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                         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.