Amended in Assembly August 8, 2016

Amended in Assembly May 25, 2016

Senate Bill No. 854

Introduced by Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

January 7, 2016

An act begin delete relating to the Budget Act of 2016. end delete begin insert to amend Section 44393 of the Education Code, to amend Section 65057 of the Government Code, to amend Sections 10507.8 and 20651.7 of the Public Contract Code, and to amend Section 34 of Chapter 24 of, and to amend Section 39 of Chapter 29 of, the Statutes of 2016, relating to education, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 854, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. begin delete Budget Act of 2016. end delete begin insert Education. end insert

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(1) Existing law establishes the California Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing Program for the purpose of recruiting classified school employees to participate in a program designed to encourage them to enroll in teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as teachers in the public schools. Subject to an appropriation for these purposes, existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other things, to adopt criteria for the selection of school districts, charter schools, or county offices of education to participate in the program. Existing law requires that criteria to include the extent to which the applicant’s plan for recruitment attempts to meet the demand for teachers in shortage areas, as specified.

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This bill would add to that criteria the extent to which the applicant’s plan for recruitment attempts to meet the demand for bilingual cross-cultural teachers.

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(2) Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2020, the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine under the administration of the Office of Planning and Research in the Governor’s Office for the purpose of developing, implementing, awarding funding to, and evaluating demonstration projects on precision medicine in collaboration with public, nonprofit, and private entities, as specified.

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This bill would exempt the office’s implementation and interpretation of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine from the Administrative Procedure Act.

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(3) Existing law requires the Regents of the University of California, except as provided, to let all contracts involving an expenditure of more than $100,000 annually for goods and materials or services to the lowest responsible bidder meeting certain specifications, or to reject all bids. Existing law requires the governing board of any community college district to let specified contracts involving an expenditure of more than $50,000 to the lowest responsible bidder meeting certain specifications, or else to reject all bids. Existing law provides that, before the repeal date of January 1, 2018, the bid evaluation and selection for these contracts may be determined by the best value for the University of California or community college district, as specified. Existing law requires the Legislative Analyst to report, on or before February 1, 2017, to the Legislature regarding the use of best value procurement by the University of California and community college districts.

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This would make that repeal date January 1, 2019, and would make the deadline for the reports regarding the University of California and a community college district’s use of best value procurement on or before February 1, 2018.

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(4) The California Library Services Act establishes the California Library Services Board and provides that its duties include, among other things, adopting rules, regulations, and general policies relating to the implementation of the act. Existing law appropriates $3,000,000 from the General Fund to the California State Library for allocation, as specified. Existing law requires the California State Library, on or before September 1, 2017, to submit a specified report on the use of those funds to the Director of Finance and the Legislature.

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This bill would remove a redundant provision from that reporting law.

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(5) Existing law appropriates $18,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer by the Controller to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Existing law requires the Superintendent to allocate the funds to local educational agencies as grants for dropout and truancy prevention programs pursuant to legislation enacted in the 2015-16 Regular Session.

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This bill would authorize the department to use up to $300,000, of the $18,000,000 appropriated, to contract with a local educational agency for the purpose of conducting regional meetings, training, and other assistance as needed to support the grantees receiving grant moneys for dropout and truancy prevention programs pursuant to legislation enacted in the 2015-16 Regular Session and pursuant to the development and submission of an expenditure plan, as specified. By expanding the purposes of an existing appropriation, the bill would make an appropriation.

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(6) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

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This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2016.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 44393 of the end insert begin insert Education Code end insert begin insert is amended
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44393.  

(a) The California Classified School Employee Teacher
Credentialing Program is hereby established for the purpose of
recruiting classified school employees to participate in a program
designed to encourage them to enroll in teacher training programs
and to provide instructional service as teachers in the public
schools.

(b) Subject to an appropriation for these purposes in the annual
Budget Act or another statute, the commission shall issue a request
for proposals to all school districts, charter schools, and county
offices of education in the state in order to solicit applications for
funding. The criteria adopted by the commission for the selection
of school districts, charter schools, or county offices of education
to participate in the program shall include all of the following:

(1) The extent to which the applicant demonstrates the capacity
and willingness to accommodate the participation of classified
school employees in teacher training programs conducted at
institutions of higher education or a local educational agency.

(2) The extent to which the applicant’s plan for the
implementation of its recruitment program involves the active
participation of one or more local campuses of the participating
institutions of higher education in the development of coursework
and teaching programs for participating classified school
employees. Each selected applicant shall be required to enter into
a written articulation agreement with the participating campuses
of the institutions of higher education.

