BILL NUMBER: SB 73	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  592
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 6, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 6, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 8, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 7, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 6, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 14, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

                        JANUARY 14, 2005

   An act relating to public postsecondary education, making an
appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 73, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review   Public
postsecondary education: master's degree nursing programs.
   This bill would appropriate $3,440,000, as scheduled, from the
General Fund to the Regents of the University of California and the
Trustees of the California State University for the 2005-06 fiscal
year for one-time expenditures for instructional equipment, classroom
and laboratory renovations, curriculum development, and faculty
recruitment.
   The bill would require that, pursuant to funding to be
appropriated in the Budget Act of 2006, the regents and the trustees
increase, by at least 130, the number of full-time equivalent
students in entry-level master's degree nursing programs in their
respective segments, beginning in the 2006-07 fiscal year.
   The bill would require the regents and the trustees to each
provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature on or before
February 1, 2006, on the proposed expenditure of the funds
appropriated in this bill by the respective segments in the 2005-06
fiscal year.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Appropriation: yes.


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


  SECTION 1.  (a) The sum of three million four hundred forty
thousand dollars ($3,440,000) is hereby appropriated from the General
Fund for the 2005-06 fiscal year in accordance with the following
schedule:
   (1) One million seven hundred twenty thousand dollars ($1,720,000)
to the Regents of the University of California for one-time
expenditures for instructional equipment, classroom and laboratory
renovations, curriculum development, and faculty recruitment.
   (2) One million seven hundred twenty thousand dollars ($1,720,000)
to the Trustees of the California State University for one-time
expenditures for instructional equipment, classroom and laboratory
renovations, curriculum development, and faculty recruitment.
   (c) Pursuant to funding to be appropriated in the Budget Act of
2006, the Regents of the University of California and the Trustees of
the California State University shall increase, by at least 130, the
number of full-time equivalent students in entry-level master's
degree nursing programs in their respective segments, beginning in
the 2006-07 fiscal year. This increased number of students shall be
in addition to the number of master's nursing students in each
segment in the 2005-06 fiscal year. Each segment may also increase
the number of bachelor's nursing students.
   (d) The Regents of the University of California and the Trustees
of the California State University shall each provide a report to the
Governor and the Legislature on or before February 1, 2006. These
reports shall relate to the proposed expenditure of the funds
appropriated in subdivision (a) by the respective segments in the
2005-06 fiscal year.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to make funding available in time for the beginning of
the 2005-06 academic year, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.