SECTIONS 94930-94931.5 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 94930-94931.5

94930. (a) All fees collected pursuant to this article, including
any interest on those fees, shall be deposited in the Private
Postsecondary Education Administration Fund, and shall be available,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditure by the bureau
for the administration of this chapter.
(b) If the bureau determines by regulation that the adjustment of
the fees established by this article is consistent with the intent of
this chapter, the bureau may adjust the fees. However, the bureau
shall not maintain a reserve balance in the Private Postsecondary
Education Administration Fund in an amount that is greater than the
amount necessary to fund six months of authorized operating expenses
of the bureau in any fiscal year.

94930.5. An institution shall remit to the bureau for deposit in
the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund the following
fees, in accordance with the following schedule:
(a) The following fees shall be remitted by an institution
submitting an application for an approval to operate, if applicable:
(1) Application fee for an approval to operate: five thousand
dollars ($5,000).
(2) Application fee for the approval to operate a new branch of
the institution: three thousand dollars ($3,000).
(3) Application fee for an approval to operate by means of
accreditation: seven hundred fifty dollars ($750).
(b) The following fees shall be remitted by an institution seeking
a renewal of its approval to operate, if applicable:
(1) Renewal fee for the main campus of the institution: three
thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).
(2) Renewal fee for a branch of the institution: three thousand
dollars ($3,000).
(3) Renewal fee for an institution that is approved to operate by
means of accreditation: five hundred dollars ($500).
(c) The following fees shall apply to an institution seeking
authorization of a substantive change to its approval to operate, if
applicable:
(1) Processing fee for authorization of a substantive change to an
approval to operate: five hundred dollars ($500).
(2) Processing fee in connection with a substantive change to an
approval to operate by means of accreditation: two hundred fifty
dollars ($250).
(d) (1) In addition to any fees paid to the bureau pursuant to
subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, each institution that is approved
to operate pursuant to this chapter shall remit both of the
following:
(A) An annual institutional fee, in an amount equal to
three-quarters of 1 percent of the institution's annual revenues
derived from students in California, but not exceeding a total of
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) annually.
(B) An annual branch fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each
branch or campus of the institution operating in California.
(2) The amount of the annual fees pursuant to paragraph (1) shall
be proportional to the bureau's cost of regulating the institution
under this chapter.
(e) If the bureau determines that the annual cost of providing
oversight and review of an institution, as required by this chapter,
is less than the amount of any fees required to be paid by that
institution pursuant to this article, the bureau may decrease the
fees applicable to that institution to an amount that is proportional
to the bureau's costs associated with that institution.

94931. (a) A fee that is not paid on or before the 30th calendar
day after the due date for the payment of the fee shall be subject to
a 25 percent late payment penalty fee.
(b) A fee that is not paid on or before the 90th calendar day
after the due date for payment of the fee shall be subject to a 35
percent late payment penalty fee.

94931.5. (a) The bureau may propose modifications to the fee
schedule in Section 94930.5 to the Governor and the Legislature to
add or delete categories of fees related to work performed by the
bureau and propose to the Governor and the Legislature the maximum
amount to be charged for each fee category added to the fee schedule.
The fee schedule shall provide adequate resources for the bureau to
effectively implement this chapter.
(b) The bureau shall annually publish a schedule of the current
fees to be charged pursuant to this article and shall make this
schedule available to the public.