(3) The extent to which the applicant’s plan for recruitment
attempts to meet the demand for begin insert end insert begin insert bilingual cross-cultural teachers
and end insert teachers in shortage areas in transitional kindergarten,
kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.

(4) The extent to which a developmentally sequenced series of
job descriptions leads from an entry-level classified school
employee position to an entry-level teaching position in that school
district, charter school, or county office of education.

(5) The extent to which the applicant’s plan for recruitment
attempts to meet its own specific teacher needs.

(c) An applicant that is selected to participate pursuant to
subdivision (b) shall provide information about the program to all
eligible classified school employees in the school district, charter
school, or county office of education and assistance to each
classified school employee it recruits under the program regarding
admission to a teacher training program.

(d) (1) An applicant shall require participants to satisfy both
of the following requirements before participating in the program:

(A) Pass a criminal background check.

(B) Provide verification of one of the following:

(i) Has earned an associate or higher level degree.

(ii) Has successfully completed at least two years of study at a
postsecondary educational institution.

(2) An applicant shall certify that it has received a commitment
from each participant that he or she will accomplish all of the
following:

(A) Graduate from an institution of higher education under the
program with a bachelor’s degree.

(B) Complete all of the requirements for, and obtain, a multiple
subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential.

(C) Complete one school year of classroom instruction in the
school district, charter school, or county office of education for
each year that he or she receives assistance for books, fees, and
tuition while attending an institution of higher education under the
program.

(e) The commission shall contract with an independent evaluator
with a proven record of experience in assessing teacher training
programs to conduct an evaluation to determine the success of the
program. The evaluation shall be completed on or before July 1,
2021. The commission shall submit the completed evaluation to
the Governor and the education policy and fiscal committees of
the Assembly and Senate.

(f) On or before January 1 of each year, the commission shall
report to the Legislature regarding the status of the program,
including, but not limited to, the number of classified school
employees recruited, the academic progress of the classified school
employees recruited, the number of classified school employees
recruited who are subsequently employed as teachers in the public
schools, the degree to which the applicant meets the teacher
shortage needs of the school district, charter school, or county
office of education, and the ethnic and racial composition of the
participants in the program. The report shall be made in
conformance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

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begin insert Section 65057 of the end insert begin insert Government Code end insert begin insert is amended to
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65057.  

(a) The California Initiative to Advance Precision
Medicine is hereby established in the office. In establishing the
initiative, the office shall incorporate agreements and partnerships
regarding precision medicine entered into by the office prior to
January 1, 2016.

(b) (1) The office shall develop, implement, and evaluate
demonstration projects on precision medicine in collaboration with
public, nonprofit, and private entities. A demonstration project
may focus on one or more disease areas, and an award of funds
under any appropriation of funds to the office for precision
medicine shall be based on criteria that include, but are not limited
to, the following:

(A) The potential for tangible benefit to patients within two to
five years, including the likelihood that the study will have an
immediate impact on patients.

(B) The depth and breadth of data available in the disease focus
areas across institutions.

(C) The prospects for efficient and effective data integration
and analysis.

(D) The expertise of potential team members.

(E) The resources available for the project outside of the
initiative, including the potential for leveraging nonstate funding.

(F) The clinical and commercial potential of the project.

(G) The potential to reduce health disparities.

(H) The potential to scale and leverage multiple electronic health
records systems.

(I) The potential to develop the use of tools, measurements, and
data, including publicly generated and available data.

(2) A demonstration project that is selected by the office shall
advance greater understanding in at least one of the following
areas, or in another area that is determined by the office to be
necessary to advance precision medicine:

(A) The application of precision medicine to specific disease
areas.

(B) The challenges of system interoperability.

(C) Economic analysis.

(D) Standards for sharing data or protocols across institutions.

(E) The federal and state regulatory environment.

(F) The clinical environment.

(G) Challenges relating to data, tools, and infrastructure.

(H) The protection of privacy and personal health information.

(I) The potential for reducing health disparities.

(J) Methods and protocols for patient engagement.

(3) The office shall develop concrete metrics and goals for
demonstration projects, monitor their progress, and
comprehensively evaluate projects upon completion.

(4) (A) On or before January 1, 2017, and annually thereafter,
the office shall submit a report to the Legislature that provides an
update of the demonstration projects selected. Upon completion
of a demonstration project, the office shall submit an evaluation
of the demonstration project to the Legislature. A demonstration
project is deemed complete when it has completed the agreed upon
tasks and deliverables, and the project funding has been completed.

