AB 1961, as amended, Baker. Student financial aid: Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program: private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions.
Existing law, known as the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A and B entitlement awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards, the Cal Grant C awards, and the Cal Grant T awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions.
Existing law establishes the maximum tuition award amount for each Cal Grant A and B award for new recipient students attending private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions at $9,084 for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 award years and $8,056 for the 2017-18 award year and each award year thereafter. Existing law also establishes these amounts as the maximum tuition award amounts for new recipients attending private for-profit postsecondary educational institutions that are accredited, as specified.
This bill would instead increase the maximum tuition award amount for Cal Grant A and B awards for new recipients at private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions to no less than $10,000 for the 2017-18 award year and each award year thereafter. For these award years, the maximum tuition award amounts would remain at $8,056 for new recipients attending accredited private for-profit postsecondary educational institutions as referred to above.begin insert The bill would impose requirements on private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions to provide specified data to a specified association as a condition for the funding of Cal Grant awards to their students and would require the association to report on that information to the Legislature, the Governor, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 69432 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
(a) Cal Grant Program awards shall be known as “Cal
4Grant A Entitlement Awards,” “Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards,”
5“California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards,”
6“Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards,” “Cal Grant C Awards,”
7and “Cal Grant T Awards.”
8(b) Maximum award amounts for students at independent
9institutions and for Cal Grant C and T awards shall be identified
10in the annual Budget Act. Maximum award amounts for Cal Grant
11A and B awards for students attending public institutions shall be
12referenced in the annual Budget Act.
13(c) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), and subdivision (c) of
14Section
66021.2, commencing with the 2013-14 award year, the
15 maximum tuition award amounts for Cal Grant A and B awards
16for students attending private for-profit and nonprofit
17postsecondary educational institutions shall be as follows:
18(A) Four thousand dollars ($4,000) for new recipients attending
19private for-profit postsecondary educational institutions.
P3 1(B) For the 2015-16 and 2016-17 award years, nine thousand
2eighty-four dollars ($9,084) for new recipients attending private
3nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions. For the 2017-18
4award year and each award year thereafter, no less than ten
5thousand dollarsbegin delete ($10,000)end deletebegin insert ($10,000), as
determined in the annual
6Budget Act,end insert for new recipients attending private nonprofit
7postsecondary educational institutions.
8(2) The renewal award amount for a student whose initial award
9is subject to a maximum award amount specified in this subdivision
10shall be calculated pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of
11Section 69433.
12(3) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), for the
132017-18 award year and each award year thereafter, the maximum
14tuition award amounts for new recipients attending private
15for-profit postsecondary educational institutions that are accredited
16by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges as of July 1,
172012, shall
be eight thousand fifty-six dollars ($8,056).
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(d) As a condition for the funding of Cal Grant awards to its
19students, a private nonprofit postsecondary educational institution
20shall submit performance metrics to the Association of Independent
21California Colleges and Universities. The association, in
22collaboration with the public segments of higher education, shall
23determine the form and content of these metrics, to ensure data
24are defined, collected, and reported in a consistent and comparable
25manner, and to ensure data integrity. The association shall provide
26that information in a cumulative report generated by the
27association to the Legislature, the Governor, the Department of
28Finance, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office on or before March
2915, 2017, and on or before March 15 of each year thereafter. The
30report shall be submitted to
the Legislature in compliance with
31Section 9795 of the Government Code and shall include all of the
32following data with respect to each participating private nonprofit
33postsecondary educational institution:
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(1) The number of undergraduate students enrolled in that
35institution.
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(2) The percentage of undergraduate students of that institution
37who are California residents.
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(3) The number of graduate students enrolled in that institution.
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(4) The number of transfer students from the California
40Community Colleges enrolled in that institution.
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(5) The percentage of undergraduate students of that institution
2who are transfer students from the California Community Colleges.
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(6) The number of Pell Grant recipients enrolled in that
4institution.
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(7) The percentage of undergraduate students of that institution
6who are Pell Grant recipients.
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(8) The number of Cal Grant recipients enrolled in that
8institution. With respect to those Cal Grant recipients, both of the
9following shall be included:
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(A) Their ethnic composition, expressed in percentages.
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(B) The median amount of institutional aid provided to them.
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(9) The percentage of undergraduate students of that institution
13who are Cal Grant recipients.
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(10) The four- and six-year graduation
rates for freshman
15entrants of that institution disaggregated by both of the following:
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(A) Pell Grant recipients.
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(B) Cal Grant recipients.
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(11) The two- and three-year graduation rates for transfer
19students from the California Community Colleges disaggregated
20by both of the following:
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(A) Pell Grant recipients.
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(B) Cal Grant recipients.
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(12) The number of degrees awarded annually by the institution
24in total and in each of the following categories:
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(A) Undergraduate students who first enrolled in the institution
26as freshmen.
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(B) Undergraduate students who first enrolled in the institution
28as transfer students.
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(C) Graduate students.
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(D) Pell Grant recipients.
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(E) The number of degrees or credentials awarded in
32health-related fields, teacher preparation, and the fields of science,
33technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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(e) The collection, reporting, and housing of data for the report
35prepared pursuant to subdivision (d) shall be conducted both in
36a manner that ensures data integrity and security and that is in
37conformance with any federal and state laws on the confidentiality
38of student information.
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