BILL NUMBER: AB 595	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 15, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Wilk)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add  Section   Sections 
66025.91  and 66025.95  to the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 595, as amended, Gomez. Community colleges: priority enrollment
 .  
   Existing 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.  
   This 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. 
   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.  The bill would make this
provision inoperative on January 1, 2017. 
   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.   (a)    Each community college
district, with respect to each campus in its jurisdiction that
administers a priority enrollment system, shall grant priority
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.). 
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on January 1, 2017,
unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1,
2017, deletes or extends that date.  
  SEC. 2.    Section 66025.95 is added to the Education
Code, to read:
   66025.95.  It is the intent of the Legislature that any student
who receives priority registration for enrollment shall comply with
the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 78212. 
   SEC. 2.   SEC. 3.   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.