BILL NUMBER: AB 907	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Burke

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to relating to career technical education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 907, as introduced, Burke. Career training: adult students.
   Existing law authorizes various career technical education
programs, including regional occupational centers and programs,
specialized secondary programs, partnership academies, and
agricultural career technical education programs.
   This bill would make legislative findings regarding education for
adult students, and would state the Legislature's support for adult
students' access to career training resources, including student
financial aid.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Career training for adults is an important part of workforce
and economic development in California.
   (b) Many of California's neediest adult students require financial
aid to support their career training.
   (c) Historically, those adult students have had access to federal
financial aid under Title IV of the federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.).
   (d) Recent revisions in federal regulations governing Title IV of
the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec.
6301 et seq.) have eliminated the eligibility for financial aid for
adult students in many of California's career training programs
operated by local educational agencies, even though adults in those
programs have been historically eligible.
   (e) The Legislature supports:
   (1) Adult students' access to career training programs that will
improve or expand their job skills and employability.
   (2) Adult students' access to federal financial aid that may be
used for career training programs and services.
   (3) Providers of career training programs for adult students, as
those providers work to satisfy federal requirements necessary to
establish federal financial aid eligibility for those adult students.