LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 774, as introduced, Cook. Riverside Community College District:
transportation fees.
(1) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges,
under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary
education in this state. Existing law establishes community college
districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to maintain
campuses at which instruction is provided to students.
Existing law authorizes the governing boards of the Los Rios,
Peralta, and Rio Hondo community college districts to require that a
transportation service fee be paid only by students and employees
using the services, or, in the alternative, by various groups of
people, upon the favorable vote of a majority of the people in the
affected groups. Existing law prohibits these governing boards from
entering into, or extending, a contract for transportation services,
funded by the proceeds of a transportation fee and provided by a
common carrier or a municipally owned transit system, unless
specified conditions are met.
This bill would grant the Riverside Community College District
that transportation fee authority.
(2) An existing provision of the California Constitution provides
that a local or special statute is invalid in any case if a general
statute can be made applicable.
The bill would express a finding and declaration of the
Legislature that, due to unique circumstances relating to the
transportation services utilized by the community served by the
Riverside Community College District, a general statute cannot be
made applicable, and the enactment of this bill as a special statute
is therefore necessary.