(a) The Chancellor may enter into a formal agreement of reciprocity for lower division general education requirements between the California State University and the University of California. Pursuant to such an agreement, students transferring to the California State University from campuses of the University of California may satisfy California State University general education-breadth requirements for the bachelor's degree through satisfactory completion of all lower division general education requirements of a University of California campus and of a minimum of 9 semester units or 12 quarter units of upper division general education coursework at the California State University campus granting the degree. Upper division general education requirements shall be taken no sooner than the term in which the candidate achieves upper division status.

(b) If the chancellor or an officially authorized representative of a University of California campus certifies that a student has completed that campus's lower division general education program, California State University campuses shall accept that certification as meeting all of the lower division general requirements for the baccalaureate degree.