BILL ANALYSIS
AB 1821
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 1821 (Brownley)
As Amended August 18, 2008
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: | |(May 27, 2008) |SENATE: |37-0 |(August 22, |
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(vote not relevant)
Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.
SUMMARY : Eliminates, restructures, and reorganizes various
higher education reporting requirements of the state's public
universities and colleges to provide for more effective,
manageable, and transparent reporting to the Legislature.
The Senate amendments delete the Assembly version of this bill,
and instead:
1)Eliminate, restructure, and reorganize approximately 34
reports to the Legislature that are required of the University
of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and
the California Community Colleges (CCC).
2)Require, unless otherwise specified, that reports submitted to
the Legislature by UC, CSU, and CCC be delivered to the Senate
and Assembly budget subcommittees on education, the Senate
Education and Assembly Higher Education policy committees, the
Legislative Analyst's Office, the Office of the Secretary of
Education, and the Department of Finance.
3)Authorize, unless otherwise specified, the submission of
reports in Portable Document Format or comparable electronic
format.
4)Ensure that the provisions of this bill will not be
chaptered-out by SB 1437 (Padilla), pending in the Assembly,
which amends the same code section.
5)Declare legislative intent that:
a) The 2009-10 Budget Act incorporate modifications made by
this bill to three required reports;
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b) Non-codified requests for reports from UC, CSU, and CCC
adopted prior to 2008, including provisional or
supplemental language in budget acts adopted prior to 2008,
have been subsumed, where appropriate, within statute by
this bill;
c) Nothing in this bill shall prevent the Legislature from
adopting new reporting requirements of any kind; and,
d) UC, CSU, and CCC are expected to fully respond to all
statutory reporting requirements by the stated deadlines.
EXISTING LAW and the annual Budget Act, via supplemental or
provisional reporting language adopted therein, requires the
three public postsecondary education segments to report to the
Legislature a combined average of approximately 115 reports per
year.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill clarified that students
participating in the Competitive Cal Grant B award program may
use a college grade point average (GPA), if they have one, in
lieu of a high school GPA. These provisions were deleted from
this bill and added to AB 2260 (Assembly Higher Education
Committee), Chapter 235, Statutes of 2008, in order to provide a
vehicle to restructure the state's higher education reporting
requirements.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, negligible state costs.
COMMENTS : UC, CSU, and CCC are collectively required to provide
an average of 115 annual reports to the Legislature. Some of
these reports have become obsolete or duplicative, while others
do not provide clear direction to the segments as to the content
or legislative recipients of the report. Finally, previous
budget bill language requires many of these reports, and the
applicability of supplemental budget language from previous
years is unclear.
This bill is intended to restructure and reorganize existing
reporting requirements to provide greater clarity and
prioritization for the segments and more effective, manageable,
and transparent reporting to the Legislature.
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Earlier this year, UC, CSU, and CCC provided lists of their
respective reporting requirements to a work group comprised of
legislative staff, the Department of Finance, the Legislative
Analyst's Office, and the California Postsecondary Education
Commission. This bill includes the work group's consensus
recommendations.
As noted previously, many of the existing reporting requirements
are non-codified. By moving approximately 25 of these
non-codified reporting requirements into statute, this bill
provides clear direction to the segments for this group of
reports and creates a more manageable system of reporting to the
Legislature. The approximately 10 other current non-codified
reporting requirements that are not included in this bill will
cease to be active reporting requirements as the result of
intent language contained in this bill, relieving the segments
of non-codified reporting requirements adopted before 2008.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960
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