LEGISLATION, 2011-12 Session
Easy access to text of the bill info at www.leginfo.ca.gov
Bill # Author / Subject/Synopsis/Comments / ASCCC Position(adopted 3/8/11)
AB 2 Portantino / Educational and Economic Goals for CA Higher Education: accountability
Would establish an accountability framework asking six questions---1) are enough Californians prepared for post-sec education, 2) are enough Californians going to college, 3) is the state’s post-sec ed system affordable to all Californians, 4) are enough Californians successfully completing certificates and degrees, 5) are college graduates prepared for life and work in CA, 6) are CA’s people, communities and economy benefiting? / Watch
AB 63 Donnelly / Tuition and fees
Would provide resident fee status for military and dependents, but also calls for repeal of AB 540, which provides resident fee status for undocumented persons who have attended three years of CA high school.
Failed to pass out of the Assembly Higher Ed Committee on 3/29. Military section of bill is covered in another bill (AB 853, Blumenfield) / Opposed, Unless Amended
(to remove AB 540 repeal
language)
AB 91 Portantino / Student Financial Aid: Pilot Program
Would establish pilot programs to increase student participation in state and local financial aid programs. Would also identify strategies and best practices for increasing the number of students who submit a FAFSA (many student do not fill out the FAFSA, which precludes them from accessing most federal financial aid) / Watch
AB 130 Cedillo / Student Financial Aid: Eligibility: California Dream Act of 2011
Expands the definition of AB 540 students and would permit all AB 540 students to be eligible for scholarships funded by private sources. / Support
AB 131 Cedillo / Student Financial Aid
Would permit AB 540 students to apply for specified state-administered financial aid programs (including Cal Grants). / Support
AB 160 Portantino / Concurrent Enrollment in Secondary School and Community College.
In addition to current criteria of advanced scholastic or vocational work, would expand to basic skills remediation, preparation for CA High School Exit Exam, ESL and dropout prevention.
Concerns---1) is this the time to expand concurrent enrollment when we don’t even have enough course sections for the “traditional” CCC student (i.e. high school graduate or anyone over 18 who can benefit) and 2) current criteria is for advanced work by such students, while additions are not. / Watch
AB 194 Beall / Priority Registration: Foster Youth
Would require each CCC district that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority for registration for enrollment to foster youth or former foster youth, as defined. / Watch
AB 216 Swanson / Inmate Education Programs: Computation of Apportionments
Would waive open course provisions for such courses. / Watch
AB 230
Carter / Joint educational programs: middle college high school students: enrollment priority
Would provide that low enrollment priority provisions do not apply to students attending a middle college high school.
AB 288 Fong / Student Expulsion
Would authorize the governing board of a district to either deny enrollment, permit enrollment, or permit conditional enrollment to any individual who has been expelled from a community college within the preceding 5 years, or who is, at the time of the application, undergoing expulsion procedures, for certain offenses, as provided, if the board determines that the person continues to pose a risk to the safety of others. / Watch
AB 372 Hernandez / Veterans’ Academic Credit
Would require CCCs to develop criteria for granting academic credit for the military training received by any member or former member of the armed services.
We have a resolution (18.04) dealing with military training and academic credits. / Watch
AB 515 Brownley / Extension Programs
Would authorize a local district governing board, without the approval of the CCC Board of Governors, to establish and maintain an extension program offering credit courses. / Resolutions to be
voted on at Session.
AB 620
Block / Nondiscrimination and Training: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Gender Expression
Would require the CCC Board of Governors to adopt policies on harassment, intimidation, and bullying to be included within the rules of student conduct governing their respective segments of public postsecondary education.
AB 626
Blumenfeld / Distance Learning (DL)
Would define the term “distance learning” in the Ed Code.
Based on recommendations from the LAO report “The Master Plan at 50: Using Distance Education to Increase College Access and Efficiency.”
AB 661 Block / San Diego Community College District: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program
Would authorize the SDCCD to establish a pilot program (to expire 8 years after establishment), offering degrees in a limited number of fields of study; would authorize the district to charge fees for enrollment in specified courses (which would be required for the pilot); and authorize the district to enter into agreements with local businesses and agencies to provide educational services to the students. / Oppose
AB 743 Block / Common Assessment
Would establish a common assessment system to be used as one of multiple measures.