(B) A written report made pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall
be made in compliance with Section 9795.

(c) The office shall develop an inventory of precision medicine
assets, including projects, data sets, and experts. In developing the
inventory, the office shall assemble knowledge across broad disease
areas. The office shall use the inventory to inform strategic areas
for the future development of precision medicine-related projects.

(d) The office may enter into agreements with public entities,
or with nonprofit or not-for-profit organizations for the purpose
of jointly administering the programs established under the
initiative or to administer any provision of this section.

(e) The office shall create and post on a publicly available
Internet Web site guidelines for an award of funds made under
any appropriation of funds to the office for precision medicine.
The guidelines shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(A) Eligibility requirements.

(B) A competitive, merit-based application process that allows
public and private academic and nonprofit institutions to submit
proposals as principal investigators.

(C) A comprehensive peer-reviewed selection process.

(D) Requirements regarding the use of awarded funds.

(E) Requirements regarding the use and sharing of research data
and findings.

(F) Requirements for the protection of privacy and personal
health information.

(f) The office shall solicit public, nonprofit, and private sector
input for any additional guidelines for an award of funds made
pursuant to this section.

(g) The office shall establish standards that require a grant to
be subject to an intellectual property agreement that balances the
opportunity of the state to benefit from the patents, royalties, and
licenses that result from basic research, therapy development, and
clinical trials against the need to ensure that the agreement does
not unreasonably hinder essential medical research.

(h) The office may receive nonstate funds in furtherance of the
initiative. “In furtherance of the initiative” means that funds may
be used to award additional demonstration projects under the same
terms and conditions as state funds in the initiative, held in reserve
for follow-on funding of any awardees, or used to fund other
nondemonstration project activities in a proportion no greater than
20 percent of the total of nonstate funds received over the term of
the commitment. The office shall return unexpended nonstate funds
to the source before January 1, 2020.

(i) Up to 30 percent of any amount appropriated to the office
for precision medicine may be held by the office until an equivalent
amount of nonstate matching funds is identified and received.
Amounts subject to nonstate match may be released in increments
as determined by the office.

(j) Up to 10 percent of any amount appropriated to the office
for precision medicine may be used by the office for administrative
costs.

(k) The office shall recruit a precision medicine expert selection
committee to represent various precision medicine-related skills,
such as bioinformatics, statistics, health economics, patient
engagement, and genomics. The Legislature may make nominations
for the selection committee to the office for consideration.

(l) Members of the selection committee shall be deemed to not
be interested in any contract, including any award of funds by the
committee, pursuant to this section.

(m) Prior to the selection committee’s deliberative process, the
office shall notify the Legislature of the selection of the committee
members.

(n) The selection committee established in subdivision (k) shall
comply with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9
(commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of
Division 3 of Title 2), except during the deliberative process as it
relates to reviewing and ranking proposals and making final
selections.

(o) The selection committee shall report on the justification for
selecting the demonstration projects that are awarded funding and
provide a list of the demonstration projects that were not selected.
This report shall be posted on the Internet Web site created in
subdivision (e).

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(p) Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the
Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2), the office may
implement or interpret this article without taking any regulatory
action.

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begin insert Section 10507.8 of the end insert begin insert Public Contract Code end insert begin insert is
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10507.8.  

(a) As provided for in this article, when the University
of California determines that it can expect long-term savings
through the use of life-cycle cost methodology, the use of more
sustainable goods and materials, and reduced administrative costs,
the lowest responsible bidder may be selected on the basis of the
best value to the university. In order to implement this method of
selection, the Regents of the University of California shall adopt
and publish policies and guidelines for evaluating bidders that
ensure that best value selections by the university are conducted
in a fair and impartial manner. These policies and guidelines shall
conform to the requirements of subdivisions (c) and (d) and shall
be applicable to the university when using best value as the bid
evaluation methodology.

(b) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions
apply:

(1) “Best value” means the most advantageous balance of price,
quality, service, performance, and other elements, as defined by
the university, achieved through methods in accordance with this
section and determined by objective performance criteria that may
include price, features, long-term functionality, life-cycle costs,
overall sustainability, and required services.

(2) “Best value agreement” means an agreement entered into
pursuant to the provisions of this section.

(3) “Best value awardee” means the lowest responsible bidder
or bidders that are awarded an agreement for goods, materials, or
services that was awarded through the use of best value for the bid
evaluation methodology.

(4) “Best value criteria” means those criteria set forth in
subdivision (d).

