BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 176 Page 1 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING AB 176 (Bonta) As Amended May 28, 2015 Majority vote ------------------------------------------------------------------- |Committee |Votes |Ayes |Noes | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------+------+----------------------+--------------------| |Higher |12-1 |Medina, Baker, Bloom, |Harper | |Education | |Chávez, Irwin, | | | | |Jones-Sawyer, Levine, | | | | |Linder, Low, | | | | |Santiago, Weber, | | | | |Williams | | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------+------+----------------------+--------------------| |Health |18-0 |Bonta, Maienschein, | | | | |Bonilla, Burke, | | | | |Chávez, Chiu, Gomez, | | | | |Gonzalez, Roger | | | | |Hernández, Lackey, | | | | |Nazarian, Patterson, | | | | |Rodriguez, Santiago, | | | | |Steinorth, Thurmond, | | | | |Waldron, Wood | | | | | | | |----------------+------+----------------------+--------------------| |Appropriations |17-0 |Gomez, Bigelow, | | AB 176 Page 2 | | |Bonta, Calderon, | | | | |Chang, Daly, Eggman, | | | | |Gallagher, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Eduardo Garcia, | | | | |Gordon, Holden, | | | | |Jones, Quirk, Rendon, | | | | |Wagner, Weber, Wood | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 AB 176 Page 3 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 AB 176 Page 4 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 AB 176 Page 5 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