BILL NUMBER: SB 664	CHAPTERED  10/03/01

	CHAPTER  443
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 3,2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 30, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 2, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 17, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Poochigian
   (Coauthors:  Senators Monteith and Polanco)
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Zettel)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to add and repeal Section 66903.5 of the Education Code,
relating to community colleges, and making an appropriation therefor.


      (Approved by Governor October 2, 2001.  Filed with
Secretary of State October 3, 2001.)

   I am signing SB 664, legislation requires the California
Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) to conduct a review and
analysis of admission procedures and attrition rates for two-year
associate degree nursing programs.
   Nursing programs in the California Community Colleges are
currently impacted and the system should take steps to ensure that
students admitted into the program are academically prepared.  This
study should help identify strategies to maximize the number of
nursing students that can graduate and help meet California's high
demand for nurses.  However, due to our rapidly declining economy, I
am vetoing the appropriation of $130,000 and requesting that CPEC
conduct the study or contract out within existing resources.

                                                 GRAY DAVIS, Governor


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 664, Poochigian.  Nursing education.
   Existing law establishes the California Postsecondary Education
Commission as the statewide postsecondary education coordinating and
planning agency, which serves as a fiscal and program advisor to the
Governor and the Legislature on postsecondary educational policy.
   This bill would require the commission to conduct, or contract to
conduct, a review and analysis of California community college
districts' admission procedures and attrition rates for their 2-year
associate degree nursing programs.  The bill would require the
commission to submit findings of the review and analysis, along with
relevant recommendations, to the Governor and the Legislature on or
before January 10, 2003.  The bill would repeal these provisions on
January 1, 2004.  The bill would appropriate $130,000 from the
General Fund to the commission for purposes of the bill.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 66903.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66903.5.  (a) The commission shall conduct, or contract to
conduct, a review and analysis of California community college
districts' admission procedures and attrition rates for their
two-year associate degree nursing programs.  The review and analysis
shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, information
regarding the admission procedures and attrition rates for the Los
Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health and other
relevant nursing programs, to the extent that information is
available.  The commission shall submit findings of the review and
analysis, along with relevant recommendations, to the Governor and
the Legislature on or before January 10, 2003.
  (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2004,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that
is enacted before January 1, 2004, deletes or extends that date.
  SEC. 2.  The sum of one hundred thirty thousand dollars ($130,000)
is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the California
Postsecondary Education Commission for purposes of Section 66903.5 of
the Education Code.