section, a student who is verified as a former homeless youth pursuant to subdivision (c) shall retain that status for a period of six years from the date of admission.

(e) This section shall not apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make this section applicable.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 571, Sec. 4. (AB 1228) Effective January 1, 2016.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6.5. Housing

path: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION > 9. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA > 57. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA > 6. Miscellaneous Provisions > 6.5. Housing


text:
(a) Subject to the availability of funds in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, the office of the President of the University of California shall provide each participating campus with funding to support postsecondary education programs for foster youth and former foster youth. The office of the President of the University of California shall develop a funding formula that allocates funding to each campus that offers a foster youth support program. The formula may authorize each participating campus to maintain a minimum baseline funding amount. The formula shall be based on the number of students participating in the program at each participating campus.

(b) Funding allocated to each campus pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be used to provide support services to students who are foster youth and former foster youth, which may include, but are not limited to, outreach and recruitment, consultation and eligibility verification, consultation and referrals for students deemed ineligible, service coordination, counseling and academic advising, grants for books, supplies, tutoring, childcare, housing, or transportation, independent living and financial literacy skills support, frequent in-person contact, career guidance, referrals to health services, mental health services, housing assistance, and other related services, and direct financial support.

(c) A campus program may provide all the services described in subdivision (b) to enrolled students who are foster youth or former foster youth but whose courses have not yet commenced, if those services are necessary to enable the student to be successful upon the commencement of the academic term. Funding may also be used to support these services during the summer term for students enrolled in the upcoming fall term.

(d) Each participating campus shall offer all of the following as part of its program provided pursuant to this section:

(1) A full-time designated staff program director or coordinator with experience relevant to working with foster youth and former foster youth.

(2) Campus office and meeting space.

(3) A range of student supports to address academic and nonacademic needs.

(4) Opportunities for peer mentors.

(e) To the extent possible, services provided under this section, including those required pursuant to subdivision (d), shall supplement, and shall not supplant, other services provided by the state, a county, or a campus. Where existing targeted programs for foster youth and former foster youth exist on campus, funding shall be used to continue and expand these programs.

(f) Commencing March 31, 2024, and every two years thereafter, the office of the President of the University of California shall submit a report to the Department of Finance and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee describing all of the following:

(1) Efforts during the previous academic year to serve students who are foster youth and former foster youth, including uses of the funding allocated pursuant to subdivision (a) and uses of other internal and external resources supporting foster youth services.

(2) Enrollment, retention, and completion rate data for students who are foster youth and former foster youth and participated in programs funded pursuant to this section on a campus-by-campus basis, and other metrics as appropriate.

(3) As feasible, systemwide data on enrollment, retention, and completion rates for students who are foster youth and former foster youth and participated in programs funded pursuant to this section, and other metrics as appropriate, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 54, Sec. 45. (AB 183) Effective June 30, 2022.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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text:
(a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the University of California and California State University Collaborative for Neurodiversity and Learning.

(b) The goal of this article is to establish a joint University of California and California State University initiative that will bring together the state’s resources and leading experts in brain research and K–12 education to strengthen educational support and new teaching methods for children with diverse learning needs, including children with dyslexia and literacy issues.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 53, Sec. 27. (SB 77) Effective July 1, 2019.)

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text:
The University of California, Los Angeles and the California State University, Dominguez Hills, along with California State University campuses serving the Los Angeles Basin selected by the Trustees of the California State University, shall form a neurodiversity and learning collaborative to do all of the following:

(a) Develop a network of brain researchers and educators to share new knowledge on neurodiversity.

(b) Identify and develop links between brain research and classroom practice.

(c) Create a framework for embedding neurodiversity knowledge into the teacher education programs at the University of California and the California State University.

(d) Provide an opportunity for innovative experts in neuroscience and education to collaborate and develop new approaches for teaching and learning based on knowledge gained from brain research around learning differences, such as dyslexia.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. The University of California and California State University Collaborative for Neurodiversity and Learning


text:
(a) (1) The collaborative formed pursuant to Section 92666 shall provide leadership on the development and testing of new classroom interventions and teaching practices for literacy learning issues based on brain research at public schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive.

