BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
Senator Mark Leno, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: AB 1602 Hearing Date: June 15,
2016
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|Author: |Committee on Budget |
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|Version: |June 13, 2016 As amended |
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|Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant|Anita Lee |
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Subject: Education
Summary: This bill makes various statutory changes necessary to
implement the postsecondary education-related provisions of the
Budget Act of 2016.
Proposed
Law:
1) California Library Services Act. Updates and modernizes
the California Library Services Act to reflect local
libraries' increasing use of and sharing of digital
materials, and eliminates references to a reimbursement
program among libraries that is no longer utilized.
Provides $3 million one-time General Fund to the State
Library for the California Library Services Act, and
requires the State Library to report on the use of
additional funds.
2) Compton Community College. Adjusts the interest rate on
three Compton Community College District emergency
apportionments to 2.307 percent, which is reflective of the
rate recently provided to other K-12 agencies.
3) Innovation Awards. Implements the Innovation Awards for
2016-17, which will provide grants to community college
programs that reduce students' time to degree or total cost
of attendance in three categories: programs that redesign
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curriculum and instruction, such as implementation of
three-year bachelor's degrees; programs that allow students
to make progress toward degrees by allowing credit based on
demonstration of knowledge and competencies, such as
military training or prior experiences; and, programs that
make financial aid more accessible or reduce other student
costs. Grants will be awarded by a committee, which will
give preference to programs that improve outcomes for
students from groups that are underrepresented in higher
education.
4) Middle Class Scholarship. Adjusts the Middle Class
Scholarship program statutory appropriation in 2016-17 and
beyond with a $42 million General Fund decrease. Funds
available in 2016-17 will be $74 million; with the
allocation growing to $117 million in 2017-18 and beyond.
5) Community College Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant
Program. Establishes the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant
Program, which provides $5 million one-time Proposition 98
General Fund to community colleges that implement these
programs. Zero-textbook-cost degrees are associate degrees
or career technical education certificates earned by
completing courses that eliminate conventional textbook
costs by using alternative instructional materials, such as
open educational resources. This bill provides a maximum
grant of $200,000 to community college districts for each
degree developed or implemented that eliminates textbook
costs for students.
6) San Francisco Community College District. Provides San
Francisco City College with five years of restoration
enrollment by authorizing the college ability to earn back
enrollment funding for five years, beginning in 2017-18, if
the college exceeds the systemwide enrollment target during
this period.
7) Adult Education Technical Assistance. Provides $5
million Proposition 98 General Fund to support technical
assistance to adult education regional consortia. Funding
will allow a chosen community college district or local
education agency to provide statewide leadership activities
for consortia, including disseminating best practices,
providing professional development and evaluating the adult
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education program.
8) Adult Education. Requires reporting from the Chancellor
of the Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction no later than August 1, 2017 on options for
integrating the adult education assessments into the common
assessment system developed by the community colleges.
Extends the deadline for annual reporting on adult
education outcomes from Sept 30th to a two-part report due
on October 30th and January 1st of each year.
9) Career Technical Education Pathways. Extends the sunset
date for the Career Technical Education Pathways Program
from June 30, 2016, to July 1, 2017.
10) Student Success Basic Skills Program. Creates the
Student Success for Basic Skills program and eliminates the
Basic Skills Initiative. The new program provides
categorical funding to help improve outcomes for students
in pre-collegiate level courses. Funding supports the
implementation of evidence-based practices and will be
distributed, beginning in 2017-18, using a three-part
formula: 50 percent will be based on colleges' ability to
transition students from remedial courses to college-level
English and math courses within one -year or two -years; 25
percent will be based on the percentage of low-income
students at a college; and, 25 percent will be based on the
number of basic skills students enrolled in courses that
use evidence-based practices at a college.
