BILL NUMBER: AB 1280 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 515
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 4, 2005
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 4, 2005
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 30, 2005
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 25, 2005
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 23, 2005
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 15, 2005
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 11, 2005
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 23, 2005
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 13, 2005
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Maze and Liu
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bass and Parra)
FEBRUARY 22, 2005
An act to add and repeal Section 78016.5 of the Education Code,
relating to public postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1280, Maze Public postsecondary education: California
Community College Baccalaureate Partnership Program.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary
education in this state.
This bill would enact the California Community College
Baccalaureate Partnership Act, and establish the California Community
College Baccalaureate Partnership Program. Under the program, the
Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges would
be authorized to annually award 2 grants, not to exceed $50,000 each,
to a collaborative, composed of at least one community college and
at least one baccalaureate degree-granting institution, formed for
the purpose of offering baccalaureate degree programs on the
participating community college campus or campuses.
The bill would provide that these 2 grants may be awarded under
its provisions in any fiscal year only to the extent that funding for
this program is appropriated in the annual Budget Act.
The bill would require that, as a condition of an agreement for
the receipt of a grant under this provision, a collaborative shall
ensure that every student who enrolls in the baccalaureate degree
program offered by the collaborative prior to an announcement of the
termination of the collaborative has an opportunity to complete the
coursework necessary to obtain a baccalaureate degree.
The bill would require that, on or before April 1, 2012, the
Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges submit
a report to the Legislature and the Department of Finance on the
efficacy of the program established by this bill. The bill would
provide that its provisions would become inoperative on July 1, 2014,
and that its provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2015.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 78016.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
78016.5. (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as
the California Community College Baccalaureate Partnership Act. The
California Community College Baccalaureate Partnership Program is
hereby established for the following purposes:
(1) To encourage baccalaureate degree-granting institutions to
partner with community colleges to offer baccalaureate degree
programs that will offer instruction entirely on the participating
community college campus.
(2) To bring opportunities to earn baccalaureate degrees to areas
with low college-going rates or limited access to baccalaureate
degree-granting institutions.
(b) (1) The Office of the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges is authorized to annually award up to two grants, not to
exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) each, to collaboratives
formed for the purpose of offering baccalaureate degree programs on
the participating community college campus or campuses. For the
purposes of this section, a collaborative is composed of at least one
community college and at least one baccalaureate degree-granting
institution. Pursuant to this section, the institutions participating
in a collaborative may share in a grant of up to fifty thousand
dollars ($50,000).
(2) (A) Priority for the receipt of grant funds under this
subdivision shall be given to applicant institutions that:
(i) Are located in areas of the state with the lowest
college-going rates and the lowest rates of earning baccalaureate
degrees.
(ii) Demonstrate that the baccalaureate degree programs offered by
the applicant meet a documented labor market demand.
(iii) Identify the resources necessary to offer those programs.
(B) The funds granted under this subdivision are for one-time
startup costs of the collaborative.
(3) The two grants authorized under this section may be awarded
under this section in any fiscal year only to the extent that funding
for this program is provided in the annual Budget Act. It is the
intent of the Legislature to encourage community colleges and
baccalaureate degree-granting institutions to use existing resources
to establish degree-granting collaboratives within the meaning of
this section even during fiscal years when this program is not
funded.
(4) It is the intent of the Legislature that no collaborative
effort funded under this section may be terminated abruptly, thus
leaving its enrolled students without a way to earn a baccalaureate
degree. As a condition of an agreement for the receipt of a grant
under this section, a collaborative shall ensure that every student
who enrolls in the baccalaureate degree program offered by the
collaborative prior to an announcement of the termination of the
collaborative has an opportunity to complete the coursework necessary
to obtain a baccalaureate degree.
(c) On or before April 1, 2012, the Office of the Chancellor of
the California Community Colleges shall submit a report to the
Legislature and the Department of Finance on the efficacy of the
program established by this section.
(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2014, and, as
of January 1, 2015, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before July 1, 2014, deletes or extends
the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.