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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 548
Author: Salas (D)
Amended: 5/21/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/14/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Hancock, Hueso, Huff, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Correa, Galgiani
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 1/30/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : California Community College registered nursing
programs
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill extends until January 1, 2020 the
California Community College (CCC) districts associate degree
nursing (ADN) programs admissions process and requires the
Chancellor of the CCC (CCCCO) to submit a report on or before
March 1, 2015, and annually thereafter to the Legislature and
the Governor, as specified.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1.Allows CCC districts to use any diagnostic assessment tools
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that are commonly used in registered nursing programs and
approved by the CCCCO and, if, after using an approved
diagnostic tool, the CCC registered nursing program determines
that the number of applicants to the program exceeds its
capacity, the program is authorized to use additional
multicriteria screening measures. Existing law also allows a
CCC district to (a) exclude an applicant to a registered
nursing program if the applicant is not a resident of that
district or has not completed prerequisite courses in that
district; and, (b) implement policies, procedures, and
systems, including, but not limited to, priority registration
systems, that have the effect of excluding an applicant or
student who is not a resident of that district from a
registered nursing program of that district.
2.Requires CCC districts to adopt and implement merit-based
admissions policies for nursing programs if, for any academic
term, there are more applicants seeking enrollment in that
program than may reasonably be accommodated.
This bill extends until January 1, 2020 the CCC districts' ADN
programs admissions process and requires CCCCO to submit a
report on or before March 1, 2015, and annually thereafter to
the Legislature and the Governor that examines and includes, but
is not necessarily limited to, both of the following:
1.The participation, retention, and completion rates in CCC
registered nursing programs of students admitted through a
multicriteria screening process, disaggregated by the age,
gender, ethnicity, and the language spoken at the home of
those students.
2.Information on the annual impact, if any, the Seymour-Campbell
Student Success Act had on the matriculation services for
students admitted through the multicriteria screening process.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/20/14)
California Hospital Association
California Workforce Association
Coast Community College District
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Community College League of California
Kern Community College District
Los Angeles Community College District
Los Rios Community College District
Mt. San Jacinto Community College District
Rio Hondo Community College District
South Orange County Community College District
United Nurses Associations of California / Union of Health Care
Professionals
Yosemite Community College District
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office,
California continues to suffer from a serious nursing shortage.
The author states, "There are many individuals seeking admission
to our [CCC] nursing programs and yet, approximately 12,000
applicants are turned away every year due to a lack of space."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 1/30/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier,
Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell,
Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Jones, Levine, Linder, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor,
Medina, Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande,
Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk,
Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner,
Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk,
Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Donnelly, Jones-Sawyer, Logue, Melendez
PQ:k 6/23/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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