Amended in Senate June 18, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 2558


Introduced by Assembly Member Williams

February 21, 2014


An act to amend Sections 87150 and 87151 of, and to repeal and add Section 87152 of, the Education Code, relating to community colleges.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2558, as amended, Williams. Community colleges: faculty and staff development.

Existing law establishes the Community College Faculty and Staff Development Fund, to be administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, for purposes of providing state general funds to community colleges for supporting locally developed and implemented faculty and staff development programs. Existing law requires the board of governors to annually allocate funds appropriated for these purposes to each community college district whose chief executive officer has submitted to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges an affidavit that includes specified information. Existing law limits the allocation a community college district can receive from the Community College Faculty and Staff Development Fund to a maximum of 2% of the community college district’s fiscal year revenues for the prior fiscal year.

This bill would eliminate the Community College Faculty and Staff Development Fund and instead establish the Community College Professional Development Program. The bill would require anybegin delete availableend delete fundingbegin insert appropriated for this programend insert to be allocated, in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board of governors, to community college districts that provide professional development opportunities for both faculty and staff. The bill would require community college districts receiving this funding to include the employee’s time used participating in the Community College Professional Development Program in the employee’s contractually obligated hours. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

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

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

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SECTION 1.  

Section 87150 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:

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87150.  

There is hereby established the Community College
4Professional Development Program, to be administered by the
5board of governors, the purpose of which is to provide state general
6funds to community colleges for supporting locally developed and
7implemented faculty and staff development programs.

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SEC. 2.  

Section 87151 of the Education Code is amended to
9read:

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87151.  

The board of governors shall annually allocate funds,
11when appropriated for purposes of this article, only to a community
12college district whose chief executive officer has submitted to the
13chancellor an affidavit that includes all of the following:

14(a) A statement that each campus within the community college
15district has an advisory committee, composed of administrators,
16faculty, and staff representatives, which has assisted in the
17assessment of the faculty and staff development needs and in the
18design of the plan to meet those needs.

19(b) A campus human development resources plan has been
20completed for the current and subsequent fiscal years.

21(c) A report of the actual expenditures for faculty and staff
22development for the preceding year.

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SEC. 3.  

Section 87152 of the Education Code is repealed.

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SEC. 4.  

Section 87152 is added to the Education Code, to read:

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87152.  

(a) Anybegin delete availableend delete fundingbegin insert appropriated for purposes
26of this articleend insert
shall be allocated to the community college districts
27that provide professional development opportunities to both faculty
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2regulations adopted by the board of governors.

3(b) Community college districts that receive funding pursuant
4to this section shall include the employee’s time used participating
5in the Community College Professional Development Program in
6the employee’s contractually obligated hours.



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