BILL NUMBER: SB 1937 CHAPTERED 09/27/02 CHAPTER 980 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 27, 2002 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 26, 2002 PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 29, 2002 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 25, 2002 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 23, 2002 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 3, 2002 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 26, 2002 AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 15, 2002 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 22, 2002 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 1, 2002 INTRODUCED BY Senator Costa (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Cohn) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Diaz, Jackson, Kehoe, Liu, Longville, Nakano, Negrete McLeod, Reyes, and Steinberg) FEBRUARY 22, 2002 An act to add and repeal Chapter 9.6 (commencing with Section 8770) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to the arts, and making an appropriation therefor. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1937, Costa. Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Act. Existing law sets forth the duties of the Arts Council in promoting the arts in the state. This bill would enact the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Act, to require the council to administer the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program, by designating 3 voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships in the state, for the purpose of providing digital media arts training to youths aged 13 to 18 years, inclusive. It would require the council to convene a meeting of specified entities to review and make recommendations on a model curriculum and state standards for digital media arts recommended by consortia associated with each partnership. This bill would require the council to administer federal, local, or private moneys received by the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Fund, which would be established by the bill. Private moneys received by the fund would be continuously appropriated to the council. The council would be required to submit specified reports on the program to the Legislature. This bill would specify that its provisions shall only be implemented to the extent that private, federal, or local funds are available for those purposes, and would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2006. Appropriation: yes. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a need to provide innovative and career quality digital arts training and tools, and their dissemination, to secondary school youth and educators. Reinforcing basic and advanced skills in, and knowledge of, digital media arts and aesthetics applications will serve as a means of improving the quality of education, digital access, and workforce and community development offered in California. (b) Educating and training our youth in digital media arts technology will lead to careers in that field, thus contributing to a stronger state economy through meeting vital employer sector needs. (c) Currently, the training and educating of our youth in the digital media arts is often fragmented, isolated, and underdeveloped among schools, industry, and the community. (d) The establishment of a coordinated and networked regional training and service model will enable our youth to obtain competencies and skills and to pursue career paths in digital arts technology. (e) Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act to develop comprehensive, community-based, regional partnerships that are the result of a systematic planning process that includes strategies aimed at linking existing programs providing technology training or services, or both, to youth, promoting instructor professional development and networking, and establishing active involvement and support of private industry. It is the further intent of the Legislature in enacting this act to ensure inclusion of underequipped and underserved communities and schools in the partnerships. SEC. 2. Chapter 9.6 (commencing with Section 8770) is added to Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, to read: CHAPTER 9.6. DIGITAL ARTS STUDIO PARTNERSHIP DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM ACT 8770. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Act. 8771. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Council" means the Arts Council. (b) "Program" means the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program established pursuant to this chapter. (c) "Youth" means individuals aged 13 to 18 years, inclusive. 8772. (a) The Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program is hereby established. (b) The purpose of the program is to create voluntary pilot regional public and private partnerships in digital media arts technology that will train youths in after school regional, community-based digital technology programs, with the goal of providing a qualified, domestic workforce in technology and the arts. 8773. The Arts Council shall administer the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program. In administering the program, the council shall do all of the following: (a) Develop a strategic plan for the purpose of implementing three voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships. The strategic plan shall include, at a minimum, the following components: (1) An assessment of existing public and private organizations and public schools providing youth with training in digital media arts. (2) An assessment and description of funding of digital media arts education and training for youth. (3) Identification of available federal, local, and private funds for digital media arts technology training for youth. (4) Identification of resources and structures required for the implementation of voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships. (5) Identification of gaps in current curricula serving as barriers to the development and implementation of a model digital media arts curriculum and state standards. (6) An assessment of effectiveness and quality of collaboration between relevant digital arts industry, education, and training institutions related to provision of resources, transfer of knowledge, job and career opportunities, and other roles industry plays in promoting workforce development. (b) Convene a voluntary planning and development Advisory Group in Digital Media Arts Technology that is representative of