BILL NUMBER: SB 1022 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 22, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Senator Huff
( Coauthor: Senator Hancock
)
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
An act to add Section 66014.3 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1022, as amended, Huff. Public postsecondary education: labor
market outcome information.
Existing law establishes the California State University and the
University of California as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary
education in this state. Instruction is provided to students at the
25 institutions constituting the California State University and the
10 institutions constituting the University of California.
This bill would require the California State University, and
request the University of California, to publicly provide labor
market prematriculation and outcome information relating
to their graduates. The information required by the bill would
include, but not necessarily be limited to, salary data and
the distribution of employers , classified by industry. The
bill would specify requirements for presentation of this data,
including the use of easily understood labor market measures,
aggregation of the data to the systemwide level and
disaggregation to the campus level and by particular areas
of study, time frames timeframes before and
after graduation for the presentation of the data in each labor
market prematriculation and outcome category, and
adherence to pertinent state and federal privacy laws.
The bill would require that this information be made publicly
available through publication on the Internet Web sites of the
respective segments no later than June 1, 2016, and updated no later
than June 1 of each year thereafter.
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. It is the intent of the Legislature
that the impact of public postsecondary education on the employment
and earnings of students be made publicly available, to the extent
possible, to students and families consistently across the segments
of public postsecondary education.
SECTION 1. SEC. 2. Section 66014.3
is added to the Education Code, to read:
66014.3. (a) The California State University shall, and the
University of California is requested to, publicly provide labor
market prematriculation and outcome information relating
to their graduates. This information shall include, but not
necessarily be limited to, salary data and the distribution
of employers , classified by industry.
(b) The information required by this section shall be provided
using data including, but not necessarily limited to, information
provided by the Employment Development Department pursuant to Section
1095 of the Unemployment Insurance Code and the segments' own
databases. The information shall be presented in accordance with all
of the following requirements:
(1) The data shall be presented in terms of easily understood
labor market measures, such as median annual wage.
(2) The data shall be aggregated to the systemwide level
as well as disaggregated to the campus level and by
particular areas of study.
(3) Labor market outcome data for each category shall, at a
minimum, provide data relating to graduates one or two years, and
five years, after their graduation , and
prematriculation labor market data for graduates six years before the
receipt of their degrees. The Legislature encourages the California
State University and the University of California to additionally
provide labor market outcome data for periods longer than five years
after graduation .
(4) In the collection and publication of data pursuant to this
section, the segments shall adhere to all pertinent state and federal
privacy laws.
(c) The information required by this section shall be made
publicly available through publication on the Internet Web sites of
the respective segments no later than June 1, 2016, and shall be
updated no later than June 1 of each year thereafter.