BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB
176 (Bonta)
As Amended May 28, 2015
Majority vote
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|Committee |Votes |Ayes |Noes |
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|Higher |12-1 |Medina, Baker, Bloom, |Harper |
|Education | |Chávez, Irwin, | |
| | |Jones-Sawyer, Levine, | |
| | |Linder, Low, | |
| | |Santiago, Weber, | |
| | |Williams | |
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|----------------+------+----------------------+--------------------|
|Health |18-0 |Bonta, Maienschein, | |
| | |Bonilla, Burke, | |
| | |Chávez, Chiu, Gomez, | |
| | |Gonzalez, Roger | |
| | |Hernández, Lackey, | |
| | |Nazarian, Patterson, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Santiago, | |
| | |Steinorth, Thurmond, | |
| | |Waldron, Wood | |
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|----------------+------+----------------------+--------------------|
|Appropriations |17-0 |Gomez, Bigelow, | |
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| | |Bonta, Calderon, | |
| | |Chang, Daly, Eggman, | |
| | |Gallagher, | |
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| | |Eduardo Garcia, | |
| | |Gordon, Holden, | |
| | |Jones, Quirk, Rendon, | |
| | |Wagner, Weber, Wood | |
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SUMMARY: Places specified requirements regarding the collection
of demographic data, by the state's public segments of
postsecondary education and by state health-related departments,
pertaining to tabulation categories of Native Hawaiian (NH),
Asian, and Pacific Islander (API) groups. Specifically, this
bill:
1)Requires the Board of Governors (BOG) of the California
Community Colleges (CCC) and the Trustees of the California
State University (CSU), and requests the Regents of the
University of California (UC), when collecting demographic data
on students for a report that includes student admission,
enrollment, completion, or graduation rates, to use specified
collection and tabulation categories for NH and API groups as
follows:
a) Until the release of the next decennial census, each
entity shall use the categories that the entity used as of
January 1, 2015.
b) Within 18 months after release of the decennial census,
each entity shall use the NH and API categories as reported
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by the United States Census Bureau.
2)Requires CCC, CSU, and UC to collect and publish the above
demographic data on their respective websites by July 1, 2016,
to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act,
and to observe criteria for ensuring statistical significance of
data collected and published.
3)Specifies that the UC does not need to include the demographic
data of graduate or professional schools in the report, as
specified.
4)Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the
Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), when collecting
patient demographic data for reports, on or after July 1, 2016,
on level of health care coverage, amount of health care
coverage, rates for major diseases, leading causes of death per
demographic, subcategories for leading causes of death in
California overall, pregnancy rates, and housing numbers, to use
the following separate collection categories and tabulations, in
addition to the categories required by existing law:
a) Major Asian groups, including, but not limited to,
Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri
Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai; and,
b) Major Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander groups,
including, but not limited to, Fijian and Tongan.
5)Requires DHCS and DMHC to publish the above data on their
website by July 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, and to update
their data collection to include any additional NH and API
groups as reported by the United States Census Bureau within 18
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months after a decennial census is released to the public.
EXISTING LAW: Requires state agencies, boards, and commissions
that directly or by contract collect demographic data as to the
ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate
collection categories and tabulations for each major API group,
including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino,
Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Hawaiian,
Guamanian, and Samoan (Government Code Section 8310.5).
FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee:
1)UC and CSU: Minor and absorbable costs.
2)CCC: Districts currently report on about one-third of the
Census subgroups. Given that this measure would not require
reporting for all subgroups until around 2023, districts should
be able to encompass this change within the course of updating
their current practices, costs should not be significant.
3)DHCS: Non-responsive.
4)DMHC: No additional costs, as recently enacted legislation
already will require the department to meet the requirements of
this measure.
COMMENTS: Background. According to the California Commission on
Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs' Issue Paper on
September 5, 2014, data disaggregation is imperative for
uncovering economic, educational, and social disparities inherent
not only in API American communities, but in all ethnic
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populations. The commission finds that the need to disaggregate
data is often exemplified by the needs of Southeast Asian American
students; often categorized as "Asian," their "lower academic
achievement rates are overshadowed by the stereotype that all
Asian students excel in academics."
Purpose of the bill. According to the author's office, "By
relying heavily on aggregate data of the API community, the State
of California fails to recognize that different API ethnic
subpopulations have diverse social and economic conditions." The
author contends that if the needs of each of the API "subgroups"
are not addressed properly, California will run the risk of lower
educational outcomes and greater healthcare costs for our future
generations. Data disaggregation is imperative for uncovering
social, economic and educational disparities within the greater
Asian population.
Analysis Prepared by:
Jeanice Warden / HIGHER ED. / (916) 319-3960 FN:
0000752