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100450
. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) California's economic and social prosperity relies on a higher
education system that keeps pace with California's growth. In the
coming decades, the state's economic prosperity will depend on
increasing the productivity of the work force and on the ability to
compete successfully in the world marketplace.
(b) The system of public higher education in this state includes
the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, the
California State University, the California Community Colleges, and
their respective off-campus centers. Each of these institutions plays
a vital role in maintaining California's dominance in higher
education in the United States.
(c) Over the last several years, studies have been completed by
the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the University of
California, the California State University, and the California
Community Colleges to assess their long-term and short-term capital
needs. Those studies demonstrate that the long-term and short-term
needs total, in the aggregate, seven hundred fifty million dollars
($750,000,000) per year into the next century.
(d) Proceeds from the sale of bonds issued and sold pursuant to
this chapter may be used to fund construction on existing or new
campuses and off-campus centers, including the construction of
buildings and the acquisition of related fixtures, the renovation and
reconstruction of facilities, site acquisition, the equipping of
new, renovated, or reconstructed facilities, which equipment shall
have an average useful life of 10 years; and to provide funds for the
payment of preconstruction costs, including, but not limited to,
preliminary plans and working drawings at the University of
California, the Hastings College of the Law, the California State
University and the California Community Colleges.
(e) The purposes of this article include assisting in meeting the
capital outlay financing needs of California's public higher
education system.