(2) Schools described in paragraph (1) may include schools with existing partnerships with the California State University or the University of California.

(b) The collaborative shall establish an evaluation team, composed of participants from the California State University and the University of California, Los Angeles to measure the impact of the new classroom interventions and teaching practices at participating schools pursuant to subdivision (a) and identify which interventions and practices are most effective for neurodiverse learners.

(c) The collaborative may provide stipends for student teachers, teachers, and school leaders who participate in the work described in this section.

(d) The collaborative shall support the creation of professional development modules for current teachers based on the evaluation of tested interventions and practices pursuant to subdivision (b).

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


text:
(a) The collaborative formed pursuant to Section 92666 shall support the development of a progressive teacher training curriculum to be integrated into professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential, approved by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, that will have a long-term impact on supporting neurodiverse learners.

(b) The collaborative shall select public postsecondary educational institutions willing to participate voluntarily in implementing and testing the effects of the teacher training curriculum.

(c) The collaborative shall measure the success of the teacher training curriculum and intervention programs and shall share the results broadly with educators and policymakers throughout the state.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


text:
(a) The operation of this article is contingent upon the enactment of an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for its purposes.

(b) For purposes of this article, participation of public schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, shall be voluntary.

(c) This article shall not apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make it applicable.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


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(a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section, to ensure that the Legislature has accurate information upon which to base funding decisions relating to the University of California.

(2) The University of California shall report biennially to the Legislature and the Department of Finance, on or before October 1, 2014, and on or before October 1 of each even-numbered year thereafter, on the total costs of education at the University of California. The amounts included in the reports required by this section shall be based on publicly available information.

(b) The report shall identify the costs of undergraduate education, graduate academic education, graduate professional education, and research activities. All four categories listed in this subdivision shall be reported in total and disaggregated separately by health sciences disciplines, disciplines included in paragraph (13) of subdivision (b) of Section 92675, and all other disciplines. For purposes of this report, research for which a student earns credit toward his or her degree program shall be identified as undergraduate education or graduate education.

(c) The costs reported in the reports required by this section shall be prior year actual expenditures, and shall also be reported by fund source, including all of the following:

(1) State General Fund.

(2) Systemwide tuition and fees.

(3) Nonresident tuition and fees and other student fees.

(4) University of California General Funds, including interest on General Fund balances and the portion of indirect cost recovery and patent royalty income used for core educational purposes.

(d) For any report submitted under this section before January 1, 2017, the costs shall, at a minimum, be reported on a systemwide basis. For any report submitted under this section on or after January 1, 2017, the costs shall be reported on both a systemwide and campus-by-campus basis.

(e) A report prepared under this section on or after January 1, 2017, shall include information on costs, disaggregated by campus, based on the methodology developed by the National Association of College and University Business Officers in its February 2002 report, Explaining College Costs, and other methodologies determined by the university.

(f) A report to be submitted to the Legislature pursuant to this section shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

(g) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the requirement for submitting a report under this section shall be inoperative on January 1, 2023, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 802, Sec. 2. (AB 1655) Effective January 1, 2018.)

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(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms are defined as follows:

(1) The “four-year graduation rate” means the percentage of a cohort of undergraduate students who entered the university as freshmen at any campus and graduated from any campus within four years.

(2) The “two-year transfer graduation rate” means the percentage of a cohort of undergraduate students who entered the university at any campus as junior-level transfer students from the California Community Colleges and graduated from any campus within two years.

(3) “Low-income student” means an undergraduate student who has an expected family contribution, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 69432.7, at any time during the student’s matriculation at the institution that would qualify the student to receive a federal Pell Grant. The calculation of a student’s expected family contribution shall be based on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application or an application determined by the Student Aid Commission to be equivalent to the FAFSA application submitted by that applicant.

(b) Commencing with the 2013–14 academic year, the University of California shall report, by March 15 of each year, on the following performance measures for the preceding academic year, to inform budget and policy decisions and promote the effective and efficient use of available resources:

(1) The number of transfer students enrolled from the California Community Colleges, and the percentage of California Community College transfer students as a proportion of the total number of undergraduate students enrolled.

