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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 830
Author: Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review
Amended: 6/12/16
Vote: 21 - Urgency
SENATE FLOOR: Not relevant
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: Not available
SUBJECT: Education
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill makes various statutory changes necessary to
implement the postsecondary education-related provisions of the
Budget Act of 2016.
Assembly
Amendments delete the prior version of the bill and insert
current language.
ANALYSIS: This bill provides for the following:
1) California Library Services Act. Updates and modernizes the
California Library Services Act to reflect local libraries'
increasing use of and sharing of digital materials, and
eliminates references to a reimbursement program among
libraries that is no longer utilized. Provides $3 million
one-time General Fund to the State Library for the California
Library Services Act, and requires the State Library to
report on the use of additional funds.
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2) Compton Community College. Adjusts the interest rate on
three Compton Community College District emergency
apportionments to 2.307 percent, which is reflective of the
rate recently provided to other K-12 agencies.
3) Innovation Awards. Implements the Innovation Awards for
2016-17, which will provide grants to community college
programs that reduce students' time to degree or total cost
of attendance in three categories: programs that redesign
curriculum and instruction, such as implementation of
three-year bachelor's degrees; programs that allow students
to make progress toward degrees by allowing credit based on
demonstration of knowledge and competencies, such as military
training or prior experiences; and, programs that make
financial aid more accessible or reduce other student costs.
Grants will be awarded by a committee, which will give
preference to programs that improve outcomes for students
from groups that are underrepresented in higher education.
4) Middle Class Scholarship. Adjusts the Middle Class
Scholarship program statutory appropriation in 2016-17 and
beyond with a $42 million General Fund decrease. Funds
available in 2016-17 will be $74 million; with the allocation
growing to $117 million in 2017-18 and beyond.
5) Community College Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program.
Establishes the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program,
which provides $5 million one-time Proposition 98 General
Fund to community colleges that implement these programs.
Zero-textbook-cost degrees are associate degrees or career
technical education certificates earned by completing courses
that eliminate conventional textbook costs by using
alternative instructional materials, such as open educational
resources. This bill provides a maximum grant of $200,000 to
community college districts for each degree developed or
implemented that eliminates textbook costs for students.
6) San Francisco Community College District. Provides San
Francisco City College with five years of restoration
enrollment by authorizing the college ability to earn back
enrollment funding for five years, beginning in 2017-18, if
the college exceeds the systemwide enrollment target during
this period.
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7) Adult Education Technical Assistance. Provides $5 million
Proposition 98 General Fund to support technical assistance
to adult education regional consortia. Funding will allow a
chosen community college district or local education agency
to provide statewide leadership activities for consortia,
including disseminating best practices, providing
professional development and evaluating the adult education
program.
8) Adult Education. Requires reporting from the Chancellor of
the Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction no later than August 1, 2017 on options for
integrating the adult education assessments into the common
assessment system developed by the community colleges.
Extends the deadline for annual reporting on adult education
outcomes from Sept 30 to a two-part report due on October 30
and January 1 of each year.
9) Career Technical Education Pathways. Extends the sunset date
for the Career Technical Education Pathways Program from June
30, 2016, to July 1, 2017.
10) Student Success Basic Skills Program. Creates the
Student Success for Basic Skills Program and eliminates the
Basic Skills Initiative. The new program provides categorical
funding to help improve outcomes for students in
pre-collegiate level courses. Funding supports the
implementation of evidence-based practices and will be
distributed, beginning in 2017-18, using a three-part
formula: 50 percent will be based on colleges' ability to
transition students from remedial courses to college-level
English and math courses within one year or two years; 25
percent will be based on the percentage of low-income
students at a college; and, 25 percent will be based on the
number of basic skills students enrolled in courses that use
evidence-based practices at a college.
