Amended in Senate May 7, 2013

Amended in Senate April 25, 2013

Senate BillNo. 384


Introduced by Senators Gaines and DeSaulnier

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(Coauthor: Assembly Member Bonilla)

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February 20, 2013


An act to amend Section 70010.5 of the Education Code, relating to scholarships, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 384, as amended, Gaines. California Memorial Scholarship Program.

Existing law establishes the California Memorial Scholarship Program, administered by the Scholarshare Investment Board and funded by the California Memorial Scholarship Fund. Existing law states that the purpose of the program is to provide scholarships for surviving dependents of California residents killed as a result of injuries sustained during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Existing law further provides that these scholarships shall be used to defray the costs incurred by participants in the program at institutions of higher education.

Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to identify all persons who are eligible for scholarships under the program and to notify them of their eligibility no later than July 1, 2003. Existing law requires eligible persons to inform the board in a timely manner of their decision on whether to participate in the program and requires eligible persons who are to become participants in the program to execute agreements no later than July 1, 2005.

This bill would instead require the board to identify all persons who are eligible for scholarships under the program and to notify them of their eligibility no later than July 1, 2014. The bill would also require that eligible persons who are to become participants in the program execute participation agreements no later than July 1, 2015.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: 23. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

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

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SECTION 1.  

Section 70010.5 of the Education Code is
2amended to read:

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70010.5.  

(a) The California Victim Compensation and
4Government Claims Board shall identify all persons who are
5eligible for scholarships under the program. The California Victim
6Compensation and Government Claims Board shall notify these
7persons or, in the case of minors, the parents or guardians of these
8persons, of their eligibility for scholarships under the program.
9This notification shall be inbegin delete writing,end deletebegin insert writingend insert and shall be received
10by all of the appropriate persons no later than July 1, 2014.

11(b) Eligible persons, or in the case of minors, the parents or
12guardians of these persons, shall inform the board of their decision
13on whether to participate in the program in a timely manner.
14Eligible persons, or in the case of minors, the parents or guardians
15of these persons, who are to become participants in the program
16shall execute agreements pursuant to Section 70011 no later than
17July 1, 2015.

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SEC. 2.  

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
19immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
20the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
21immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

22Because many eligible persons are not currently receiving
23scholarships under the program, and because of the higher
24education expenses, prospective or ongoing, of the dependents of
25California residents who were killed as a result of injuries sustained
P3    1during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it is necessary
2that this act take effect immediately.



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