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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 330
Author: Chau (D), et al.
Amended: 6/17/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/4/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Hancock, Huff, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Correa, Vacancy, Vacancy
SENATE BUSINESS, PROF. & ECON. DEVELOP. COMM. : 8-0, 6/23/14
AYES: Lieu, Wyland, Berryhill, Corbett, Galgiani, Hernandez,
Hill, Torres
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 53-24, 1/29/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Student financial aid: information
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires the California Student Aid
Commission (CSAC) and Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education
(BPPE) to post additional links on their Internet Web sites to
provide information such as net cost, financial aid, and student
loan debt that can be used by students and families to evaluate
their college choices.
ANALYSIS : Existing law establishes the Cal Grant Program
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under the administration of CSAC, and establishes eligibility
requirements for awards under the program for participating
students attending qualifying institutions. As a condition for
participation in the program, existing law requires each Cal
Grant participating institution to annually report specified
information to CSAC, which CSAC is required to provide on its
Internet Website in a searchable database. Existing law also
requires the CSAC to provide other information and links useful
to students and parents who are in the process of selecting a
college or university.
Existing law also requires, as a condition of participation in
the Cal Grant Program, that a "qualifying institution" provide
information (on an enrollment or centralized admission website,
or on enrollment applications or other information distributed
to students) on where to access California license exam passage
rates for the most recent available year for undergraduate
programs that lead to employment in a field that requires
licensing.
Existing law, until January 1, 2015, establishes the California
Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 (Act), which
provides for the approval, regulation, and enforcement of
private postsecondary educational institutions by the BPPE
within the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Among other things, the Act requires a regulated institution to
provide a prospective student with a School Performance Fact
Sheet containing information on completion rates, placement
rates, license examination passage rates, salary or wage
information, the most recent three-year cohort default rate and
the percentage of enrolled students receiving federal student
loans (if the institution participates in federal financial
programs) and other specified information.
This bill requires CSAC and BPPE to clearly post, in a
conspicuous location on its Internet Website links to the
following:
1.The College Affordability and Transparency Center of the
United States Department of Education or any successor entity.
2.The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems or
any successor entity.
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3.Any entity CSAC deems may provide accurate and useful
information relating to institutional net cost, financial aid,
or student loan debt that can be used by students and families
to evaluate postsecondary educational options.
This bill becomes operative only if an act that becomes
operative on or before January 1, 2015, or eliminates the
January 1, 2015 repeal date of the California Private
Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, as specified.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/5/14)
Consumer Attorneys of California
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author, "comprehensive
and meaningful consumer information for students and their
families is not readily available to make the best financial and
educational decisions about which post-secondary education
institution to attend." The author intends for this bill to
"centralize information about student debt within the CSAC
and/or the BPPE to provide families with information that is
easy to use, compare, and understand, as a way to decide between
educational institutions."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 53-24, 1/29/14
AYES: Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta,
Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau,
Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Garcia, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Hall,
Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal,
Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, V. Manuel Pérez,
Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,
Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A.
Pérez
NOES: Achadjian, Allen, Bigelow, Chávez, Conway, Dahle,
Donnelly, Beth Gaines, Gatto, Grove, Hagman, Harkey, Jones,
Linder, Maienschein, Mansoor, Melendez, Morrell, Nestande,
Olsen, Patterson, Wagner, Waldron, Wilk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Logue, Perea, Weber
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PQ:nl 8/5/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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