AB 595, as amended, Gomez. Community colleges: priority enrollmentbegin insert.end insert
begin insertExisting law, the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, defines “matriculation” as a process that brings a college and a student into an agreement for the purpose of achieving the student’s educational goals and completing the student’s course of study. The act specifies the responsibilities of students and institutions entering into the agreement, including, among others, a student’s responsibility to identify an academic and career goal, to declare a specific course of study, and to be diligent in class attendance and the completion of assigned coursework.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would state the intent of the Legislature that any student who receives priority registration for enrollment shall comply with the matriculation requirements of the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012.
end insertExisting 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.begin insert The bill would make this provision inoperative on January 1, 2017.end insert
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 66025.91 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert Each community college district, with respect
4to each campus in its jurisdiction that administers a priority
5enrollment system, shall grant priority registration for enrollment
6to students in the Community College Extended Opportunity
7Programs and Services program, pursuant to Article 8
8(commencing with Section 69640), and disabled students, within
9the meaning of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
10(42 U.S.C. Sec. 12101 et seq.).
11(b) This section shall become inoperative on January 1, 2017,
12unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1,
132017, deletes or extends that date.
Section 66025.95 is added to the Education Code, to
15read:
It is the intent of the Legislature that any student
2who receives priority registration for enrollment shall comply with
3the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 78212.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
6this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
7local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
8pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
94 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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