Would be an opt-in (not required), but would likely have a strong financial incentive for districts to participate (because of low cost). / Watch
AB 835
Mitchell / Economic and Workforce Development Program
Would authorize CCC districts to enroll high school pupils who are not residents of the district in a program developed and implemented by the district and to grant academic credit to high school pupils for courses meeting specified criteria.
AB 851 Nestande / Distance Learning (DL)
Would call for a report from both the CCC and CSU on workload and key performance data on DL courses, including number of students in DL courses, completion rates for DL courses and program completion rates for degree programs that include exclusively DL courses. Would also report on the feasibility of developing an accelerated bachelor’s degree completion program consisting of DL courses, aimed at students who started college, but never obtained a degree. Also specifies for the LAO to convene a task force to identify steps needed to establish a Western Governors University (WGU) in CA (WGU is a national online university offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in professions such as teaching, business, IT and health).
Based on recommendations from the LAO report “The Master Plan at 50: Using Distance Education to Increase College Access and Efficiency.” / Watch
AB 1029 Lara / Stand-Alone Course Approval
Would extend the requirement that the CCC Board of Governors review and approve courses of instruction that are not offered as part of an educational program approved by the BoG.
Sponsored by Chancellor’s Office / Support
AB 852
Fong / Temporary Faculty
Establishes re-employment rights for adjunct faculty, based on specific criteria.
Sponsored by FACCC
AB 965
Dickinson / Full-time faculty hiring
Would require community college districts that have less than 75% of their hours of credit instruction taught by full-time instructors to apply a portion of their funds allocated to apportionment growth according to specified formulas. This requirement would apply only if prescribed conditions are met.
Sponsored by FACCC
AB 1056 Fong / Electronic Transcripts
Would implement a procedure to facilitate the electronic transmission and receipt of student transcripts by districts.. Would also require districts to implement a process for this (based on receipt of new one-time funding for this purpose).
Sponsored by Chancellor’s Office / Watch
AB 1315
Furutani / Partnerships
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to develop demonstration partnerships between adult education programs and the California Community Colleges to create “gateway centers” that will accelerate the progress of developing basic skills of students so that they will be successful students and obtain well-paying jobs after graduation.
AB 1326
Furutani / California Higher Education Endowment Corporation: oil and gas severance tax
Would establish the California Higher Education Endowment Corporation (CHEEC) in state government. The bill would establish an oversight board to govern the CHEEC and would require that board to appoint the chief executive officer of the CHEEC. The bill would require the CHEEC to annually allocate the moneys in the continuously appropriated California Higher Education Fund, which would be created by the bill, to the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California, as specified. The bill also would authorize the board to invest the moneys in the fund in accordance with prescribed procedures.
SB 114
Yee / Academic salary schedules
Would require community college districts to determine the compensation of part-time community college faculty using a salary schedule that places part-time faculty on comparable salary steps as full-time faculty with similar academic preparation and years of experience. The bill would require part-time faculty to be paid in a manner that mirrors the same relationship to the placement of full-time faculty on the schedule.
SB 189
Anderson / Adjunct Faculty---Eligibility for Contract Status
Adds dual enrollment to the list of “ancillary activities” (e.g. governance, staff development, grant writing, advising student organizations) that cannot be used to calculate eligibility for contract or regular status.
SB292 Padilla / Transfer
Considered to be a “clean up” bill for SB 1440 which was passed last session. / Watch
SB 532
Hernandez / Advanced Placement Program.
Would require the CSU and the governing board of a CCC to give a student who scored 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate examinations taken during high school the same amount of credit given to students who scored 4 or 5 on the equivalent advanced placement examinations taken during high school.
Senate has resolutions in support of both AP and IB, but not this mandating of determination of credit.
Title 5, section 55052, gives determination of credit for AP scores to the discipline faculty at the local college. Instead of the mandating of this bill, the Senate would call for parallel language in Title 5 for determination of IB credit to be done by discipline faculty at the local college.
SB 650
Lowenthal / The College Promise Partnership Act
Would authorize the Long Beach CCD and the Long Beach USD to enter into a partnership, as specified, to provide participating pupils with an aligned sequence of rigorous high school coursework leading to capstone college courses, as defined, with consistent and jointly established eligibility for college courses. The act would assign priority for enrollment and course registration to certain students. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Long Beach USD and the Long Beach CCD.
April 2011