youth, educators, artists, parents, and the high technology industry in the regions served by the voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships, with membership to be appointed by the council. The advisory group shall assist the council in implementing the strategic plan developed pursuant to subdivision (a) and developing the criteria for designation of voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships pursuant to subdivision (c). (c) Designate, fund, and develop three voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships in the state, one each in the northern, southern, and central regions of the state, subject to Section 8777. The council and the advisory group shall consider the following characteristics in establishing criteria for designating the voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships: (1) The capacity to either reach a population of at least one million people or collaborate in a regional, multicounty, community-based, coordinated program, or the capacity to broadcast student-produced media. (2) The capacity and ability to train 500 youths and 100 instructors annually. Youths trained shall include youth from low-income families and communities of color and youth with disabilities. (3) Where feasible, the ability to provide access for youth, beyond the established school day, to state-of-the-art facilities, equipment, and personnel. (4) The ability to provide expert staff who shall serve as trainers and mentors. (5) The ability to identify underequipped and underserved communities and schools in the targeted region, for purposes of inclusion in the partnership. (6) The ability to integrate all of the following components: (A) A nonprofit organization with public access and community cablecast and Internet broadcast capacity, with services in the audio, video, film, and other digital production fields to serve as the central and administrative entity. (B) Satellite studio training sites with a capacity to establish and support five or more youth groups. (C) Youth media clubs or ateliers. (D) Regional youth media arts organizations. (E) Local support networks of media artists, parents, and community volunteers. (F) Inclusion and support of underequipped and underserved communities and schools in the satellite studio training sites or the youth media clubs, or both of these. If no such site exists, the application plan shall include a timeline and strategy, and funding for building a satellite or club site in the underserved community within two years. (7) Demonstrated partnerships with high technology industry, local public high schools, local nonprofit youth groups, local parent groups, local media artists, and local government, including, but not limited to, local workforce investment boards. (8) Ability to collaborate, where feasible, with existing state programs and entities, such as the California Workforce Development Programs, the 21st Century Technology Commission, and afterschool mentoring, technology center programs. (9) An established voluntary regional educator, postsecondary education institution or institutions, and multimedia industry-based consortium associated with the designated voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnership. The consortium should be willing to make recommendations on a comprehensive and articulated model curriculum for digital media arts in public high schools and two-year and four-year college and university systems, based on the ongoing progress and results of the voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnership, consistent with, and complementary to, the California High School Visual and Performance Arts standards. (d) Establish application content and procedures for the purpose of planning and operating a voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnership. (e) Provide information and technical assistance to voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships to implement this chapter. (f) Monitor voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships and document their progress in meeting performance criteria established by the council pursuant to Section 8774. (g) Convene a meeting of the California Technology Project, the California Arts Project, and selected education departments of the California State University and the University of California at its option, for the purpose of reviewing and recommending to the council a model curriculum and state standards based on recommendations submitted pursuant to paragraph (8) of subdivision (c). 8774. The council shall establish performance criteria for evaluating voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships, to be included in the report required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8775. Performance criteria shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (a) Training outcomes. (b) Youth art products and their exhibition. (c) Digital media and aesthetics curriculum development and dissemination. (d) Afterschool instructor training. (e) Partnerships with industry. (f) Partnership effectiveness. (g) Youth leadership development. (h) Communication arts growth and achievements. (i) Impact on digital divide challenges. 8775. The council shall submit the following reports to the Joint Committee on the Arts, the Assembly Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media, and the education committees of the Legislature: (a) No later than October 30, 2003, findings from the assessment of digital media arts programs in public schools made pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 8773. (b) Periodic progress reports, including, but not limited to, evaluations based on criteria established pursuant to Section 8774, recommendations as to revisions to the program, and recommendations regarding levels of funding for the voluntary pilot digital arts studio partnerships. 8776. (a) The Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. (b) (1) The fund may receive federal, local, or private moneys, which shall be administered by the council for the purposes of this chapter. (2) Notwithstanding Section 13340, private moneys received pursuant to paragraph (1) are hereby continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years to the council for the purposes of this chapter. 8777. This chapter shall only be implemented to the extent that private, federal, or local funds are available for that purpose. 8778. This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2006, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2006, deletes or extends that date.