(2) The number of new transfer students enrolled from the California Community Colleges, and the percentage of new California Community College transfer students as a proportion of the total number of new undergraduate students enrolled.

(3) The number of low-income students enrolled and the percentage of low-income students as a proportion of the total number of undergraduate students enrolled.

(4) The number of new low-income students enrolled and the percentage of new low-income students as a proportion of the total number of new undergraduate students enrolled.

(5) The four-year graduation rate for students who entered the university four years prior and, separately, for low-income students in that cohort.

(6) The two-year transfer graduation rate for students who entered the university two years prior and, separately, for low-income students in that cohort.

(7) The number of degree completions, in total and for the following categories:

(A) Freshman entrants.

(B) California Community College transfer students.

(C) Graduate students.

(D) Low-income students.

(8) The percentage of freshman entrants who have earned sufficient course credits by the end of their first year of enrollment to indicate they will graduate within four years.

(9) The percentage of California Community College transfer students who have earned sufficient course credits by the end of their first year of enrollment to indicate they will graduate within two years.

(10) For all students, the total amount of funds received from all sources identified in subdivision (c) of Section 92670 for the year, divided by the number of degrees awarded that same year.

(11) For undergraduate students, the total amount of funds received from the sources identified in subdivision (c) of Section 92670 for the year expended for undergraduate education, divided by the number of undergraduate degrees awarded that same year.

(12) The average number of University of California course credits and total course credits, including credit accrued at other institutions, accumulated by all undergraduate students who graduated, and separately for freshman entrants and California Community College transfer students.

(13) (A) The number of degree completions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, in total, and separately for undergraduate students, graduate students, and low-income students.

(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), “STEM fields” include, but are not necessarily limited to, all of the following: computer and information sciences, engineering and engineering technologies, biological and biomedical sciences, mathematics and statistics, physical sciences, and science technologies.

(c) Commencing with the 2017–18 academic year, the University of California shall include in the report described in subdivision (b) goals for the three academic years immediately following the academic year of the report for each of the performance measures listed under that subdivision.

(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature review these performance measures in a collaborative process with the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, individuals with expertise in statewide accountability efforts, the University of California, the California State University, and, for purposes of data integrity and consistency, the California Community Colleges, and consider any recommendations for their modification and refinement. It is further the intent of the Legislature that any modification or refinement of these measures be guided by the legislative intent expressed in Section 66010.93.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 23, Sec. 19. (SB 85) Effective June 27, 2017.)

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article: 7.7. Reporting of Performance Measures

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(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that pupils who are enrolled in schools identified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580 receive additional support to increase the number of these pupils who are admitted to, and enroll at, the University of California and who successfully complete an undergraduate degree within four academic years of freshman admission.

(b) The University of California shall approve a plan, including a timeline, to do all of the following:

(1) Identify, in the files for each applicant for freshman admission, whether the applicant is enrolled in a school identified on the list developed by the Superintendent pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580.

(2) (A) Provide direction to each campus regarding supplemental consideration in the admission process for pupils who are enrolled in schools identified pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580 that comply with university policy.

(B) For the purposes of this paragraph, all pupils enrolled in schools identified pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580 shall meet the same admission requirements as pupils who are enrolled in high schools not identified pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580.

(3) Increase, at each campus and in each academic year, beginning in the 2016–17 academic year, the number of California resident freshmen admits, including students meeting the requirements of Section 68130.5, who are enrolled at a school identified by the Superintendent pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580. It is the intent of the Legislature that the University of California examine its practices to encourage more pupils who are enrolled at schools identified by the Superintendent pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580 and who are admitted to the university to enroll at the university.

(4) Expand services and resources to be provided specifically for students who entered as freshmen and who were previously enrolled in a school identified by the Superintendent pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580.

(c) No later than December 15, 2016, the university shall submit to the Director of Finance and the Legislature an evaluation of the costs and benefits of providing application fee waivers to applicants who are enrolled in schools identified by the Superintendent pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580.

