BILL NUMBER: AB 634	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2013

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  ,  entertainment, pleasure, or
enjoyment.
   This bill would  expand the definition of "avocational
education" to also include education offered for the purpose of
personal enhancement   require the bureau to promulgate
regulations to clarify the definition of "avocational education" for
those purposes  .
   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.   (a)    "Avocational education" means
education offered for the purpose of personal  enhancement,
 entertainment, pleasure, or enjoyment. 
   (b) The bureau shall promulgate regulations to clarify the
definition of avocational education for purposes of this section.