BILL NUMBER: SB 1382	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Veterans Affairs (Denham (Chair),
Cedillo, Correa, Maldonado, Negrete McLeod, Wiggins, and Wyland)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

    An act to amend Section 1180.1 of the Military and
Veterans Code, relating to veterans.   An act to amend
Section 69432.9 of the Education Code, relating to student financial
aid. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1382, as amended, Committee on Veterans Affairs. 
Military and veterans: veterans affairs: buildings, memorials, and
cemeteries.   Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program:
methodology.  
   Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant
Program, establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards, the
California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Awards,
the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and
the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid
Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under
these programs for participating students attending qualifying
institutions. The program specifies the minimum financial need
required for the receipt of Cal Grant awards and requires, for
purposes of determining financial need, that financial need to be
calculated consistent with the commission's methodology for financial
need for the 2000-01 academic year.  
   This bill would delete the requirement that the calculation of
financial need be consistent with that methodology and would make
other technical, nonsubstantive changes.  
   Existing law authorizes the formation of memorial districts for
the purposes of providing and maintaining veterans facilities, as
specified.  
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change. 

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 69432.9 of the  
Education Code   is amended to read: 
   69432.9.  (a) A Cal Grant applicant shall submit a complete
official financial aid application pursuant to Section 69433 and
applicable regulations adopted by the commission.
   (b) Financial need shall be determined using the federal financial
need methodology pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 69506 and
applicable regulations adopted by the commission, and as established
by Title IV of the  Federal   federal 
Higher Education Act of 1965  , as amended  (20 U.S.C. Secs.
1070 et  seq., as amended)   seq.)  .
 The calculation of financial need shall be consistent with
the commission's methodology for financial need for the 2000-01
academic year. 
   (1) "Expected family contribution," with respect to an applicant
shall be determined using the federal methodology pursuant to
subdivision (a) of Section 69506 (as established by Title IV of the
federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. Secs.
1070 et seq.)) and applicable rules and regulations adopted by the
commission.
   (2)  Financial need is defined as  
"Financial need" means the difference between the student's cost
of attendance as determined by the commission and the expected
family contribution. The calculation of financial need shall be
consistent with  the commission's methodology for determining
financial need for the 2000-01 academic year as established by
 Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended (20 U.S.C. Secs. 1070 et seq.).
   (3) (A) The minimum financial need required for receipt of an
initial Cal Grant A or Cal Grant C award shall be  not
  no  less than the maximum annual award value for
the applicable institution, plus an additional one thousand five
hundred dollars ($1,500) of financial need.
   (B) The minimum financial need required for receipt of an initial
Cal Grant B award shall be no less than seven hundred dollars ($700).

   (c) The commission shall require that a grade point average be
submitted for all Cal Grant A and B applicants, except for those
permitted to provide test scores in lieu of a grade point average.
The commission shall require that each report of a grade point
average include a certification, executed under penalty of perjury,
by a school official, that the grade point average reported is
accurately reported. The certification shall include a statement that
it is subject to review by the commission or its designee. The
commission shall adopt regulations that establish a grace period for
receipt of the grade point average and any appropriate corrections,
and that set forth the circumstances under which a student may submit
a specified test score designated by the commission, by regulation,
in lieu of submitting a qualifying grade point average. It is the
intent of the Legislature that high schools and institutions of
higher education certify the grade point averages of their students
in time to meet the application deadlines imposed by this chapter.

  SECTION 1.    Section 1180.1 of the Military and
Veterans Code is amended to read:
   1180.1.  Within five days after the district formation election
has been called, the legislative body which has called the election
shall transmit, by registered mail, a written notification of the
election call to the executive officer of the local agency formation
commission of the county or principal county in which the territory
or major portion of the territory of the proposed district is
located. The written notice shall include the name and a description
of the proposed district, and may be in the form of a certified copy
of the resolution adopted by the legislative body calling the
district formation election.
   The executive officer, within five days after being notified that
a district formation election has been called, shall submit to the
commission, for its approval or modification, an impartial analysis
of the proposed district formation.
   The impartial analysis shall not exceed 500 words in length and
shall include a specific description of the boundaries of the
district proposed to be formed.
   The local agency formation commission, within five days after the
receipt of the executive officer's analysis, shall approve or modify
the analysis and submit it to the officials in charge of conducting
the district formation election.