Amended in Assembly April 1, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 634

Introduced by Assembly Member Gomez

February 20, 2013

An act to amend Section 94818 of the Education Code, relating to private postsecondary education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 634, as amended, Gomez. Private postsecondary education: avocational education.

The California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, until January 1, 2015, provides for the regulation of private postsecondary educational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law exempts certain institutions from those provisions, including institutions that offer solely avocational or recreational education programs, and defines the term avocational education as education offered for the purpose of personal begin delete , end delete entertainment, pleasure, or enjoyment.

This bill would begin delete expand the definition of “avocational education” to also include education offered for the purpose of personal enhancement end delete begin insert require the bureau to promulgate regulations to clarify the definition of “avocational education” for those purposes end insert .

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 94818 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

94818.  

begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert “Avocational education” means education offered
for the purpose of personal begin delete enhancement, end delete entertainment, pleasure,
or enjoyment.

begin insert

(b) The bureau shall promulgate regulations to clarify the
definition of avocational education for purposes of this section.

end insert