BILL NUMBER: SB 66 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JANUARY 4, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Senator Leyva
JANUARY 7, 2015
An act to repeal and add Section 88540 add
Section 463 to the Business and Professions Code, and to amend
Sections 69439 and 88650 of the Education Code, relating to
career technical education, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately. education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 66, as amended, Leyva. Career Technical Education
Pathways Program. Career technical education.
(1) Existing law establishes various career technical education
programs, including regional occupational centers and programs,
specialized secondary programs, partnership academies, and
agricultural career technical education programs. Existing law
provides for numerous boards, bureaus, commissions, or programs
within the Department of Consumer Affairs that administer the
licensing and regulation of various businesses and professions.
This bill would require the department to make available to the
Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges any
licensure information that the department has in electronic format
for its boards, bureaus, commissions, or programs to enable the
office of the chancellor to measure employment outcomes of students
who participate in career technical education programs offered by the
California Community Colleges and recommend how these programs may
be improved.
(2) The Cal Grant Program establishes Cal Grant C awards, which
may be used only for occupational or technical training in a course
of not less than 4 months, under the administration of the Student
Aid Commission. Existing law requires the maximum award amount and
the total amount of funding for Cal Grant C awards to be determined
each year in the annual Budget Act.
Unless adjusted in the annual Budget Act, this bill would set the
maximum Cal Grant C award amount for tuition and fees at $2,462 and
for access costs at $3,000.
(3) Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges to implement performance accountability outcome
measures for the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce
Development Program.
This bill would urge the chancellor to align these measures with
the performance accountability measures of the federal Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act.
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 majority . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:
(a) The economic competitiveness of California is fueled by the
strength of regional economies and their skilled workers. Upward
social and economic mobility and increased opportunities keep the
state's economy diversified and vibrant.
(b) The pathway out of poverty for millions of California
residents is the attainment of industry-valued "middle skill
credentials," which is defined as a job requiring a certificate,
associate's degree, or third-party credential that is less advanced
than a bachelor's degree, but more advanced than a high school
diploma.
(c) Middle skill credentials serve as the gateway for a large
number of careers in the state's prioritized and emergent industry
sectors.
(d) The California Community Colleges Board of Governor's Task
Force on Workforce, Job Creation, and a Strong Economy, also referred
to as the Strong Workforce Task Force, identified 25 policy and
strategy recommendations to help close the gap on these middle skill
credentials.
(e) The recommendations built upon the foundation established by
the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development
Program in Part 52.5 (commencing with Section 88600) of Division 7 of
Title 3 of the Education Code, the Office of the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the
Economy framework, and the federal Workforce Innovation and
Opportunities Act (Public Law 113-128).
(f) With the enactment of the federal Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (Public Law 113-128), California agencies receiving
workforce-related funds have adopted the following common program
strategies articulated by the California Workforce Investment Board:
(1) Partnering in sector strategies to ensure training programs
are relevant to the economy.
(2) Building career pathways to increase access, flexibility, and
facilitated navigation of training and education programs.
(3) Utilizing "earn and learn" to increase simultaneous access to
income and training for those who cannot afford full-time education.
(4) Organizing regionally to benefit from economies of scale,
recognizing gains when labor markets and industry are organized
regionally.
(5) Providing supportive services to remove barriers to program
completion and employment.
(6) Creating cross-system data capacity to ensure effective use of
resources.
(7) Integrating service delivery and braiding of resources to
optimize limited resources and make use of program specializations to
better serve individuals.
SEC. 2. Section 463 is added to the
Business and Professions Code , to read:
463. (a) The department shall make available to the Office of the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges any licensure
information that the department has in electronic format for its
boards, bureaus, commissions, or programs to enable the office of the
chancellor to measure employment outcomes of students who
participate in career technical education programs offered by the
California Community Colleges and recommend how these programs may be
improved.
(b) The department may make available confidential information
pursuant to subdivision (a) only to the extent that making the
information available is in compliance with state and federal privacy
laws.
SEC. 3. Section 69439 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
69439. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms
have the following meanings:
(1) "Career pathway" has the same meaning as set forth in Section
88620.
(2) "Economic security" has the same meaning as set forth in
Section 14005 of the Unemployment Insurance Code.
(3) "Industry cluster" has the same meaning as set forth in
Section 88620.
