BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 1713 (Furutani)
As Amended August 3, 2010
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |74-0 |(April 22, |SENATE: |33-0 |(August 5, |
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Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.
SUMMARY : Deletes, consolidates, and modifies specified reports
that are statutorily required of the California Community
Colleges (CCC). Specifically, this bill :
1)Repeals a requirement that CCC and the Superintendent of
Public Instruction convene a working group of adult education
and data experts to review and report on the feasibility,
design, and cost of a common data set in adult education by
July 1, 2007.
2)Authorizes CCC to consolidate annual reports on concurrent
enrollment and special admits into a single report and changes
the due date from November 1 to March 1.
3)Changes the due date from May 1 to July 1 for an annual report
on the amount of full-time equivalent students claimed by each
CCC district for career development and college preparation
courses.
4)Makes other clarifying and technical language changes.
The Senate amendments :
1)Restored a requirement that the governing bodies of the three
public higher education segments report to the Legislature on
the status and plans of their respective segments'
implementation of a common course numbering system.
2)Restored language requiring CSU and CCC to evaluate their
foster youth programs as specified.
3)Made technical and clarifying changes.
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EXISTING LAW requires CCC to provide the Legislature with
approximately 43 reports.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY is substantially similar to the
version approved by the Senate except the Assembly version:
1)Deleted a requirement that CCC, CSU, and UC report to the
Legislature on the status and plans of their respective
segments' implementation of a common course numbering system.
2)Deleted a requirement that CSU and CCC evaluate the extent to
which their current programs are meeting the needs of foster
youth and how those outreach and retention services can be
improved.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee analysis, minor savings to the CCC Chancellor's Office
and to the districts.
COMMENTS : In order to promote transparency and oversight, the
Legislature has adopted various reporting requirements for its
higher education segments. However, as the number of reports
mounted, questions arose about the usefulness of these reports
to the state and their resource burden on the segments.
AB 1182 (Brownley), Chapter 386, Statutes of 2009, eliminated,
restructured, and reorganized 45 reports to the Legislature that
are required of the University of California (UC), the
California State University (CSU), and CCC. AB 1182 was the
product of a work group comprised of legislative staff, the
Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and the
California Postsecondary Education Commission and included the
work group's consensus recommendations on the reporting
requirements provided by UC, CSU, and CCC, as well as the
concerns raised by the Governor in his veto of a similar bill-AB
1821 (Brownley) of 2008. In addition, AB 1585 (Committee on
Accountability and Administrative Review), Chapter 7, Statutes
of 2010, modified the list of state agency reports maintained by
the Legislative Counsel.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960
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