11) Community College Strong Workforce. Establishes
the Strong Workforce Program to expand quality career
technical education and workforce development courses,
pathways, and programs at community colleges. Career
Technical Education Regional Consortia will collaborate
with other public institutions, such local education
agencies, and relevant stakeholders to increase the number
of CTE offerings. Each consortium shall submit a regional
plan by January 31, once every four years, to the
Chancellor's Office, regarding the governance model of the
consortium, analysis of regional labor market needs, wage
data for each industry sector, measurable regional goals
that align with the performance measures of the federal
Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act, among others. Forty
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percent of funds will be distributed to the CTE Regional
Consortia, and 60 percent funds will be distributed
directly to community college districts. In 2016-17, funds
shall be allocated using a three-part formula: one-third
will be based on the local unemployment rate; one-third
will be based on the regions proportion of CTE
full-time-equivalent students; and, one third will be based
on the projected job openings. Beginning in 2017-18, funds
shall be allocated using a four-part formula: one-third
will be based on the local unemployment rate; one-third
will be based on the regions proportion of CTE
full-time-equivalent students; 17 percent will be based on
the projected job openings; and, 17 percent based on the
proportion of successful workforce outcomes.
12) University of California and California State
University Reports. Requires the University of California
and California State University to provide information in
bi-annual reports to the Legislature and Department of
Finance regarding the costs of educating a student based on
a cost of instruction model developed by the National
Association of College and University Business Officers.
13) University of California Admission of California
Residents. Specifies that, as a condition of receiving
funds in the 2016 Budget Act, the University of California
approve a plan and timeline, beginning in the 2016-17
academic year, to increase the number of California
resident freshman admits who meet admission requirements at
each campus, including students who are enrolled in high
schools with seventy-five percent or more unduplicated
pupils; and expand services and resources to students who
enroll at UC from these schools.
14) University of California Subject Matter Projects.
Repeals the sunset date for UC Subject Matter Projects,
which is scheduled to sunset on June 30, 2017.
15) Precision Medicine. Establishes until January 1,
2020, the California Initiative to Advance Precision
Medicine in the Office of Planning and Research for the
purpose of developing, implementing, awarding funding to,
and evaluating demonstration projects on precision medicine
in collaboration with public, nonprofit, and private
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entities.
16) California Firearm Violence Research Center.
States legislative intent to establish a center for
research into firearm-related violence at the University of
California. Its research shall include, but not be limited
to, the effectiveness of existing laws and policies
intended to reduce firearm violence, including the criminal
misuse of firearms, and efforts to promote the responsible
ownership and use of firearms.
17) Community College Full-Time Faculty. Amends the
2015 Budget Act to clarify funding provided to increase the
number of full-time faculty at community colleges to be
distributed to all districts, including basic aid
districts.
18) Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure.
Provides $7 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund to
enhance network infrastructure at community colleges.
19) Local Property Tax Revenue. Provides $31.7
million Proposition 98 General Fund to community colleges
to backfill for local property tax revenue that was less
than anticipated in the 2015 Budget Act.
20) Community College Online Education. Provides $20
million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund to expedite
and enhance the development of online courses available
through the online course exchange of the Online Education
Initiative.
21) University of California A-G Courses. Provides $4
million one-time General Fund to the University of
California to develop online classes and curriculum for at
least 45 middle school and high school courses that align
with state Board of Education standards and UC admissions
standards satisfying the "a-g" subject requirements.
22) California State University Graduation Plan.
Provides $35 one-time General Fund to the California State
University to increase graduation rates. Funding is
contingent upon the adoption of a graduation rate
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improvement plan. The plan must specify the timeframe in
which the CSU and each campus will increase the four-year
graduation rate for freshman students and two-year
graduation rate for transfer students above the graduation
rate of students at other postsecondary institutions; and
increase the four-year and two-year graduation rates of
low-income, students from underrepresented minority groups,
and first generation college students. CSU will be required
to report recommendations to the Legislature and the
Director of Finance to improve graduation rates, as
specified in the plan.
Fiscal
Effect: Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local:Yes
Support: None on file
Opposed: None on file
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