(4) "Long-term unemployed" means, with respect to an award
applicant, a person who has been unemployed for more than 26 weeks at
the time of submission to the commission of his or her application.
(5) "Occupational or technical training" means that phase of
education coming after the completion of a secondary school program
and leading toward recognized occupational goals approved by the
commission.
(b) A Cal Grant C award shall be utilized only for occupational or
technical training in a course of not less than four months. There
shall be the same number of Cal Grant C awards each year as were made
in the 2000-01 fiscal year. The maximum award amount and
the total amount of funding shall be determined each year
in the annual Budget Act. Act and the maximum
award amount shall be in accordance with the following:
(1) The maximum amount of an annual Cal Grant C award for tuition
and fees shall not exceed two thousand four hundred sixty-two dollars
($2,462).
(2) The maximum amount of an annual Cal Grant C award for access
costs shall not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000).
(3) The maximum amount of a Cal Grant C award pursuant to
paragraphs (1) and (2) may be adjusted in the annual Budget Act.
(c) The commission may use criteria it deems appropriate in
selecting students to receive grants for occupational or technical
training and shall give special consideration to the social and
economic situations of the students applying for these grants, giving
additional weight to disadvantaged applicants, applicants who face
economic hardship, and applicants who face particular barriers to
employment. Criteria to be considered for these purposes shall
include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Family income and household size.
(2) Student's or the students' parent's household status,
including whether the student is a single parent or child of a single
parent.
(3) The employment status of the applicant and whether the
applicant is unemployed, giving greater weight to the long-term
unemployed.
(d) The Cal Grant C award recipients shall be eligible for renewal
of their grants until they have completed their occupational or
technical training in conformance with terms prescribed by the
commission. A determination by the commission for a subsequent award
year that the program under which a Cal Grant C award was initially
awarded is no longer deemed to receive priority shall not affect an
award recipient's renewal. In no case shall the grants exceed two
calendar years.
(e) Cal Grant C awards may be used for institutional
fees, charges, and other costs, including tuition, plus
access costs, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 69432.7,
and training-related costs, such as special clothing,
local transportation, required tools,
tools and equipment, supplies, books, and living
expenses. and institutional charges. In
determining the individual award amounts, the commission shall take
into account the financial means available to the student to fund his
or her course of study and costs of attendance as well as other
state and federal programs available to the applicant.
(f) (1) To ensure alignment with the state's dynamic economic
needs, the commission, in consultation with appropriate state and
federal agencies, including the Economic and Workforce Development
Division of the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges and the California Workforce Investment Board, shall
identify areas of occupational and technical training for which
students may utilize Cal Grant C awards. The commission, to the
extent feasible, shall also consult with representatives of the state'
s leading competitive and emerging industry clusters, workforce
professionals, and career technical educators, to determine which
occupational training programs and industry clusters should be
prioritized.
(2) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the areas of
occupational and technical training developed pursuant to paragraph
(1) shall be regularly reviewed and updated at least every five
years, beginning in 2012.
(B) By January 1, 2016, the commission shall update the priority
areas of occupational and technical training.
(3) (A) The commission shall give priority in granting Cal Grant C
awards to students pursuing occupational or technical training in
areas that meet two of the following criteria pertaining to job
quality:
(i) High employer need or demand for the specific skills offered
in the program.
(ii) High employment growth in the occupational field or industry
cluster for which the student is being trained.
(iii) High employment salary and wage projections for workers
employed in the occupations for which they are being trained.
(iv) The occupation or training program is part of a
well-articulated career pathway to a job providing economic security.
(B) To receive priority pursuant to subparagraph (A), at least one
of the criteria met shall be specified in clause (iii) or (iv) of
that subparagraph.
(g) The commission shall determine areas of occupational or
technical training that meet the criteria described in paragraph (3)
of subdivision (f) in consultation with the Employment Development
Department, the Economic and Workforce Development Division of the
Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and
the California Workforce Investment Board using projections available
through the Labor Market Information Data Library. The commission
may supplement the analyses of the Employment Development Department'
s Labor Market Information Data Library with the labor market
analyses developed by the Economic and Workforce Development Division
of the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges
and the California Workforce Investment Board, as well as the
projections of occupational shortages and skills gap developed by
industry leaders. The commission shall publish, and retain, on its
Internet Web site a current list of the areas of occupational or
technical training that meet the criteria described in paragraph (3)
of subdivision (f), and update this list as necessary.
