BILL ANALYSIS
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 232 (Ducheny)
As Amended August 31, 2007
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :24-11
EDUCATION 10-0 APPROPRIATIONS 13-2
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|Ayes:|Mullin, Garrick, |Ayes:|Leno, Caballero, Davis, |
| |Brownley, Coto, Eng, | |DeSaulnier, |
| |Hancock, Huff, Karnette, | |Emmerson, Huffman, |
| |Nakanishi, Solorio | |Karnette, Krekorian, |
| | | |Lieu, Ma, Nava, Solorio, |
| | | |De Leon |
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| | |Nays:|Walters, Nakanishi |
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SUMMARY : Extends the sunset on the California Subject Matter
Projects (CSMP) and requires the Regents of the University of
California (UC) to prepare a final report. Specifically, this
bill :
1)Extends the sunset of the CSMP from June 30, 2007 to June 30,
2012, and as of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later
enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2013,
deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative
and is repealed.
2)Deletes obsolete provisions requiring an independent
evaluation.
3)Requires the UC to provide a final report to the Governor and
appropriate policy and fiscal committee of the Legislature on
or before January 1, 2011, and requires the report to include,
but not be limited to, all of the following information,
compiled for a four-year period:
a) The number, and level of experience, of participants in
each subject matter project;
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b) The total amount of funds expended, on an annual basis,
for each subject matter project;
c) An explanation of the type of professional development
activities offered pursuant to each subject matter project;
and,
d) A list including the name and location of each school
affiliated with a subject matter project.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Provides for the establishment and maintenance of Subject
Matter Projects for the purpose of developing and enhancing
teachers' subject matter knowledge in the following six
specified areas: writing, reading and literature, mathematics,
science, history-social science, and world history and
international studies.
2)Requires the UC Regents with the approval of an intersegmental
Concurrence Committee to establish and maintain the projects
with funds appropriated in the Budget Act.
3)Authorizes the UC to establish other subject matter projects
and prohibits funds allocated in the Budget Act from being
used for subject matter projects not specified in law.
4)Specifies that the CSMPs become inoperative on June 30, 2007
and are repealed on January 1, 2008.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, General Fund cost pressure of $9 million.
COMMENTS : Established by SB 1882 (Morgan/Hart) in 1988 and then
reauthorized by AB 1734 (Mazzoni), Chapter 333, Statutes of
1998, the California Subject Matter Projects are administered by
the UC Regents to provide professional development consistent
with the state's Academic Content Standards. The CSMP serves
over 800 School districts in close to 100 sites statewide on
campuses of the UC, California State University, and independent
colleges and universities. According to the UC, the projects
annually provide training to over 40,000 teachers,
administrators, and university faculty.
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Current law authorizes six subject matter projects and this bill
simply extends the authorization for those six projects. The UC
maintains three additional subject matter projects that are not
currently authorized in statute: physical education/health,
foreign languages and the arts. AB 1734 made significant
governance and programmatic changes and eliminated these three
projects. AB 1734 also authorized the UC to establish other
CSMPs, with the condition that the new projects would not
receive funding in the annual Budget Act.
Analysis Prepared by : Misty Feusahrens / ED. / (916) 319-2087
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