Community college districts: transportation fees.

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 expand that transportation fee authority to include any community college district.