BILL ANALYSIS
SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Gloria Romero, Chair
2009-2010 Regular Session
BILL NO: SB 511
AUTHOR: Committee on Education
AMENDED: April 14, 2009
FISCAL COMM: Yes HEARING DATE: April 29, 2009
URGENCY: No CONSULTANT:Kathleen Chavira
SUBJECT : Postsecondary Education
SUMMARY
This bill corrects technical errors and oversights, and
makes numerous non-controversial and conforming changes to
various provisions of the Education Code.
BACKGROUND
This bill is one of the annual Education Code clean up
bills that makes various non-controversial revisions to
statute. This education omnibus bill corrects errors,
resolves conflicts, and deletes obsolete references that
relate to postsecondary education.
By tradition, objection to any provision by the Department
of Finance, or any of the four legislative caucuses
prevents that provision from being included in this bill.
ANALYSIS
This bill corrects technical errors and oversights, and
makes numerous non-controversial and conforming changes to
various provisions of the Education Code. Specifically,
this bill:
1) Authorizes a parent or guardian to release
individual pupil test results of the STAR program to a
postsecondary educational institution for the purpose
of determining readiness for college-level coursework.
2) Clarifies that participants who fail to complete
the requirements for various loan assumption programs
"retain" rather than "resume" or "assume"
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responsibility for any remaining loan obligations.
3) Inserts a cross reference to existing law, which
establishes the percent hours per week considered a
full-time assignment for all community college
faculty, within community college clinical nursing
faculty provisions.
STAFF COMMENTS
1) Technical clean-up bill . This bill is a technical
clean up of the Education Code focused upon higher
education. The bill makes three changes which are
explained as follows:
a) Section 1 . Provisions of SB 946 (Scott,
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2008) affecting Section
60641 of the Education Code were chaptered out by
AB 519 (Committee on Budget, Chapter 757,
Statutes of 2008), which was the education
trailer bill for the 2008-09 Budget. The changes
authorized by the Legislature in SB 946 did not
take effect because AB 519 amended the same
education code section and was chaptered after SB
946.
b) Sections, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 . Amendments
to Sections 69613, 69613.6, 69667, 70101, 70104,
and 70124 of the Education Code clarify that
participants who fail to complete the
requirements for various loan assumption programs
"retain" rather than "resume" or "assume"
responsibility for any remaining loan
obligations. Although the assumption loan
programs provide assistance in the payment of
loan obligations in exchange for required
service, the participants continue to be
responsible for any remaining loan obligations.
These amendments make that clarification.
c) Section 8 . Section 87482.5 was amended by
AB 591 (Dymally, Chapter 84, Statutes of 2008) to
increase from 60 percent to 67 percent the
proportion of hours per week of a full-time
faculty assignment which an individual employed
to teach adult or community college courses may
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teach and still be classified as a temporary
employee. Section 87482 of the Education Code is
amended to cross reference Section 87482.5 in
order to conform clinical nursing faculty
provisions to current law.
2) Similar legislation . This bill is one of three
Education "clean-up" bills sponsored by the Committee
that make various non-controversial revisions to
statute. SB 509 (Senate Committee on Education) and SB
512 (Senate Committee on Education), are also on the
agenda for the committee's consideration today.
SUPPORT
None received.
OPPOSITION
None received.