(d) Commencing in 2017, no later than November 30 of each year, the university shall report to the Director of Finance and to the Legislature the number of pupils who attended a school identified by the Superintendent pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 41580 and were admitted to the university, and the number of those students who enrolled, disaggregated by campus.

(e) This section is operative if funds are appropriated in the Budget Act of 2016 to the University of California.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 24, Sec. 26. (AB 1602) Effective June 27, 2016.)

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(a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, shall conduct research on coastal cliff landslides and erosion in the County of San Diego. As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this section, the research conducted pursuant to this section shall involve both of the following:

(1) Developing a bluff failure database using historical records combined with analysis of recent and future coastal survey data. This database shall be used to establish landslide size frequency statistics, quantify failure rates, and identify erosion hot spots.

(2) Conducting real-time measurements of land deformation, to identify and analyze conditions that precede catastrophic bluff failure, on the following sites:

(A) Beacons Beach in the City of Encinitas.

(B) The City of Del Mar.

(C) San Elijo State Beach in the Cardiff area of the City of Encinitas.

(b) (1) The research described in subdivision (a) shall be completed no later than January 1, 2026. No later than March 30, 2026, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shall, as a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this section, provide a report to the Legislature with recommendations for developing a coastal cliff landslide and erosion early warning system based on available research.

(2) A report submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

(3) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under paragraph (1) is inoperative on March 30, 2030, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.

(c) The Regents of the University of California and its employees, acting in good faith, shall not be civilly liable for any harm resulting from measurements, predictions, or warnings regarding bluff failure, cliff landslides, or erosion contained in the report or from the research described in subdivision (a) or related to the recommendations described in subdivision (b). This subdivision does not absolve the Regents of the University of California and its employees from liability under existing law for damages as a result of acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.

(d) The limitation of liability in subdivision (c) applies only to the Regents of the University of California and its employees. It does not apply to any other state or local agency.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 80, Sec. 1. (AB 72) Effective January 1, 2024.)

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(a) (1) Subject to the availability of private funds provided for purposes of this article, the Regents of the University of California may establish the California-China Climate Institute, a University of California-wide initiative to accelerate climate action through cooperative efforts and exchange between two of the world’s largest economic powers.

(2) The institute shall work closely with University of California campuses, departments, and leaders to accomplish its work.

(3) The institute shall operate in partnership with the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Tsinghua University and other entities and institutions in China and California.

(4) The institute will, to the extent possible, receive guidance and support from expert policy, government, business, academic, and climate leaders and advisory committees, including, but not necessarily limited to, the following state entities:

(A) The California State Assembly.

(B) The California State Senate.

(C) The office of the Governor.

(D) The California Environmental Protection Agency.

(E) The Natural Resources Agency.

(F) The University of California.

(G) The Department of Food and Agriculture.

(b) The duties of the institute shall include all of the following:

(1) Fostering collaboration among government, business, academic institutions, and civil society to inform and shape national and subnational climate policy and advance the goals of the Paris Agreement.

(2) Advancing joint policy research on major climate issues, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following:

(A) Low-carbon transportation and zero-emission vehicles.

(B) Carbon pricing.

(C) Climate adaptation and resilience.

(D) Sustainable land use and climate-smart agriculture.

(E) Carbon capture and storage.

(F) Long-term climate goal setting and policy enforcement.

(3) Supporting high-level subnational climate dialogue between top government, business, and climate leaders from throughout the United States and China with respect to climate policy, investment, and finance.

(4) Providing training to Californian and Chinese researchers, scientists, technical experts, policymakers, and other leaders to advance critical climate and environmental policies, including, but not necessarily limited to, air quality, carbon pricing, carbon emissions, clean energy, and innovation.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 227, Sec. 1. (AB 39) Effective January 1, 2022.)

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article: 8. California-China Climate Institute

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(a) Each campus of the University of California is requested to be authorized to observe the date corresponding with the second new moon following the winter solstice, or the third new moon following the winter solstice should an intercalary month intervene, known as “Lunar New Year,” as a holiday, and to be closed on that day. The campus is requested to be authorized to replace observing another prescribed holiday with observing Lunar New Year as a holiday. If the campus observes the Lunar New Year holiday and Lunar New Year falls on another prescribed holiday that is not being replaced by the Lunar New Year holiday, the campus is requested to observe the preceding or following weekday as the Lunar New Year holiday.

