BILL ANALYSIS
SB 511
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 511 ( Education Committee)
As Amended August 24, 2009
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :36-0
HIGHER EDUCATION 9-0 EDUCATION 11-0
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|Ayes:|Portantino, Conway, |Ayes:|Brownley, Nestande, |
| |Block, Cook, Fong, | |Ammiano, Arambula, |
| |Galgiani, Huber, Ma, | |Buchanan, Carter, Eng, |
| |Ruskin | |Garrick, Miller, Solorio, |
| | | |Torlakson |
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APPROPRIATIONS 12-0
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|Ayes:|De Leon, Ammiano, Charles |
| |Calderon, Coto, Davis, |
| |Fuentes, Hall, John A. Perez, |
| |Skinner, Solorio, Torlakson, |
| |Hill |
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SUMMARY : Extends until January 1, 2015, the California State
Law Library's authority to charge fees and makes conforming and
technical changes to several provisions of the Education Code.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Extends the California State Law Library's fee authority from
January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2015.
2)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.
3)Clarifies that participants who fail to complete the
requirements for various loan assumption programs "retain"
rather than "resume" or "assume" responsibility for any
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remaining loan obligations.
4)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 : Continued annual revenue of around $450,000 from
the civil filing fee to support the California State Law
Library.
COMMENTS : Current law requires a fee of $485 for filing a
notice of appeal in a civil case or a petition for a writ within
the original civil jurisdiction of the court of appeal. Current
law also requires that $65 of each of these fees be placed in
the State Law Library Account, which is used to support state
operations costs for California State Law Library. However,
this requirement will sunset on January 1, 2010, at which point
the California State Law Library will no longer be authorized to
receive any of the filing fees for its support costs.
As one of several Education Code "clean-up" bills that are
introduced every year to make non-controversial revisions, this
bill corrects errors, resolves conflicts, and deletes obsolete
references that relate to postsecondary education, as follows:
1)Section 1: AB 519 (Committee on Budget), Chapter 757,
Statutes of 2008, which was the 2008-09 Budget education
trailer bill, chaptered out provisions of SB 946 (Scott),
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2008, which established the
California Community Colleges Early Assessment Pilot Program.
Thus, 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. This bill corrects
this chaptering-out problem.
2)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, this bill clarifies that the
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participants continue to be responsible for any remaining loan
obligations.
3)Section 8: Section 87482.5 was amended by AB 591 (Dymally),
Chapter 84, Statutes of 2008, to increase from 60% to 67% the
proportion of hours per week of a full-time faculty assignment
that an individual employed to teach adult or community
college courses may 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.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960
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