BILL NUMBER: AB 490	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Alejo and Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2015

   An act to amend Section 69642 of the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 490, as introduced, Alejo. Community College Extended
Opportunity Programs and Services.
   Existing law establishes the Community College Extended
Opportunity Programs and Services to encourage local community
colleges to establish and implement programs directed to identifying
those students affected by language, social, and economic handicaps,
and to assist those students to achieve their educational objectives
and goals, including, but not limited to, obtaining job skills,
occupational certificates, or associate degrees, and transferring to
4-year institutions. Existing law defines extended opportunity
services for these purposes.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that definition.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 69642 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   69642.  Definitions:
   (a)  "Extended opportunity program" means a special program or
method of instruction designed to facilitate the language,
educational, or social development of a student and increase his or
her potential for success in the college.
   (b) "Extended opportunity services" means a program of assistance
designed to aid  students   a student  with
socioeconomic handicaps to permit  them   him
or her  to enroll in and participate in the educational
activities of the college, and to progress toward completing 
their   his or her  educational goals and
objectives, including, but not limited to, graduation from college.