11) Community College Strong Workforce. Establishes the
Strong Workforce Program to expand quality career technical
education and workforce development courses, pathways, and
programs at community colleges. Career Technical Education
(CTE) Regional Consortia will collaborate with other public
institutions, such local education agencies, and relevant
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stakeholders to increase the number of CTE offerings. Each
consortium shall submit a regional plan by January 31, once
every four years, to the Chancellor's Office, regarding the
governance model of the consortium, analysis of regional
labor market needs, wage data for each industry sector,
measurable regional goals that align with the performance
measures of the federal Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act,
among others. Forty percent of funds will be distributed to
the CTE Regional Consortia, and 60 percent funds will be
distributed directly to community college districts. In
2016-17, funds shall be allocated using a three-part formula:
one-third will be based on the local unemployment rate;
one-third will be based on the regions proportion of CTE
full-time-equivalent students; and, one third will be based
on the projected job openings. Beginning in 2017-18, funds
shall be allocated using a four-part formula: one-third will
be based on the local unemployment rate; one-third will be
based on the regions proportion of CTE full-time-equivalent
students; 17 percent will be based on the projected job
openings; and, 17 percent based on the proportion of
successful workforce outcomes.
12) University of California and California State
University Reports. Requires the University of California
(UC) and California State University (CSU) to provide
information in bi-annual reports to the Legislature and
Department of Finance regarding the costs of educating a
student based on a cost of instruction model developed by the
National Association of College and University Business
Officers.
13) UC Admission of California Residents. Specifies
that, as a condition of receiving funds in the 2016 Budget
Act, the UC approve a plan and timeline, beginning in the
2016-17 academic year, to increase the number of California
resident freshman admits who meet admission requirements at
each campus, including students who are enrolled in high
schools with seventy-five percent or more unduplicated
pupils; and expand services and resources to students who
enroll at UC from these schools.
14) UC Subject Matter Projects. Repeals the sunset date
for UC Subject Matter Projects, which is scheduled to sunset
on June 30, 2017.
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15) Precision Medicine. Establishes until January 1,
2020, the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine
in the Office of Planning and Research for the purpose of
developing, implementing, awarding funding to, and evaluating
demonstration projects on precision medicine in collaboration
with public, nonprofit, and private entities.
16) California Firearm Violence Research Center. States
legislative intent to establish a center for research into
firearm-related violence at the UC. Its research shall
include, but not be limited to, the effectiveness of existing
laws and policies intended to reduce firearm violence,
including the criminal misuse of firearms, and efforts to
promote the responsible ownership and use of firearms.
17) Community College Full-Time Faculty. Amends the
2015 Budget Act to clarify funding provided to increase the
number of full-time faculty at community colleges to be
distributed to all districts, including basic aid districts.
18) Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure.
Provides $7 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund to
enhance network infrastructure at community colleges.
19) Local Property Tax Revenue. Provides $31.7 million
Proposition 98 General Fund to community colleges to backfill
for local property tax revenue that was less than anticipated
in the 2015 Budget Act.
20) Community College Online Education. Provides $20
million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund to expedite and
enhance the development of online courses available through
the online course exchange of the Online Education
Initiative.
21) UC A-G Courses. Provides $4 million one-time
General Fund to the UC to develop online classes and
curriculum for at least 45 middle school and high school
courses that align with State Board of Education standards
and UC admissions standards satisfying the "a-g" subject
requirements.
22) CSU Graduation Plan. Provides $35 one-time General
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Fund to the CSU to increase graduation rates. Funding is
contingent upon the adoption of a graduation rate improvement
plan. The plan must specify the timeframe in which the CSU
and each campus will increase the four-year graduation rate
for freshman students and two-year graduation rate for
transfer students above the graduation rate of students at
other postsecondary institutions; and increase the four-year
and two-year graduation rates of low-income, students from
underrepresented minority groups, and first generation
college students. CSU will be required to report
recommendations to the Legislature and the Director of
Finance to improve graduation rates, as specified in the
plan.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: Yes Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/14/16)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/14/16)
None received
Prepared by: Anita Lee / B. & F.R. / (916) 651-4103
6/17/16 15:10:17
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