BILL NUMBER: AB 421	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Calderon

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2015

   An act to amend Section 87356 of, and to add Section 72620.1 to,
the Education Code, relating to community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 421, as introduced, Calderon. Community colleges: veterans
counselor.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary
education in this state. Existing law establishes community college
districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to operate
campuses and provide instruction to students. Existing law authorizes
the governing board of a community college district to provide a
counseling program. Existing law requires the Board of Governors of
the California Community Colleges to adopt regulations to establish
and maintain minimum qualifications for the hiring of certain
community college faculty and staff members.
   This bill would require the governing board of a community college
district to provide in each college within the district a veterans
counselor. The bill would also require the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges to adopt regulations to establish and
maintain minimum qualifications for veterans counselors. By requiring
community colleges to have a veterans counselor, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 72620.1 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   72620.1.   The governing board of a community college district
shall provide in each college within the district a veterans
counselor.
  SEC. 2.  Section 87356 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   87356.  (a) The board of governors shall adopt regulations to
establish and maintain the minimum qualifications for service as a
faculty member teaching credit instruction, a faculty member teaching
noncredit instruction, a librarian, a counselor,  a veterans
counselor,  an educational administrator, an extended
opportunity programs and services worker, a disabled students
programs and services worker, an apprenticeship instructor, and a
supervisor of health.
   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that this section does not
create a state-mandated local program because compensation of faculty
will continue to be determined through the collective bargaining
process or meet and confer sessions.
  SEC. 3.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.