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SACRAMENTO – Legislation to prohibit executive pay raises during bad budget years at the University of California and the California State University was sent to the Assembly Appropriations Committee suspense file today after UC and CSU administrators hypocritically argued that the bill would cost millions of dollars. UC and CSU administrators have used the complete opposite argument to push furloughs for lower wage workers as a cost-savings measure. Typically, bills are moved to the “suspense file” that are estimated to impose significant state costs. However, in the case of SB 217, the Senate Appropriations Committee overwhelmingly approved the bill earlier this year and the Assembly Appropriations Committee´s own fiscal analysis estimates cost-savings as a result of the bill. “It is unconscionable that the CSU Chancellor´s office and the UC President´s office argue that a freeze on executive pay hikes would cost the universities a dime,” said Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San
