BILL NUMBER: AB 515	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to add Section 78302 to the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 515, as introduced, Brownley. Public postsecondary education:
community colleges: extension program.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, which
are administered by the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges. The governing board of any community college
district is authorized, without approval of the board of trustees, to
establish and maintain community service classes in civic,
vocational, literacy, health, homemaking, technical, and general
education, as specified.
   This bill would authorize the governing board of any community
college district, without approval of the board of governors, to
establish and maintain an extension program offering credit courses,
as specified.
   The bill would state the intent of the Legislature in enacting
this provision.
   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 78302 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   78302.  (a) In enacting this section, it is the intent of the
Legislature to provide local communities additional flexibility to
meet community needs in areas such as advanced technology and
workforce development; to provide members of the public access to
credit programs offered under contracted arrangements with other
agencies and companies; to address existing limitations in access to
extension programs due to geographical distance or time of travel; to
augment use of local community college facilities authorized by
community investments in local elections subsequent to the passage of
Proposition 39 in 2001; and to provide other benefits, both tangible
and intangible.
   (b) The governing board of any community college district may,
without the approval of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, establish and maintain an extension program
offering credit courses.
   (c) Governing boards shall not expend General Fund moneys to
establish and maintain extension classes.
   (d) Governing boards may charge students enrolled in extension
classes such fees as they deem appropriate.
   (e) Degree credit courses offered as extension courses shall meet
all the requirements in subdivision (a) of Section 55002 of Title 5
of the California Code of Regulations.