The state budget will freeze tuition rates for the state’s two university systems if voters approve tax hikes in November, University of California student groups said this evening. Charlie Eaton, a leader with the UC student workers’ union, said Capitol officials told him that the budget bills will add $120 million each for the UC and California State University systems to avoid tuition hikes. But that is contingent on voter passage of Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax hikes in November, he said. The tuition freeze announcement could not be immediately confirmed by Capitol officials. Lawmakers have yet to make budget language publicly available.

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by Kevin Yamamura, The Sacramento Bee.

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