California Education Code 67326 – The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The …
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) The University of California and the California State University comprise two important parts of the state’s public university system.
Terms Used In California Education Code 67326
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
(b) The University of California and the California State University receive about six billion dollars ($6,000,000,000) from the State General Fund each year.
(c) In the 2006-07 fiscal year, state agencies and departments entered into more than 2,500 contracts or contract amendments with the University of California and the California State University.
(d) Many of these contracts contain similar provisions, such as provisions dealing with issues relating to liability, intellectual property, the right to undertake additional research, the right to publish, hiring, personnel, invoicing, and payments.
(e) The provisions of each contract or contract amendment are typically negotiated between attorneys representing the state agencies and departments and attorneys representing the University of California and the California State University.
(f) The drafting of many of these contracts takes six months to a year, and, in many cases, the state is paying for both sides of the contract negotiations.
(g) It would be more cost effective and efficient if the state and the University of California and the California State University would establish standardized “boilerplate” provisions that would apply to all contracts between the state and the University of California or the California State University, allowing for variations only in unusual situations.
(h) The federal government has established the Federal Demonstration Partnership, which provides for uniform contracting provisions.
(Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 402, Sec. 1. (AB 20) Effective January 1, 2010.)