BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2471
Author: Karnette (D)
Amended: 8/21/08 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORG. COMMITTEE : 8-0, 6/24/08
AYES: Battin, Denham, Harman, Negrete McLeod, Padilla,
Vincent, Wiggins, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Florez, Wyland
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 10-5, 08/07/08
AYES: Torlakson, Ashburn, Cedillo, Corbett, Florez, Kuehl,
Oropeza, Ridley-Thomas, Simitian, Yee
NOES: Cox, Aanestad, Dutton, Runner, Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 56-21, 5/28/08 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Digital Arts Studio Partnership and Workforce
Program Act
SOURCE : California Digital Arts Studio Partnership
DIGEST : This bill, until January 1, 2013, establishes
the Digital Arts Studio Partnership and Workforce Program
to train youth in digital technology skills. It requires
the program to be administered by the Governor's Office
according to specified criteria and subject to the
availability of funding for that purpose. It requires the
office, as the host agency for the program, to contract
with a nonprofit corporation meeting prescribed criteria to
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implement the program. The bill requires the Governor's
Office to establish an interagency agreement among various
entities and requires representatives from those entities
to meet at least twice annually and to perform various
duties with regard to the program. The bill requires the
Governor's Office to report to the Legislature annually on
the program beginning March 1, 2010.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/21/08 create a special fund
(the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program
Fund) in the State Treasury for the receipt of private
monies, to be administered by the host agency, upon
appropriation by the Legislature.
ANALYSIS : Existing law provides for the California Arts
Council (Council), which is a state agency that has the
mission to advance California through the arts and
creativity with an emphasis on children and artistically
underserved communities. The Council is tasked with
encouraging the widespread public participation in the
arts; help build strong arts organizations at the local
level; assist with the professional development of arts
leaders; promote awareness of the value of the arts; and
directly support arts programs for children and
communities. Under existing law, the Council consists of
11 members and a professional staff that has experience in
the arts, creative industries, education, community
development, state and local government, and the nonprofit
and for-profit sectors. Until January 1, 2006, there
existed the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration
Program which was established to designate three voluntary
public and private partnerships to train youth aged 13 to
18 in digital media arts.
This bill establishes, until January 1, 2013, and to the
extent funds are made available, the Digital Arts Studio
Partnership and Workforce Program (DASP) Act to create
voluntary regional public and private partnerships in
digital literacy, media arts and telecommunications
technology to train youth (ages 13-18) and their mentors.
This bill:
1.Requires the Office of the Governor (host agency), in
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consultation with the Division of Career Technical
Education in the California Department of Education and
the Chancellor's Office of the California Community
Colleges to administer DASP and specifies the tasks to be
undertaken.
2.Provides that the Office of the Governor, or Governor's
designee, shall implement the host agency provisions only
to the extent that funds are appropriated by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act, or other statute,
for these purposes.
3.Requires the host agency to contract with a non-profit
organization, and outlines the duties under the contract
and requirements for awarding of the contract.
4.Provides that no appropriation shall be made in the
annual Budget Act or other statute for the sole purpose
of providing funds for the operation of the DASP
non-profit corporation. Clarifies that the DASP
non-profit corporation may apply for, and utilize
existing state resources, including but not limited to,
workforce investment, career technical education, teacher
professional development, and funding for the arts,
media, and related facilities.
5.Creates the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Program Fund
within the State Treasury to receive private monies for
purposes of the program.
6.Requires the host agency to report on the progress of the
program beginning no later than March 1, 2010, and
annually, thereafter, to the Joint committee on the Arts,
the Assembly Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports,
Tourism, and Internet Media, the Assembly and Senate
Committees on Education, and the Legislative Analyst.
7.Sunsets DASP on January 1, 2013.
8.Defines various terms for purposes of DASP.
9.Makes a number of related legislative findings and
declarations.
