California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 7.5 - Private Postsecondary Education › Chapter 6 - Student Tuition Recovery Fund › Article 1 - General Provisions › Section 76000 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
					 apply:
(a) "California resident" means
				  a person who resides in California at the time the enrollment agreement is
				  signed or a person who receives lessons at a California mailing address from a
				  qualifying institution offering distance education.
(b) "Closed institution" means an institution
				  at which a closure has occurred.
(c) "Economic loss" means pecuniary loss, as
				  defined in section
				  94923 of the Code. Economic loss
				  also includes, any "educational opportunity loss".
(d) "Educational opportunity loss" means a
				  loss of eligibility for third-party payer benefits that is suffered by a
				  California resident or a person enrolled in a California residency program
				  because they are unable to complete an educational program due to the
				  institution's closure or due to the institution losing its eligibility to
				  receive third-party payer benefits and no replacement of that benefit is
				  available from the third-party payer.
(e) "Fund" means the Student Tuition Recovery
				  Fund.
(f) "Prepaid" describes any
				  amount of money that an institution accepts in advance of rendering educational
				  services.
(g) "Qualifying
				  institution" is an approved institution that is subject to the provisions of
				  Article 14, commencing with section
				  94923 of the Code, including
				  out-of-state institutions registered with the Bureau pursuant to section
				  94801.5 of the Code.
(h) "Residency Program" means an educational
				  program as defined in section
				  94837 of the Code at a qualifying
				  institution of which some portion of the instruction occurs as direct
				  instruction as defined in section
				  71715(c).
(i) "STRF" means Student Tuition Recovery
				  Fund.
(j) "Student Tuition Recovery
				  Fund assessment" or "STRF assessment" means a state-imposed charge to fund this
				  chapter that is required to be paid by a California resident student or a
				  student enrolled in a residency program, who pays tuition to an
				  institution.
(k) "Teach-out
				  institution" means the institution offering a teach-out to a former student of
				  an institution that has ceased to operate.
(l) "Third-party payer" means an employer,
				  government program, or other entity that pays a student's charges when no
				  separate agreement for the repayment of the charges exists between the
				  third-party payer and the student.
1. New
					 section filed 3-12-92 as an emergency; operative 3-12-92 (Register 92, No. 13).
					 A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL 7-10-92 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
2. Certificate of Compliance as to 3-12-92 order transmitted to
					 OAL 9-1-92 and filed 10-14-92 (Register 92, No. 42).
3. Amendment of
					 subsection (a) filed 6-9-95; operative 7-10-95 (Register 95, No.
					 23).
4. Amendment of section and NOTE filed 9-11-2003; operative
					 9-11-2003 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11343.4
					 (Register 2003, No. 37).
5. Renumbering of former chapter 7 to
					 chapter 5 (articles 1-4, sections
					 76000-76240), including amendment
					 of chapter heading and amendment of section and NOTE filed 2-1-2010 as an
					 emergency; operative 2-1-2010 (Register 2010, No. 6). A Certificate of
					 Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 8-2-2010 or emergency language will be
					 repealed by operation of law on the following day.
6. Renumbering of
					 former chapter 7 to chapter 5 (articles 1-4, sections
					 76000-76240), including amendment
					 of chapter heading and amendment of section and NOTE refiled 7-30-2010 as an
					 emergency; operative 7-30-2010 (Register 2010, No. 31). A Certificate of
					 Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-28-2010 or emergency language will
					 be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
7.
					 Reinstatement of section as it existed prior to 2-1-2010 emergency amendment by
					 operation of Government Code section
					 11346.1(f)
					 (Register 2010, No. 47).
8. Renumbering of former chapter 7 to
					 chapter 5 (articles 1-4, sections
					 76000-76240), including amendment
					 of chapter heading and amendment of section and NOTE refiled with additional
					 amendments 12-1-2010 as an emergency; operative 12-1-2010 (Register 2010, No.
					 49). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 3-1-2011 or
					 emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
9. Renumbering of chapter 5 to chapter 6 filed 3-28-2011;
					 operative 4-27-2011 (Register 2011, No. 13).
10. Certificate of
					 Compliance as to 12-1-2010 order, including amendments, transmitted to OAL
					 3-1-2011 and filed 4-12-2011; amendments operative 5-12-2011 (Register 2011,
					 No. 15).
11. Amendment filed 8-10-2017; operative 8-10-2017 pursuant
					 to Government Code section
					 11343.4(b)(3)
					 (Register 2017, No. 32).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						94803,
						94877 and
						94923,
						Education Code. Reference: Sections
						94874.1,
						94923,
						94926,
						94927 and
						94927.5,
						Education Code.