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                                   THIRD READING 


          Bill No:  AB 2069
          Author:   Medina (D) 
          Amended:  8/2/16 in Senate
          Vote:     21 

           SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE:  9-0, 6/15/16
           AYES:  Liu, Block, Hancock, Huff, Leyva, Mendoza, Monning, Pan,  
            Vidak

           ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE:  Senate Rule 28.8

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  77-0, 6/1/16 - See last page for vote

           SUBJECT:   Part-time faculty office hours


          SOURCE:    Author

          DIGEST:   This bill requires each community college district to  
          report the total part-time faculty office hours paid divided by  
          the total part-time faculty office hours taught and to post this  
          information on its Internet Web site.


          ANALYSIS:     Existing law establishes the Community College  
          Part-time Faculty Office Hours Program, contingent upon annual  
          Budget Act funding, for the purpose of providing community  
          college students with access to academic advice and assistance  
          and to encourage districts to provide opportunities to  
          compensate those who old office hours related to their teaching  
          load. The governing board of each district that establishes such  
          a program is required to negotiate with the exclusive bargaining  
          representative (or, if none exists, with the faculty) to  








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          establish the program. Participating districts are required to  
          inform the Chancellor's office of the total costs of part-time  
          faculty office hours compensation paid and the Chancellors  
          office is required to apportion up to 50% of these costs, to be  
          distributed proportionally based upon each districts' total cost  
          and the total amount provided in the annual Budget Act.    
          (Education Code § 87880-87885)


          This bill:


          1)Requires that each community college district report, by  
            August 15 of each year, the total part-time faculty office  
            hours paid divided by the total part-time faculty hours taught  
            during the prior fiscal year.


          2)Requires that each community college district prominently post  
            this information on its Internet Web site.


          Comments


          Part-time Faculty Office Hours.   In 1997, the Legislature  
          created the Community College Part-Time Faculty Office Hours  
          Program to improve student access to instructors by establishing  
          a fund to reimburse districts 50% of their costs if they  
          negotiated some level of office hour compensation for their  
          part-time faculty members. Funding for this program is currently  
          disbursed on a reimbursement basis to participating community  
          college districts pursuant to Education Code Section 87885.  


          The Program had been funded at a level of about $2 million per  
          year until 2001-02, when it reached its peak of funding at $7.1  
          million.  During the recession (2009-2015) this funding was  
          reduced to about $3.5 million per year. Both the Senate and the  
          Assembly have proposed restoral of funding for the Program in  
          the annual Budget Act for the last two years.  Both houses have  
          again included an increase to the Part-Time Faculty Office Hours  
          Program in their 2016-17 Budget bills and it appears likely that  
          total funding for the Program will be restored to the 2008-09  







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          pre-recession level of $7.1 million.




          FISCAL EFFECT:   Appropriation:    No          Fiscal  
          Com.:YesLocal:   Yes


          SUPPORT:   (Verified8/1/16)


          None received


          OPPOSITION:   (Verified8/1/16)


          None received


          ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  77-0, 6/1/16
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker,  
            Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke,  
            Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley,  
            Cooper, Dababneh, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Gallagher,  
            Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez,  
            Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Roger Hernández,  
            Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine,  
            Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty,  
            Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell,  
            Olsen, Patterson, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,  
            Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner,  
            Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Rendon
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Dahle, Beth Gaines, Harper

          Prepared by:Kathleen Chavira / ED. / (916) 651-4105
          8/3/16 19:26:05


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