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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 184
Author: Ruskin (D)
Amended: 8/16/10 in Assembly
Vote: 21
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE OR FILE
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 08/17/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher
Education
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution expresses the Joint Committee on
the Master Plan for Higher Education's recommendation that
its existence be extended into the 2011-12 Regular Session,
until November 30, 2012, to continue the work it has
accomplished thus far.
ANALYSIS : Existing law declares legislative intent that
the continuous planning process for the Master Plan for
Higher Education (Master Plan) includes a legislative study
of California postsecondary education at 10-year intervals
and continuous planning by a state commission including a
five-year plan updated annually.
This resolution makes various findings and declarations
regarding the importance of an educated society and
workforce, the design of the Master Plan as a living
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document open for revision, the recent 50th anniversary
review of the Master Plan by the Joint Committee on the
Master Plan for Higher Education (Joint Committee), the
need for California to recommit to higher education and for
the Legislature to address the various areas of policy
improvements identified by the Joint Committee, and
recommends that the Joint Committee be extended into the
2011-12 Regular Session in order to continue its work.
Comments
The Joint Committee, established pursuant to ACR 65
(Ruskin), Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2009, was
created to review the Master Plan and create a framework to
ensure that higher education continues to thrive. The
Joint Committee has held eight informational hearings
conducting a needs-based assessment of higher education in
California.
Purpose of this Resolution . According to the author's
office, "The Master Plan for Higher Education was, and is,
a comprehensive policy framework assuring that the people
and State of California have available to them a higher
education system that meets their needs. The creation of
the Master Plan in 1960 signaled an unparalleled commitment
to California Higher Education, in both its size and scale.
It engineered universal opportunity through planned and
coordinated growth. Fifty years later, the 2010 Joint
Committee on the Master Plan held eight hearings over the
course of 2010 to determine the needs of the state. This
resolution contains the results of the needs-based
assessment conducted by the Joint Committee in 2010, also
reflected in the Committee Report entitled 'Appreciating
our Past, Ensuring our Future: A Public Agenda for Public
Higher Education in California.' This resolution
recommends that the Joint Committee be reauthorized to
complete the work started in 2010."
Related Legislation
AB 1901 (Ruskin), pending on the Governor's desk, codifies
several findings and declarations contained in the report
"Appreciating Our Past, Ensuring Our Future: A Public
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Agenda for Public Higher Education in California" by the
Joint Committee, and establishes legislative intent that
the work of the Master Plan review committees be used as a
guide to higher education policy.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield,
Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Carter, Chesbro,
Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore,
Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller,
Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Hagman, Hall,
Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman,
Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello,
Nielsen, Norby, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino, Ruskin,
Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran,
Villines, Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Blakeslee, Charles Calderon, Gilmore,
Vacancy
CPM:cm 8/25/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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