BILL NUMBER: AB 835	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  224
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 14, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 18, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 29, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mitchell
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Dickinson, Nestande, and Solorio)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 88532 of the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 835, Mitchell. Community colleges: Economic and Workforce
Development Program.
   Existing law, until January 1, 2013, establishes the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program.
Existing law provides for the awarding of grants for this program,
and provides that this program shall only be implemented during
fiscal years for which funds are appropriated for these purposes.
Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, as part of the program, to assist economic and
workforce regional development centers and consortia to improve
linkages and career-technical education pathways between high schools
and community colleges, in a manner that, among other things,
improves the quality of career exploration and career outreach
materials. Existing law also requires the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges to develop an implementation strategy
for achieving this goal, as specified.
   The bill would authorize a community college district to enroll
high school pupils who are not residents of the district in a program
developed and implemented by the district, as specified.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 88532 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   88532.  (a) The board of governors shall assist economic and
workforce regional development centers and consortia, including
middle and junior high schools or high schools and regional
occupational centers and programs, to improve linkages and
career-technical education pathways between high schools and
community colleges for the benefit of pupils and students in both
education systems. This assistance shall include all of the
following:
   (1) Expanding certificate programs in identified economic
development program strategic priority areas.
   (2) Aligning existing technical preparation programs and
career-technical education curriculum between high schools and
community colleges to more targeted industry-driven programs through
the models consistent with economic and workforce development
strategic priority areas.
   (3) Promoting the California Community Colleges Economic and
Workforce Development Program's successful integration of business
and emerging industries with career technical programs provided in
high schools.
   (4) Creating new articulated courses between high schools and
community colleges and, where appropriate, four-year institutions.
   (5) Accelerating education and training for those students who
choose to be prepared for career and technical employment
opportunities in less traditional and more expeditious methods while
maintaining and improving student competencies.
   (6) Exploring new and more relevant career and technical practicum
models that integrate coursework and student internship.
   (7) Improving the quality of career exploration and career
outreach materials.
   (8) Disseminating materials and curriculum to all middle schools
and senior high schools.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a community college district
may enroll a high school pupil who is not a resident of that
community college district in a program that is developed and
implemented by the community college district pursuant to this
section, and the district shall not be subject to any other
geographic limitations for these purposes if the program is designed
to serve high school pupils or involves multiple school districts or
community college districts, or both, and the program is not offered
at the pupil's high school.
   (c) The chancellor shall develop an implementation strategy for
the program objectives delineated in this section as a part of the
annual expenditure plan submitted to the advisory committee for the
California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development
Program and the board of governors.
   (d) This section shall be operative only in fiscal years for which
funds have been appropriated by the Legislature expressly for the
purposes of this section.
   (e) The board of governors shall ensure that elementary and
secondary school educators strongly collaborate with college faculty
in implementing this section.