BILL NUMBER: SB 1543	CHAPTERED  09/29/06

	CHAPTER  669
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 28, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 8, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 26, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 17, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Alarcon and Romero

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2006

   An act to add Section 66205.9 to the Education Code, relating to
the high school curriculum.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1543, Alarcon  High school curriculum: high school coursework
requirements.
   Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets forth, among
other things, the missions and functions of California's public and
independent segments of higher education, and their respective
institutions of higher education. Existing law establishes the
University of California, under the administration of the Regents of
the University of California, and the California State University,
under the administration of the Trustees of the California State
University, as 2 of the public segments of postsecondary education in
this state. Provisions of the Donahoe Higher Education Act apply to
the University of California only to the extent that the regents act,
by resolution, to make those provisions applicable.
   A provision of the act requires the California State University,
and requests the University of California, to establish model
academic standards for high school courses for pupils who wish to
attend those institutions.
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
coordinate the development, on a cyclical basis, of model curriculum
standards for a high school career technical course of study.
Existing law also requires the superintendent to develop a career
technical curriculum framework based on prescribed criteria.
   This bill would add to the Donahoe Higher Education Act a
provision providing that if, by July 1, 2008, either the University
of California or the California State University has not adopted, in
accordance with the criteria in existing law, model uniform academic
standards for career technical education that will satisfy the
completion of a general elective course requirement for the purposes
of admission to their respective universities, the regents are
requested to, and the trustees are required to, recognize the
completion of all high school career technical education courses that
meet the model curriculum standards developed by the superintendent
as satisfying the completion of a general elective course requirement
for the purposes of admission to their respective universities. The
bill would request the regents, and would require the trustees, to
make publicly available, upon their adoption, any model curriculum
standards for career technical education courses.
   The bill would not apply to any career technical education courses
that, as of January 1, 2007, are approved as satisfying the
admissions requirements of the University of California or the
California State University.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 66205.9 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66205.9.  (a) If, by July 1, 2008, the University of California
has not adopted model uniform academic standards for career technical
education courses, pursuant to Section 66205.5, that will satisfy
the completion of a general elective course requirement for the
purposes of admission to that university, the Regents of the
University of California are requested to recognize the completion of
all high school career technical education courses that meet the
model curriculum standards established pursuant to Sections 51226 and
51226.1 as satisfying the completion of a general elective course
requirement for the purposes of admission to that university.
   (b) If the Regents of the University of California adopt standards
for career technical education courses pursuant to Section 66205.5,
the University of California is requested to make those standards
publicly available upon their adoption.
   (c) If, by July 1, 2008, the California State University has not
adopted model uniform academic standards for career technical
education courses, pursuant to Section 66205.5, that will satisfy the
completion of a general elective course requirement for the purposes
of admission to that university, the Trustees of the California
State University shall recognize the completion of all high school
career technical education courses that meet the model curriculum
standards established pursuant to Sections 51226 and 51226.1 as
satisfying the completion of a general elective course requirement
for the purposes of admission to that university.
   (d) If the Trustees of the California State University adopt
standards for career technical education courses pursuant to Section
66205.5, the California State University shall make those standards
publicly available upon their adoption.
   (e) This section shall not apply to any career technical education
courses that, as of January 1, 2007, are approved as satisfying the
admissions requirements of the University of California or the
California State University.