AB 393, as amended, Roger Hernández. Veteran Resource Centers Grant Program.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the board of governors to appoint a chief executive officer, to be known as the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
This bill would establish the Veteran Resource Centers Grant Program, which would authorize the governing board of a community college districtbegin delete that has or intends to establish veteran resource centers on campuses within the community college districtend deletebegin insert and a community college campus at which a veterans resource center has been or is intended to be establishedend insert tobegin insert
jointlyend insert apply to the chancellor for a grant for purposes of providing resources to veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States enrolled atbegin delete those campuses.end deletebegin insert the campus.end insert The bill would establish the Veteran Resource Centers Grant Fund in the State Treasury. The bill would allocate moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, to the chancellor for, among other things, administration of the program and distribution of awards to recipient community college districts.begin insert The bill would also require the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to submit a report to the Legislature on the progress of the program by May 31, 2018.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
The Legislature finds and declares the following:
2(a) More thanbegin delete 44,000end deletebegin insert 60,000end insert veterans and active duty service
3members enrolled at campuses of the California Community
4Colleges in thebegin delete 2012-13end deletebegin insert 2013-14end insert academic year.
5(b) Education is a tool for community college students to achieve
6economic
success.
7(c) Veterans face unique challenges in achieving professional
8success, including posttraumatic stress disorder and assimilation
9to civilian life during and after serving on active duty.
10(d) The intent of the Veteran Resource Centers Grant Program
11is to help veterans and active duty service members enrolled at
12campuses of the California Community Colleges achieve academic
13and professional success.
Part 52.7 (commencing with Section 88750) is added
15to Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read:
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This part shall be known, and may be cited as, the
23Veteran Resource Centers Grant Program.
The Veteran Resource Centers Grant Fund is hereby
25established in the State Treasury. Moneys in the fund, upon
26appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, shall
27be allocated to the chancellor for the implementation and
28administration of this part.
begin deleteThe end deletebegin insertA end insertgoverning board of a community college district
30begin delete thatend deletebegin insert and a community college campus at which a veterans resource
31centerend insert hasbegin insert beenend insert orbegin delete intends to establish veteran resource centers on begin insert
is intended to be
32campuses within the community college districtend delete
P3 1establishedend insert maybegin insert jointlyend insert apply to the chancellor for a grant for
2purposes of providing resources to veterans and active duty
3members of the Armed Forces of the United States enrolled at
4begin delete those campusesend deletebegin insert the campusend insert to help them succeed academically.
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insertThe chancellor shall do the following:
37 6(a)
end delete
7begin insert(1)end insert Administer the program and distribute awards to recipient
8community collegebegin delete districts.end deletebegin insert
districts and campuses.end insert
P3 1 9(b)
end delete
10begin insert(2)end insert Develop application criteria, administrative guidelines, and
11other requirements, by May 26, 2016, through a stakeholder process
12and public meetings, for purposes of administering the program.
13Those requirements may include the chancellor awarding funding
14priority to community college districtbegin insert and campusend insert applicants that
15commit to contributing an amount of funds in addition to the grant
16begin delete for purposes of developing or enhancingend deletebegin insert
to develop, enhance, or
17maintain aend insert veteran resourcebegin delete centers on campuses within the begin insert center at a community college campus.end insert
18community college district.end delete
9 19(c) Submit
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20begin insert(b)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertThe Board of Governors of the California Community
21Colleges shall submitend insert a report to the Legislature on the progress
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of the program on or before May 31, 2018.
11 23(d)
end delete
24begin insert(c)end insert (1) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under
25subdivisionbegin delete (c)end deletebegin insert (b)end insert is inoperative on June 1, 2022, pursuant to
26Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
27(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivisionbegin delete (c)end deletebegin insert
(b)end insert shall
28be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government
29Code.
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