(5) “University” means all current campuses and locations of
the University of California, including the medical centers, the
national laboratories, and any future University of California
campuses and locations.

(c) (1) The university shall consider all of the following when
adopting policies and guidelines pursuant to subdivision (a):

(A) Price and service proposals that reduce the university’s
overall operating costs.

(B) Supply and material standards that support the university’s
strategic sourcing initiatives.

(C) A procedure for bid protest and resolution.

(2) The university shall award a best value agreement as follows:

(A) The university shall evaluate bidders based solely upon the
best value criteria set forth in the solicitation documents.
Solicitation for bids shall describe the best value criteria that the
university will consider in evaluating the bidders by overall
category and by specific attributes.

(B) The university shall award the agreement to the lowest
responsible bidder or bidders whose bid or bids are determined by
the university to be the best value in terms of price, quality, service,
and performance, and that meet the university’s requirements.

(C) Bid participants that are not awarded a best value agreement
shall be notified in writing at the end of the agreement award
process.

(d) For the purposes of this section, the university may take into
consideration any of the following best value criteria when
awarding a best value agreement for goods, materials, and services:

(1) The total cost to the university of its use or consumption of
goods, materials, and services.

(2) The operational cost or benefit incurred by the university as
a result of a contract award.

(3) The added value to the university, as defined in the request
for proposal, of vendor-added services.

(4) The quality and effectiveness of goods, materials, and
services.

(5) The use of more sustainable goods and materials in the
manufacturing of the goods and materials and the packaging of
these products.

(6) The reliability and timeliness of delivery and installation.

(7) The terms and conditions of product warranties, maintenance,
and vendor guarantees.

(8) The vendor’s quality assurance, continuous improvement,
and business resumption programs and their benefit to the
university.

(9) The vendor’s experience with the timely provision of goods,
materials, and services.

(10) The consistency of quality and availability of the vendor’s
proposed supplies, materials, and services with the university’s
overall procurement program.

(11) The economic benefits to the local community, including,
but not limited to, job creation or retention and the support of small
and local businesses.

(e) The university shall ensure that all businesses have a fair
and equitable opportunity to compete for, and participate in, the
university best value bids and shall also ensure that discrimination
in the award and performance of the agreement does not occur on
the basis of gender, marital status, ancestry, medical condition, or
any characteristic listed or defined in Section 11135 of the
Government Code, or retaliation for having filed a discrimination
complaint or protest in the performance of university contractual
obligations.

(f) (1) On or before July 1, 2016, the University of California
shall provide the Legislative Analyst’s Office with a list of the
policies and procedures adopted pursuant to subdivision (a). In
addition, the university shall also collect and provide the following
information to the Legislative Analyst’s Office for each contract
involving an expenditure of more than one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000) for goods, materials, or services that was entered
into on or after the effective date of this section:

(A) Whether the contract was awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder or using best value.

(B) A description of the products, commodities, or services as
defined in the bid solicitation.

(C) The names of the awardee or awardees of the agreement or
agreements.

(D) The actual volume resulting from the agreements, or
estimated volume if the agreements are less than one year old, of
all purchases.

(E) A description of any written bid protest or protests
concerning an aspect of the solicitation, bid, or award of the
agreement, including the resolution of the protest.

(F) For each contract awarded using best value, the criteria used
to evaluate the bids, as well as a summary of the rationale for
awarding the contract.

(G) For each contract awarded using best value, a summary of
any additional economic benefit other than the price of the contract,
including an explanation of whether those benefits were realized
as expected.

(H) For each contract awarded using best value, the university
shall identify one or more comparable contracts awarded using
the traditional lowest responsible bidder method, including, but
not limited to, contracts awarded prior to the adoption of the best
value acquisition policies.

(2) On or before February 1, begin delete 2017, end delete begin insert 2018, end insert the Legislative Analyst
shall report to the Legislature on the use of best value procurement
by the University of California. The Legislative Analyst shall use
the information provided by the university to report all of the
following:

(A) An assessment of any benefits or disadvantages of best
value acquisition as compared to bids awarded to the lowest
responsible bidder.

(B) An assessment of whether the use of best value procurement
has led to a difference in the number of disputes as compared to
contracts awarded using the traditional lowest responsible bidder
method.

(C) An assessment of the policies adopted by the university
pursuant to subdivision (a), as well as an assessment of the
performance criteria used by the university to evaluate the bids
and the effectiveness of the methodology.

(D) A comparison of the overall cost of contracts let under best
value acquisition pursuant to this section to similar contracts let
under traditional low bid procurement practices.

