BILL NUMBER: AB 1846	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lopez

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2016

   An act relating to adult education, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1846, as introduced, Lopez. Adult education consortium program.

   Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges and the State Department of Education, pursuant to funding
made available in the annual Budget Act, to jointly provide 2-year
planning and implementation grants to regional consortia of community
college districts and school districts for developing regional plans
to better serve the educational needs of adults. Existing law
requires the grant funds provided under this program to be used by
each regional consortium to create and implement a plan to better
provide adults in its region with certain skills, classes, courses,
and programs, including, among other things, programs for
apprentices.
   This bill would appropriate $250,000,000 every fiscal year from
the General Fund to the California Community Colleges and the State
Department of Education for ongoing support of the adult education
consortium program.
   The funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the
minimum funding requirements for school districts and community
college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The sum of two hundred fifty million dollars
($250,000,000) is appropriated every fiscal year from the General
Fund to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the
State Department of Education for ongoing support of the adult
education consortium program implemented pursuant to Section 84830 of
the Education Code.