ASCCC Legislative Bills for 2009



LEGISLATION, 2011-12 Session

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|Bill # Author |Subject/Synopsis/Comments |ASCCC Position |

| | |(adopted 3/8/11) |

|AB 2 Portantino |Educational and Economic Goals for CA Higher Education: accountability |Watch |

| |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? | |

|AB 63 Donnelly |Tuition and fees |Opposed, Unless Amended |

| |Would provide resident fee status for military and dependents, but also calls for repeal of AB |(to remove AB 540 repeal |

| |540, which provides resident fee status for undocumented persons who have attended three years of|language) |

| |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) | |

|AB 91 Portantino |Student Financial Aid: Pilot Program |Watch |

| |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) | |

|AB 130 Cedillo |Student Financial Aid: Eligibility: California Dream Act of 2011 |Support |

| |Expands the definition of AB 540 students and would permit all AB 540 students to be eligible for| |

| |scholarships funded by private sources. | |

|AB 131 Cedillo |Student Financial Aid |Support |

| |Would permit AB 540 students to apply for specified state-administered financial aid programs | |

| |(including Cal Grants). | |

|AB 160 Portantino |Concurrent Enrollment in Secondary School and Community College. |Watch |

| |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. | |

|AB 194 Beall |Priority Registration: Foster Youth |Watch |

| |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. | |

|AB 216 Swanson |Inmate Education Programs: Computation of Apportionments |Watch |

| |Would waive open course provisions for such courses. | |

|AB 230 |Joint educational programs: middle college high school students: enrollment priority | |

|Carter |Would provide that low enrollment priority provisions do not apply to students attending a middle| |

| |college high school. | |

|AB 288 Fong |Student Expulsion |Watch |

| |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. | |

|AB 372 Hernandez |Veterans’ Academic Credit |Watch |

| |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. | |

|AB 515 Brownley |Extension Programs |Resolutions to be |

| |Would authorize a local district governing board, without the approval of the CCC Board of |voted on at Session. |

| |Governors, to establish and maintain an extension program offering credit courses. | |

|AB 620 |Nondiscrimination and Training: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Gender Expression | |

|Block |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 |Distance Learning (DL) | |

|Blumenfeld |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 |Oppose |

| |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. | |

|AB 743 Block |Common Assessment |Watch |

| |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). | |

|AB 835 |Economic and Workforce Development Program | |

|Mitchell |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) |Watch |

| |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.” | |

|AB 1029 Lara |Stand-Alone Course Approval |Support |

| |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 | |

|AB 852 |Temporary Faculty | |

|Fong |Establishes re-employment rights for adjunct faculty, based on specific criteria. | |

| | | |

| |Sponsored by FACCC | |

|AB 965 |Full-time faculty hiring | |

|Dickinson |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 |Watch |

| |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 | |

|AB 1315 |Partnerships | |

|Furutani |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 |California Higher Education Endowment Corporation: oil and gas severance tax | |

|Furutani |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 |Academic salary schedules | |

|Yee |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 |Adjunct Faculty---Eligibility for Contract Status | |

|Anderson |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 |Watch |

| |Considered to be a “clean up” bill for SB 1440 which was passed last session. | |

|SB 532 |Advanced Placement Program. | |

|Hernandez |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 |The College Promise Partnership Act | |

|Lowenthal |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

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