BILL ANALYSIS Ó SB 66 Page 1 Date of Hearing: August 10, 2016 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Lorena Gonzalez, Chair SB 66 (Leyva) - As Amended August 2, 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Policy |Higher Education |Vote:|13 - 0 | |Committee: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | |Business and Professions | |16 - 0 | | | | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No SUMMARY: This bill: 1)Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to provide of the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (CCCCO), upon request, with specified information regarding licensees of DCA's boards, bureaus, commissions, or programs, only for the purpose of enabling the Chancellor's Office to: SB 66 Page 2 a) measure employment outcomes of students participating in CCC career technical education (CTE) programs, and b) to recommend improvements in those programs. The information must be provided consistent with state and federal privacy laws. 2)Requires the CCC, to the extent possible, to align performance accountability outcome measures for its Economic and Workplace Development Program (EWDP) with the performance accountability measures of the federal (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) WIOA. FISCAL EFFECT: 1)The CCCCO foresees significant ongoing savings from obtaining the licensure information directly from DCA rather than through an expansion of existing surveys of students to track program outcomes. Costs to evaluate the licensing data in relation to CTE programs and to align the outcome measures will be minor and absorbable. 2)Costs will be minor and absorbable for the DCA to establish an interface with the CCC in order to electronically provide the licensure information. COMMENTS: 1)Sharing Licensure Information. According to the author, "Currently, it is very difficult to acquire information on employment outcomes after students leave the education system. This is especially true when looking at third party licensure and certification because a lack of information makes it SB 66 Page 3 difficult to determine how well CTE programs prepared students for these various fields." SB 66 addresses this issue by requiring, to the extent the disclosure is in compliance with state and federal privacy laws, the DCA to make any licensure information available to the CCCCO for the purposes of matching students and evaluating the outcomes of CTE programs. 2)WIOA and EWDP. Enacted in 2014, WIOA, which superseded the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, is intended to help job seekers and workers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and match employers with skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy. The community college's EWDP advances the economic growth and global competitiveness of California and its regional economies by providing education, training, and other services that contribute to continuous workforce improvement, technology deployment, and business development. With the enactment of WIOA, a single set of common performance measures has been adopted for programs serving both adults and youths under the Act. This bill replaces existing accountability language under the EWDP with performance accountability outcome measures consistent to those required under WIOA. Analysis Prepared by:Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081 SB 66 Page 4