BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
Senator Mark Leno, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: AB 1624 Hearing Date: August 11,
2016
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|Author: |Committee on Budget |
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|Version: |August 9, 2016 As amended |
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|Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant|Elisa Wynne |
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Subject: Education
Summary: This bill provides statutory changes and clean-up necessary to
enact education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2016.
Background and Proposed Law: AB 1624 makes statutory changes
necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2016. These changes
provide clarification and technical corrections to trailer bills
enacted in June 2016.
K-12 Education:
1.Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, when
adopting criteria for grant applications to the California
Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing Program, to
include a requirement that applicants specify their plans to
meet the demand for bilingual cross-cultural teachers in
addition the existing requirement for the applicant to address
teacher shortage areas. The California Classified School
Employee Teacher Credentialing Program will provide grants to
local educational agencies to support classified staff in
pursuing a teaching credential.
2.Provides $300,000, of the total appropriation of $18 million
one-time Proposition 98 General Fund provided as part of the
2016 budget, pursuant to Senate Bill 828 (Committee on
Budget), Chapter 29, Statutes of 2016, may be used for a local
educational agency to conduct regional meetings, training, and
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support for grantees who receive funds for dropout and truancy
prevention programs pursuant to pending legislation, AB 1014
(Thurmond), currently in Senate Appropriations and SB 527
(Liu), currently in Assembly Appropriations. These funds shall
be available for expenditure no sooner than 30 days after the
expenditure plan is provided to the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee.
3.Amends the date by which the California Collaborative for
Educational Excellence (CCEE) must submit a plan for
implementation of a pilot program from August to October 15,
2016, or within 10 days of the next regularly scheduled CCEE
board meeting following the implementation of this statute.
Requires the plan for the pilot program and for professional
development and expenditure of funds pursuant to the plans to
be subject to Department of Finance approval.
Higher Education:
4.Extends the sunset date and Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO)
reporting date by one year on a program that allows the
University of California and the California Community Colleges
to use the best value procurement method when purchasing goods
and materials. An LAO report analyzing the effectiveness of
these programs will be due on February 1, 2018, instead of
2017, and the program will sunset on January 1, 2019, instead
of 2018. This change is proposed to allow the LAO to address
a requirement in the 2016 Budget Act requiring an extensive
review of state financial aid programs this fall, before
working on the review of the best value program.
5.Deletes redundant language included in AB 1602 (Committee on
Budget) Chapter 24, Statutes of 2016, a higher education
trailer bill, regarding reporting requirements for funding
distributed to the California State Library. This is a
technical change.
Other:
6.Authorizes the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to
implement the California Initiative to Advance Precision
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Medicine without regulatory action.
Fiscal
Effect: The funding related to the changes in this bill is contained
in the 2016 budget.
Support: None on file.
Opposed: None on file.
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