Section 67326 Of Chapter 14.27. Contracts From California Education Code >> Division 5. >> Title 3. >> Part 40. >> Chapter 14.27.
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. 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.
(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.