(h) Using the best available data, the commission shall examine
the graduation rates and job placement data, or salary data, of
eligible programs. Commencing with the 2014-15 academic year, the
commission shall give priority to Cal Grant C award applicants
seeking to enroll in programs that rate high in graduation rates and
job placement data, or salary data.
(i) (1) The commission shall consult with the Employment
Development Department, the Office of the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges, the California Workforce Investment
Board, and the local workforce investment boards to develop a plan to
publicize the existence of the grant award program to California's
long-term unemployed to be used by those consulting agencies when
they come in contact with members of the population who are likely to
be experiencing long-term unemployment. The outreach plan shall use
existing administrative and service delivery processes making use of
existing points of contact with the long-term unemployed. The local
workforce investment boards are required to participate only to the
extent that the outreach efforts are a part of their existing
responsibilities under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998
(Public Law 105-220).
(2) The commission shall consult with the Workforce Services
Branch of the Employment Development Department, the Office of the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the California
Workforce Investment Board, and the local workforce investment boards
to develop a plan to make students receiving awards aware of job
search and placement services available through the Employment
Development Department and the local workforce investment boards.
Outreach shall use existing administrative and service delivery
processes making use of existing points of contact with the students.
The local workforce investment boards are required to participate
only to the extent that the outreach efforts are a part of their
existing responsibilities under the federal Workforce Investment Act
of 1998 (Public Law 105-220).
(j) (1) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code,
the Legislative Analyst's Office shall submit a report to the
Legislature on the outcomes of the Cal Grant C program on or before
April 1, 2015, and on or before April 1 of each odd-numbered year
thereafter. This report shall include, but not necessarily be limited
to, information on all of the following:
(A) The age, gender, and segment of attendance for recipients in
two prior award years.
(B) The occupational and technical training program categories
prioritized.
(C) The number and percentage of students who received selection
priority as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (f).
(D) The extent to which recipients in these award years were
successfully placed in jobs that meet local, regional, or state
workforce needs.
(2) For the report due on or before April 1, 2015, the Legislative
Analyst's Office shall include data for two additional prior award
years and shall compare the mix of occupational and technical
training programs and institutions in which Cal Grant C award
recipients enrolled before and after implementation of subdivision
(f).
(3) A report to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
SEC. 4. Section 88650 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
88650. (a) The chancellor shall implement performance
accountability outcome measures for the economic and workplace
development program that provide the Governor, Legislature, and
general public with information that quantifies employer and student
outcomes for those participating in the program. At a
minimum, these performance measures shall include all of the
following: These performance accountability measures
should, to the extent possible, align with the performance
accountability measures of the federal Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (Public Law 113-128).
(1) Measures of skills or competency attainment by students and
workers receiving educational or workforce training services under
the program.
(2) Measures relevant to program completion, including measures of
course, certificate, degree, and program of study rates of
completion for students or workers receiving education or workforce
training services under the program.
(3) Measures of employment placement or measures of educational
progression, such as transfer readiness, for students or workers
receiving education or workforce training services under the program,
depending on whether the client is entering the labor market or
continuing in education.
(4) For those who have entered the labor market following
completion of the education or workforce training services offered
under the program, measures of income, including wage measures.
(5) A quantitative assessment of impacts on businesses receiving
services under the program. These may include data pertaining to
profitability, labor productivity, workplace injuries, employer cost
savings resulting from improved business processes, levels of
customer satisfaction, employee retention rates, estimates of new
revenue generated, sales, and market penetration, as well as
information pertaining to new products or services developed.
(b) The chancellor shall submit a report to the Governor and
Legislature on or about March 1 of each year. This report shall
include, but not necessarily be limited to, all
both of the following:
(1) Sufficient information to ensure the understanding of the
magnitude of expenditures, by type of expenditure, including those
specified in Section 88625, disaggregated by industry sector or
cluster, region, and type of grant.
(2) Information pertaining to the type of services provided to
colleges and employers, and the number of businesses, students, and
employees served, including information to identify the benchmarks
and indicators used to demonstrate the results achieved.
(3)
( 2) Data summarizing outcome accountability
performance measures enumerated and required by
this section.
SECTION 1. Section 88540 of the Education Code
is repealed.
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: