BILL NUMBER: AB 1846	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lopez
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Chávez   and Eduardo Garcia   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2016

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



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1846, as amended, 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. 
   This bill would also declare the intent of the Legislature to add
this appropriation to the $500,000,000 appropriated annually in
recent state budgets for the adult education block grant program for
a total of $750,000,000 annually, and would make certain findings and
declarations relating to adult education funding. 
   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   (a)    
The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:  
   (1) According to the Regional Planning Report of 2015 authored by
the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the
Superintendent, between the years of 2008 and 2013 an estimated 65
adult schools across California were closed.  
   (2) Increasing funding for the adult education consortium program
to seven hundred fifty million dollars ($750,000,000) would restore
adult education funding to its 2008 level.  
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to add two hundred fifty
million dollars ($250,000,000) annually to the five hundred million
dollars ($500,000,000) appropriated annually in recent state budgets
for the adult education block grant program established pursuant to
Article 9 (commencing with Section 84900) of Chapter 5 of Part 50 of
Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code for a total provided for
these purposes each year of seven hundred fifty million dollars
($750,000,000). 
    (c)     The  sum of two hundred fifty
million dollars ($250,000,000) is  hereby  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.