(b) If a campus of the University of California observes the Lunar New Year holiday pursuant to subdivision (a), employees of the campus are requested to be entitled to a paid holiday on that day if they are in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding the Lunar New Year holiday.

(c) If this section conflicts 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 those 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.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 972, Sec. 2. (AB 2883) Effective January 1, 2025.)

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The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) That California consumers enjoy the economic benefits of a substantial cooperative business sector. An estimated one million people participate in a diversity of consumer cooperatives that includes, but is not limited to, housing, child care, food, insurance and health care, student, rural electric, senior citizen, cable, and funeral cooperatives, as well as employee-owned arts and crafts cooperatives and other small business cooperatives. Credit unions, as financial cooperatives, provide services to over 6.2 million members.

In addition, over 40,000 California farmers belong to agricultural cooperatives which produce and market over six billion dollars ($6,000,000,000) of food and fiber products annually.

(b) That land grant universities of this nation, including the University of California, have a long tradition of providing research, educational, and extension programs of direct interest to cooperatives.

(c) That public understanding of the nature and role of cooperatives is minimal. In general, the public does not understand how the cooperative form of business structure is being utilized for their benefit.

(d) That public understanding about the benefits of the cooperative form of business could be greatly improved through a coordinated effort by the University of California and other institutions of higher education to focus on the role of cooperatives in the California economy.

(e) That in the fast changing world economic environment it is important to California that its cooperatives remain a dynamic sector within the state’s economy. In order to enhance this sector’s development the state is asked to support the establishment of a Center for Cooperatives.

(f) That the establishment of a Center for Cooperatives would help to meet the growing need for information, knowledge, and the professional skills necessary to increase the competitiveness of California’s cooperatives in the state, national, and world trade and economy.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 668, Sec. 2.)

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chapter: 7. The Center for Cooperatives

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text: In order to facilitate the development of cooperatives in the business and education sectors, the University of California is requested to establish a Center for Cooperatives. The university is further requested to give careful consideration to locating the center at the University of California, Davis, due to the demonstrated leadership role of that campus in providing research, education, and extension services to cooperatives. It is the intent of the Legislature that the center be interdisciplinary in nature and be administered by the university through the appointment of a director.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 668, Sec. 3.)

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It is the intent of the Legislature that the center be operated by the University of California to do the following:

(a) Assist cooperatives in the state through the provision of the following:

(1) Board management and staff training.

(2) Technical assistance regarding startups, ongoing operations, membership development, and new initiatives.

(3) Advice regarding capitalization, marketing, merchandising, business, economic development, and financial management strategies.

(b) Serve as a catalyst between the Land Grant University, other higher education programs, and cooperative leaders in the development and support of education, research, and public outreach programs of direct benefit and interest to cooperatives and their members.

(c) Provide access to market development and changes through industry focused knowledge to the boards, officers, committees, management, and staffs of cooperatives.

(d) Strengthen the capacity of California’s cooperatives to compete effectively and therefore, create employment opportunities for both the rural and urban population in California.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1198, Sec. 1.)

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It is the intent of the Legislature that the center support research, education, and extension activities that advance the body of knowledge concerning cooperatives in general and address the needs of California’s agricultural and nonagricultural cooperatives such as:

(a) Support for teaching programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

(b) Support for research addressing economic, marketing, social, technology development, and other issues relating to cooperatives.

(c) Dissemination of information on existing programs, services, and publications available to cooperatives through federal, state, university, and public sector sources.

(d) Development and dissemination of education materials relating to cooperatives.

(e) Coordination of meetings, conferences, seminars, and related education programs for cooperative leaders, boards of directors, managers, members of cooperatives, and others.

(f) Encouragement of greater interest in cooperatives by the academic community through student involvement, internships, support of visiting scholars, and other means.

(g) Support strengthening the economic role of cooperatives in state, national, and international trade.

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