BILL NUMBER: SB 681	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 66746 of the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 681, as introduced, Hernandez. Public postsecondary education:
Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act.
   The Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act requires the
California State University to guarantee admission with junior status
to a community college student who meets the requirements for the
associate degree for transfer. A student admitted to the California
State University pursuant to the act is entitled to receive priority
over all other community college transfer students, excluding
community college students who have entered into a transfer agreement
between a community college and the California State University
prior to the fall term of the 2012-13 academic year. The act also
encourages community colleges to facilitate the acceptance of credits
earned at other community colleges toward the associate degree for
transfer.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in the act.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 66746 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   66746.  (a) Commencing with the fall term of the 2011-12 academic
year, a student who earns an associate degree for transfer granted
pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be deemed eligible for transfer
into a California State University baccalaureate program when the
student meets both of the following requirements:
   (1) Completion of 60 semester units or 90 quarter units that are
eligible for transfer to the California State University, including
both of the following:
   (A) The Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
(IGETC) or the California State University General Education-Breadth
Requirements.
   (B) A minimum of 18 semester units or 27 quarter units in a major
or area of emphasis, as determined by the community college district.

   (2)  Obtainment   Attainment  of a
minimum grade point average of 2.0.
   (b) (1) As a condition of receipt of state apportionment funds, a
community college district shall develop and grant associate degrees
for transfer that meet the requirements of subdivision (a). A
community college district shall not impose any requirements in
addition to the requirements of this section, including any local
college or district requirements, for a student to be eligible for
the associate degree for transfer and subsequent admission to the
California State University pursuant to Section 66747.
   (2) The condition of receipt of state apportionment funding
contained in paragraph (1) shall become inoperative if, by December
31, 2010, each of the state's 72 community college districts has
submitted to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, for
transmission to the Director of Finance, signed certification
waiving, as a local agency request within the meaning of paragraph
(1) of subdivision (a) of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution, any claim of reimbursement related to the
implementation of this article.
   (c) A community college district is encouraged to consider the
local articulation agreements and other work between the respective
faculties from the affected community college and California State
University campuses in implementing the requirements of this section.

   (d) Community colleges are encouraged to facilitate the acceptance
of credits earned at other community colleges toward the associate
degree for transfer pursuant to this section.
   (e) This section shall not preclude students who are assessed
below collegiate level from acquiring remedial noncollegiate level
coursework in preparation for obtaining the associate degree.
Remedial noncollegiate level coursework shall not be counted as part
of the transferable units required pursuant to paragraph (1) of
subdivision (a).