BILL NUMBER: AB 595	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add Section 66025.91 to the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 595, as introduced, Gomez. Community colleges: priority
enrollment
   Existing law requires the California State University and each
community college district, with respect to each campus in their
respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment
system, to grant priority in that system for registration for
enrollment to any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the
United States and to a foster youth or former foster youth, as
provided.
   This bill would require a community college district to grant
priority registration for enrollment to students in the Community
College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services program and to
disabled students, as provided.
   By imposing the above requirement on a community college district,
the bill would create a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 66025.91 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66025.91.  Each community college district, with respect to each
campus in its jurisdiction that administers a priority enrollment
system, shall grant priority for registration for enrollment to
students in the Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and
Services program, pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section
69640), and disabled students, within the meaning of the federal
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 12101 et
seq.).
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.