(E) Recommendations as to whether the best value at lowest
cost acquisition procurement authority should be continued.

(g) This section applies solely to the procurement of goods,
materials, or services and shall not apply to construction contracts.

(h) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, begin delete 2018, end delete
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(i) Except as otherwise provided in this article, this article is
not intended to change in any manner any guideline, criteria,
procedure, or requirement of the Regents of the University of
California to let any contract for goods, materials, or services to
the lowest responsible bidder meeting certain specifications or to
reject all bids.

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20651.7.  

(a) For the purposes of bid evaluation and selection
pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 20651, when a community
college district determines that it can expect long-term savings
through the use of life-cycle cost methodology, the use of more
sustainable goods and materials, and reduced administrative costs,
the community college district may provide for the selection of
the lowest responsible bidder on the basis of best value pursuant
to policies and procedures adopted by the governing board in
accordance with this section.

(b) For purposes of this section, “best value” means the most
advantageous balance of price, quality, service, performance, and
other elements, as defined by the governing board, achieved
through methods in accordance with this section and determined
by objective performance criteria that may include price, features,
long-term functionality, life-cycle costs, overall sustainability, and
required services.

(c) A community college district shall consider all of the
following when adopting best value policies pursuant to subdivision
(a):

(1) Price and service level proposals that reduce the district’s
overall operating costs, including end-of-life expenditures and
impact.

(2) Equipment, services, supplies, and materials standards that
support the community college district’s strategic acquisition and
management program direction.

(3) A procedure for protest and resolution.

(d) A community college district may consider any of the
following factors if adopting policies and procedures pursuant to
subdivision (c):

(1) The total cost to the community college district of its
purchase, use, and consumption of equipment, supplies, and
materials.

(2) The operational cost or benefit incurred by the community
college district as a result of a contract award.

(3) The added value to the community college district, as defined
in the request for proposal, of vendor-added services.

(4) The quality and effectiveness of equipment, supplies,
materials, and services.

(5) The reliability of delivery and installation schedules.

(6) The terms and conditions of product warranties and vendor
guarantees.

(7) The financial stability of the vendor.

(8) The vendor’s quality assurance program.

(9) The vendor’s experience with the provisions of equipment,
supplies, materials, and services within the institutional
marketplace.

(10) The consistency of the vendor’s proposed equipment,
supplies, materials, and services with the district’s overall supplies
and materials procurement program.

(11) The economic benefits to the local community, including,
but not limited to, job creation and retention.

(12) The environmental benefits to the local community.

(e) A community college district awarding a contract under this
section shall award a contract to the lowest responsible bidder
whose proposal is determined, in writing by the community college
district, to be the best value to the community college district based
solely on the criteria set forth in the request for proposal.

(f) The governing board of a community college district shall
issue a written notice of intent to award supporting its contract
award and stating in detail the basis of the award. The notice of
the intent to award and the contract file must be sufficient to satisfy
an external audit.

(g) The governing board of a community college district shall
publicly announce its award, identifying the bidder to which the
award is made, the price proposal of the contractor awarded the
contract, and the overall combined rating on the request for
proposal evaluation factors. The announcement shall also include
the ranking of the contractor awarded the contract in relation to
all other responsive bidders and their respective price proposals
and summary of the rationale for the contract award.

(h) The community college district shall ensure that all
businesses have a fair and equitable opportunity to compete for,
and participate in, district contracts and shall also ensure that
discrimination, as described in subdivision (e) of Section 12751.3
of the Public Utilities Code, in the award and performance of
contracts does not occur.

(i) (1) If a community college district elects to purchase
equipment, materials, supplies, and services by contract, let in
accordance with this section, the community college district shall
submit the following information to the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges on or before January 1, 2016:

(A) The community college district’s policies adopted pursuant
to subdivision (a).

(B) An annual list of district procurements for contracts with a
brief description of the contract, the winning bid, the cost, and if
the contract was done under best value acquisition policies.

(C) For a contract awarded under the best value acquisition
policies, the bid announcement announcing the bidder to which
the award was made, including that bidder’s scoring rating
compared to other bidders, the winning contractor’s price proposal,
the overall combined rating on the request for proposal evaluation
factors, a description of the products, commodities, or services
sought, and a summary of the rationale for the contract award.

