Amended in Assembly June 16, 2014

Amended in Senate May 27, 2014

Amended in Senate April 22, 2014

Senate BillNo. 1022


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,begin insert and the percentage distribution of graduates,end insert 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 by particular areas of study, 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, and updated no later than June 1 of each year.

Vote: majority. 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.  

It is the intent of the Legislature that the impact
2of public postsecondary education on the employment and earnings
3of students be made publicly available, to the extent possible, to
4students and families consistently across the segments of public
5postsecondary education.

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SEC. 2.  

Section 66014.3 is added to the Education Code, to
7read:

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66014.3.  

(a) The California State University shall, and the
9University of California is requested to, publicly provide labor
10market prematriculation and outcome information relating to their
11graduates. This information shall include, but not necessarily be
12limited to, salary data,begin insert and the percentage distribution of graduates,end insert
13 classified by industry.

14(b) The information required by this section shall be provided
15using data including, but not necessarily limited to, information
16provided by the Employment Development Department pursuant
17to Section 1095 of the Unemployment Insurance Code and the
18segments’ own databases. The information shall be presented in
19accordance with all of the following requirements:

20(1) The data shall be presented in terms of easily understood
21labor market measures, such as median annual wage.

22(2) The data shall be aggregated to the systemwide level and
23by particular areas of study.

24(3) Labor market outcome data for each category shall, at a
25minimum, provide data relating to graduates one or two years, and
26five years, after their graduation, and prematriculation labor market
27data for graduates six years before the receipt of their degrees. The
28Legislature encourages the California State University and the
29University of California to additionally provide labor market
30outcome data for periods longer than five years after graduation.

P3    1(4) In the collection and publication of data pursuant to this
2section, the segments shall adhere to all pertinent state and federal
3privacy laws.

4(c) The information required by this section shall be made
5publicly available through publication on the Internet Web sites
6of the respective segments, and shall be updated no later than June
71 of each year.



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