BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 968 (Williams) - Postsecondary education: transcripts.
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|Version: February 26, 2015 |Policy Vote: ED. 9 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: Yes |
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|Hearing Date: August 17, 2015 |Consultant: Jillian Kissee |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: This bill requires the governing boards of the state's
public and private postsecondary education institutions to
indicate that a student has been suspended or expelled from the
institution on the student's transcript for the time period of
the student's ineligibility to enroll.
Fiscal
Impact:
Costs likely ranging from about $200,000 to $300,000 for
colleges to develop and implement the required notation on
student transcripts. These costs could be required to be
reimbursed by the state if the Commission on State Mandates
determines this bill to impose a state mandate. If determined
a mandate, it could create pressure to increase the community
college mandate block grant to reflect the new mandate. See
staff comments. (Proposition 98)
The University of California (UC) and the California State
University (CSU) do not anticipate additional costs associated
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with this bill.
Background: Existing law requires the UC Regents, the CSU Trustees, and
the governing board of every community college district to adopt
specific rules governing student behavior and applicable
penalties for violations of the rules; as well as the adoption
of procedures by which students are informed of such rules and
applicable penalties. (Education Code § 66300)
Current law provides that any community college district that
receives an application for admission from an individual who has
been expelled from, or who is undergoing expulsion proceedings
in another district for any of a number of specified offenses
may deny, permit, or permit conditionally, the enrollment of the
student. The district must first hold a hearing, as specified,
to determine whether the individual poses a continuing danger to
the district's students and employees. Current law also
requires a formal appeal process be established for any student
denied enrollment under these provisions.
Proposed Law:
This bill requires the governing board of each community
college district, the CSU Trustees, the UC Regents, the
governing body of each independent institution of higher
education, and the governing body of each private postsecondary
educational institution to indicate on a student's transcript
during a student's suspension or expulsion when a student is
ineligible to reenroll, for the duration the student is
ineligible to reenroll.
Related
Legislation: AB 969 (Williams, 2015) expands those expulsion
offenses which a community college district may require a
student seeking admission to disclose to include sexual assault,
domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. It also
provides that a district may require a student previously
expelled for these offenses to inform the district considering
admission of such expulsion. AB 969 is pending in this
committee.
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Staff
Comments: This bill requires the governing board of each
community college district to make specified notations on
student transcripts related to suspension and expulsion. The
California Community College Chancellor's Office indicates that
costs would range between $1,000 and $3,000 for each college to
comply with this requirement. According to the Chancellor's
Office, about 68 colleges use electronic transcripts and would
therefore incur costs towards the low end of the range, while
the others would incur costs up to $3,000 each.
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