BILL NUMBER: SB 518	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 1, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to  amend Section 70103 of   add
Sections 33541.5 and 51220.3 to  the Education Code, relating to
 student financial aid   pupil instruction:
engineering and robotics  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 518, as amended, Wyland.  Student financial aid: State
Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education.  
Pupil instruction: science and mathematics.  
   Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to
12, inclusive, to offer courses in science and mathematics. Existing
law also requires the Instructional Quality Commission to recommend
to the State Board of Education the adoption of minimum standards for
courses of study, and requires public schools to conform to those
minimum standards, when adopted.  
   This bill would require the commission and the state board to
ensure that the science and mathematics curriculum frameworks adopted
in the course of the next submission cycle include the subjects of
engineering and robotics, and, upon the adoption of those curriculum
frameworks, would require instruction in the areas of science and
mathematics to include instruction in engineering and robotics. To
the extent that these requirements would impose new duties on local
educational agencies, the bill would impose 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.  
   Existing law establishes the State Nursing Assumption Program of
Loans for Education, administered by the Student Aid Commission,
whereby eligible postsecondary education students may enter into loan
repayment agreements with the commission, with specified terms, in
exchange for serving as nursing faculty in a registered nursing
program at an accredited California college or university. 

   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in the provision
specifying the terms of the loan assumption agreement under this
program. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program:  no
  yes  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 33541.5 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   33541.5.  The commission and the state board shall ensure that the
science and mathematics curriculum frameworks adopted in the course
of the next submission cycle following the date that this section
becomes operative include the subjects of engineering and robotics.

   SEC. 2.    Section 51220.3 is added to the  
Education Code  , to read:  
   51220.3.  Upon the adoption of the science and mathematics
curriculum frameworks that incorporate the requirements specified in
Section 33541.5, instruction in the areas of science and mathematics,
as required pursuant to subdivisions (e) and (f) of Section 51220,
shall include instruction in engineering and robotics. 
   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.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 70103 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
   70103.  The terms of the loan assumptions granted under this
article shall be as follows, subject to the specific terms of each
loan assumption agreement:
   (a) After a program participant has completed one academic year,
or the equivalent, of full-time teaching nursing studies at one or
more regionally accredited, eligible California colleges or
universities, pursuant to Section 70102, the commission shall assume
up to eight thousand three hundred thirty-three dollars ($8,333) of
the outstanding liability of the participant under one or more of the
designated loan programs.
   (b) After the program participant has completed two consecutive
academic years, or the equivalent, of full-time teaching at one or
more regionally accredited California colleges or universities,
pursuant to Section 70102, the commission shall assume up to an
additional eight thousand three hundred thirty-three dollars ($8,333)
of the outstanding liability of the participant under one or more of
the designated loan programs, for a total loan assumption of up to
sixteen thousand six hundred sixty-six dollars ($16,666).
   (c) After a program participant has completed three consecutive
academic years, or the equivalent of full-time teaching, at one or
more regionally accredited California colleges or universities,
pursuant to Section 70102, the commission shall assume up to an
additional eight thousand three hundred thirty-four dollars ($8,334)
of the outstanding liability of the participant under one or more of
the designated loan programs, for a total loan assumption of up to
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).
   (d) The commission may assume liability for loans received by the
program participant to pay the costs of obtaining the program
participant's undergraduate and graduate degrees.
   (e) The term of the loan assumption agreement shall be not more
than 10 years from the date on which the agreement was executed by
the program participant and the commission.