Article 17. Fees of California Education Code >> Division 10. >> Title 3. >> Part 59. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 17.

(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.

Subject to Section 94930, 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.

(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.

(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.