BILL NUMBER: AB 2497	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Solorio

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add and repeal Section 89007.7 of the Education Code,
relating to the California State University.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2497, as introduced, Solorio. California State University:
Early Start Program.
   Existing law establishes the California State University, under
the administration of the Trustees of the California State University
(CSU), as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in
this state.
   This bill would express the finding and declaration of the
Legislature that the trustees adopted an Early Start Program at their
May 2010 meeting. The bill would provide that, on and after January
1, 2014, the trustees and chancellor would have no authority to
implement CSU the Early Start Program unless a specific appropriation
is made for its implementation in the annual Budget Act.
   The bill would require, commencing on January 1, 2014, and every 5
years thereafter, that the trustees and chancellor submit a report
to the Legislature detailing the impact of the CSU Early Start
Program on student mathematics and English proficiency. The bill
would authorize the trustees, as part of that report, to request the
Legislature to include a specific appropriation for the
implementation of the CSU Early Start Program in the annual Budget
Act.
   The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2018.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 89007.7 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   89007.7.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the
California State University Early Start Program was adopted pursuant
to Executive Order No. 1048 at the May 2010 meeting of the Trustees
of the California State University with the stated goal of
facilitating a student's graduation through changes in policies on
fulfilling entry-level proficiencies in mathematics and English.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other law:
   (1) On and after January 1, 2014, the trustees and chancellor
shall have no authority to implement the California State University
(CSU) Early Start Program unless a specific appropriation is made for
the implementation of the CSU Early Start Program in the annual
Budget Act.
   (2) Commencing on January 1, 2014, and every five years
thereafter, the trustees and chancellor shall submit a report to the
Legislature detailing the impact of the CSU Early Start Program on
student mathematics and English proficiency. As part of the report to
the Legislature required by this paragraph, the trustees may request
the Legislature to include a specific appropriation for the
implementation of the CSU Early Start Program in the annual Budget
Act. The report shall be submitted in accordance with Section 9795 of
the Government Code.
   (3) Upon receipt of the report required by paragraph (2), the
Legislature, as part of the annual deliberations on the proposed
state budget, shall review the report and the request, if any, for
the inclusion of a specific appropriation for the implementation of
the CSU Early Start Program in the annual Budget Act.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2018, deletes or extends
that date.