BILL NUMBER: SB 66	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leyva

                        JANUARY 7, 2015

   An act to repeal and add Section 88540 of the Education Code,
relating to career technical education, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 66, as introduced, Leyva. Career Technical Education Pathways
Program.
   Existing law, until June 30, 2015, establishes the Career
Technical Education Pathways Program, which requires the Chancellor
of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to assist economic and workforce regional development
centers and consortia, community colleges, middle schools, high
schools, and regional occupational centers and programs to improve
linkages and career technical education pathways between high schools
and community colleges, as specified.
   This bill would extend the operation of the program until July 1,
2018.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 88540 of the Education Code is repealed.

   88540.  This part shall remain in effect only until June 30, 2015,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that is enacted before June 30, 2015, deletes or extends that date.

  SEC. 2.  Section 88540 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   88540.  This part shall become inoperative on July 1, 2018, and,
as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2019, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to continue these career technical education programs
uninterrupted and with the same level of funding, it is necessary for
this act to take effect immediately.
   This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are: