BILL NUMBER: SB 380	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Allen

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2015

   An act to add Article 24 (commencing with Section 70050) to
Chapter 2 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code,
relating to student financial aid.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 380, as introduced, Allen. Student financial aid: Topline
Teacher Recruitment and Retention Program.
   Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the state
agency charged with the responsibility of administering student
financial aid programs, including the
Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, the
Assumption Program of Loans for Education, the State Nursing
Assumption Program of Loans for Education, the Graduate Assumption
Program of Loans for Education, and the Middle Class Scholarship
Program, among other programs.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish the Topline Teacher Recruitment and
Retention Program, under the administration of the Student Aid
Commission, which would make funds available to students at public
postsecondary educational institutions who have graduated in the top
5% of their secondary school classes and have committed to teaching
in public secondary schools for a specified number of years.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Article 24 (commencing with Section 70050) is added to
Chapter 2 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code,
to read:

      Article 24.  Topline Teacher Recruitment and Retention Program


   70050.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
to establish the Topline Teacher Recruitment and Retention Program,
under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, to make funds
available to students at public postsecondary educational
institutions who have graduated in the top 5 percent of their
secondary school classes and have committed to teaching in public
secondary schools for a specified number of years.