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          Date of Hearing:   August 19, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

             SB 511 (Education Committee) - As Amended:  April 14, 2009 

          Policy Committee:                              Higher  
          EducationVote:  9-0 (Consent)
                        Education                             11-0  
          (Consent)

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

          SUMMARY  

          This bill makes conforming and technical changes to several  
          provisions of the Education Code relating primarily to higher  
          education.  Specifically, this bill:   

          1)Authorizes a parent or guardian to release individual pupil  
            test results of the Standardized Testing and Reporting 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 higher education loan assumption  
            programs "retain" rather than "resume" or "assume"  
            responsibility for any remaining loan obligations. 

          3)Inserts a cross reference to existing law that governs  
            community college clinical nursing faculty hours, which  
            establishes the percent of hours per week considered a  
            full-time assignment for all community college faculty.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible fiscal impact.

          COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  .  This is one of several Education Code "clean-up"  
            bills introduced every year to make non-controversial  
            revisions.  This bill corrects errors, resolves conflicts, and  








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            deletes obsolete references relating to postsecondary  
            education.  By tradition, the clean-up bills do not include  
            provisions that are opposed by the Department of Finance or  
            any of the four legislative caucuses.

           2)Related Legislation  .  SB 509 (Education Committee), also on  
            today's committee agenda, is an omnibus bill making various  
            changes in the statutes pertaining to K-12 education.  SB 512  
            (Education Committee)/Chapter 53 of 2009 is an omnibus act  
            that made changes specifically pertaining to K-12 teacher  
            credentialing.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081