(D) For each contract awarded using the best value acquisition
policies at least one bid award announcement for a comparably
priced contract using the traditional lowest responsible bidder
process that specifies the bidder to which the contract was awarded,
the amount of the award, and the request for bid for that contract
that includes a description of the products, commodities, or services
sought for at least one comparably sized contract, to the best value
contract being let, awarded pursuant to the traditional lowest
responsible bidder process including contracts awarded by the
district in the three years prior to the adoption of best value
acquisition policies by the district.

(E) For contracts awarded using best value, a summary of any
additional economic benefit other than the price of the contract
obtained, including an explanation of whether these benefits were
realized as expected.

(F) The total number of bid protests or protests concerning an
aspect of the solicitation, bid, or award of the agreement since the
district adopted policies pursuant to subdivision (a) and the number
of those protests that occurred under best value.

(G) A description of any written bid protest or protests
concerning an aspect of the solicitation, bid, or award of the
agreement including the resolution of the protest for any contract
submitted pursuant to this section.

(2) The Legislative Analyst shall request the chancellor to
provide the information specified in paragraph (1) to the Legislative
Analyst on or before July 1, 2016. On or before February 1, begin delete 2017, end delete
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use of competitive means for obtaining best value procurement by
community college districts. The Legislative Analyst shall use the
information provided by the chancellor to report all of the
following:

(A) A summary of the overall benefits of best value acquisition.

(B) A comparison of the overall cost of contracts let under best
value acquisition pursuant to this section to similar contracts let
under traditional low bid procurement practices.

(C) An assessment of any benefits or disadvantages of best value
procurement practices as compared to bids awarded to the lowest
responsible bidder.

(D) An assessment of whether the use of best value procurement
has led to a difference in the number of disputes as compared to
contracts awarded using the traditional lowest responsible bidder
method.

(E) An assessment of the policies adopted by the community
college districts pursuant to subdivision (a) as well as an assessment
of the overall performance criteria used to evaluate the bids and
the effectiveness of the methodology.

(F) Recommendations as to whether the best value at lowest
cost acquisition procurement authority should be continued.

(j) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, begin delete 2018, end delete
begin insert 2019, end insert and as of that date is repealed.

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begin insert Section 34 of Chapter 24 of the Statutes of 2016 is
amended to read: end insert

Sec. 34.  

(a) The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) is
hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the California State
Library for allocation pursuant to this act.

(b) (1) On or before September 1, 2017, the California State
Library shall submit a report to the Director of Finance and the
Legislature about the use of the moneys described in subdivision
(a). The report shall include all of the following:

(A) A summary of the grants awarded, including grant amounts.

(B) A description of the projects.

(C) A description of any additional funding benefiting the
projects.

(D) Information about the progress of grantees toward
establishing regional or statewide E-resource platforms.

(E) Information, where applicable, about the utilization of shared
E-resources resulting from the grants.

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(F) A description, where applicable, of any other funding
benefiting the projects.

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(2) The report submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government
Code.

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begin insert SEC. 6. end insert   

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begin insert Section 39 of Chapter 29 of the Statutes of 2016 is
amended to read: end insert

Sec. 39.  

(a)  begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert For the 2016-17 fiscal year, the sum of
eighteen million dollars ($18,000,000) is hereby appropriated from
the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer
by the Controller to Section A of the State School Fund for
allocation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allocate these funds to
provide grants to local educational agencies for dropout and truancy
prevention programs pursuant to legislation enacted in the 2015-16
Regular Session. These funds are available for encumbrance
through the 2018-19 fiscal year.

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(2) Of the total amount appropriated pursuant to paragraph
(1), the department may use up to three hundred thousand dollars
($300,000) to contract with a local educational agency for the
purpose of conducting regional meetings, training, and other
technical assistance activities as needed to support the grantees
receiving moneys for dropout and truancy prevention programs
pursuant to legislation enacted in the 2015-16 Regular Session
and pursuant to the development of an expenditure plan. These
funds shall be available for expenditure no sooner than 30 days
after the expenditure plan is provided to the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee.

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(b) For purposes of making the computations required by Section
8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriations
made by subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be “General Fund
revenues appropriated for school districts,” as defined in
subdivision (c) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the
2015-16 fiscal year, and included within the “total allocations to
school districts and community college districts from General Fund
proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B,” as
defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202 of the Education Code,
for the 2015-16 fiscal year.

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begin insert SEC. 7. end insert   

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This act is a bill providing for appropriations related
to the Budget Bill within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section
12 of Article IV of the California Constitution, has been identified
as related to the budget in the Budget Bill, and shall take effect
immediately.

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SECTION 1.  

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory
changes, relating to the Budget Act of 2016.

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