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Background
Purpose of the Bill . According to the author's office,
"with AB 2471, business and non-profits will enjoy one-stop
shopping, community colleges will benefit from a seamless
transition of students from secondary school to college,
four year institutions will be able to benefit from
articulation agreements and consistent curriculum at the
high school and community college level, and students will
benefit by becoming expert in new technologies, not only in
theory but with real life 'studio' experiences. They will
build advanced, creative skills and story-telling capacity,
with the know-how to use and design applications, specific
soft-ware, and meld art and science. In short, they will
be the 'hybrid' worker, a blend of art and science that our
industry leaders proclaim they need."
Background . This bill establishes a workforce development
and education program operated through a public and private
partnership under a host agency, which coordinates the
activities of the various participants in the program
through a series of voluntary agreements. The host agency
will contract with a non-profit corporation for the
implementation of the activities of the DASP, including the
duty to contract with between five and seven regional DASP
organizations statewide.
This bill is the third bill to attempt to create an
operational DASP. The first, SB 1937 (Costa), chapter 80,
Statutes of 2002, created the program and housed it within
the Council. However, the bill was allowed to sunset in
2006 without ever being funded. A reauthorization bill, AB
252 (Dymally), passed the Legislature in 2006, but was
vetoed.
In his veto message, the Governor made it clear that he had
no objections to the program but opposed its placement
within the Lieutenant Governor's Office (as AB 252 proposed
to do). In the veto message, the Governor orders his
administration to "coordinate his effort in the coming year
(2007)."
According to the author's office, "after several meetings
with the administration, it was agreed that DASP would be
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placed inside the Governor's Office and operate through a
series of Interagency Agreements between business, arts and
education agencies in the state government. AB 2471 is the
result of those efforts."
The sponsor of the bill, the Digital Arts Studio
Partnership, argues that "after working in the education
field and in the government during the 90's, DASP
leadership observed and catalogued a number of structural
barriers, deficiencies and areas for improvement in the
quality and delivery of educational preparation for digital
media communications careers in California. The Digital
Arts Studio Partnership program (DASP) promotes a
comprehensive approach and organizational blueprint to
build the infrastructure for the Twenty-first Century
through voluntary public private partnerships and
collaborations at regional and state levels, between
industry partners, relevant government offices and
agencies, secondary schools, community colleges, and
four-year universities as well as a myriad non-profit
sector community arts, science and communications
organizations."
The California Arts Advocates write in support that,
"California's economy heavily dependent on digital media
arts because they are essential components to the two
largest employers, the information and entertainment
industries. However, California's education system has not
kept pace with rapid changes in digital technology,
specifically digital media arts, and graduate students that
are lacking skills that would help them enter the
information technology workforce."
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/21/08)
California Digital Arts Studio Partnership (source)
American Electronics Association
California Alliance for Arts Education
California Arts Advocates
California Cable and Telecommunications Association
Pixar
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Tower of Youth
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Aghazarian, Arambula, Beall, Berg, Brownley,
Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter, Cook, Coto, Davis,
De La Torre, De Leon, DeSaulnier, Dymally, Emmerson, Eng,
Evans, Feuer, Fuentes, Furutani, Galgiani, Garcia,
Hancock, Hayashi, Hernandez, Horton, Huffman, Jones,
Karnette, Krekorian, Laird, Leno, Levine, Lieber, Lieu,
Ma, Mendoza, Mullin, Nava, Nunez, Parra, Portantino,
Price, Sharon Runner, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Solorio,
Spitzer, Strickland, Swanson, Torrico, Tran, Wolk, Bass
NOES: Adams, Anderson, Benoit, Blakeslee, DeVore, Duvall,
Fuller, Gaines, Garrick, Huff, Jeffries, Keene, La Malfa,
Maze, Nakanishi, Niello, Plescia, Silva, Smyth, Villines,
Walters
NO VOTE RECORDED: Berryhill, Houston, Soto
TSM:cm 8/23/08 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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