BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: April 21, 2009
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION
Anthony Portantino, Chair
AB 1182 (Brownley) - As Introduced: February 27, 2009
SUBJECT : Public postsecondary education: reporting
requirements.
SUMMARY : Eliminates, restructures, and reorganizes various
higher education reporting requirements of the state's public
universities and colleges to provide for more effective,
manageable, and transparent reporting to the Legislature.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Eliminates, restructures, and reorganizes 49 reports to the
Legislature that are required of the University of California
(UC), the California State University (CSU), and the
California Community Colleges (CCC), as follows:
a) Eliminates 19 of the existing higher education reporting
requirements, equally spread among the three segments.
b) Moves 39 non-codified reporting requirements (primarily
Supplemental Reporting language contained in previous
budget acts) into statute, providing clear direction to the
segments for this group of reports and a more manageable
system of reporting to the Legislature.
c) Clarifies that the 10 other current non-codified
reporting requirements that are not included in this bill
will cease to be active reporting requirements as the
result of intent language contained in this bill, relieving
the segments of non-codified reporting requirements adopted
before 2009.
d) Modifies the requirements on 14 reports to make the
process more manageable and effective.
2)Requires, unless otherwise specified, that reports submitted
to the Legislature by UC, CSU, and CCC be delivered to the
Senate and Assembly budget subcommittees on education, the
Senate Education and Assembly Higher Education policy
committees, the Legislative Analyst's Office, the Office of
the Secretary of Education, and the Department of Finance.
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3)Authorizes, unless otherwise specified, the submission of
reports in Portable Document Format or comparable electronic
format.
4)Declares legislative intent that:
a) Non-codified requests for reports from UC, CSU, and CCC
adopted prior to 2009, including provisional or
supplemental language in budget acts adopted prior to 2009,
have been subsumed, where appropriate, within statute by
this bill;
b) Nothing in this bill shall prevent the Legislature from
adopting new reporting requirements of any kind;
c) UC, CSU, and CCC are expected to fully respond to all
statutory reporting requirements by the stated deadlines;
and,
d) The 2010-11 Budget Act incorporate modifications made by
this bill to three required reports.
EXISTING LAW : Establishes UC, CSU, and CCC as the three public
postsecondary education segments and requires the segments to
report to the Legislature on various issues.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown but potential savings to the segments
by reducing the number of required reports and by allowing the
reports to be submitted electronically.
COMMENTS : Background : UC, CSU, and CCC are collectively
required to provide an average of 115 annual reports to the
Legislature. Some of these reports have become obsolete or
duplicative, while others do not provide clear direction to the
segments as to the content or legislative recipients of the
report. Further, previous budget bill language requires many of
these reports, and the applicability of supplemental budget
language from previous years is unclear.
Purpose of this bill : This bill is intended to restructure and
reorganize existing reporting requirements to provide greater
clarity and prioritization for the segments and more effective,
manageable, and transparent reporting to the Legislature.
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How were these reports identified ? Last year, UC, CSU, and CCC
provided lists of their
respective reporting requirements to a work group comprised of
legislative staff, the Department of Finance, the Legislative
Analyst's Office, and the California Postsecondary Education
Commission. This bill includes the work group's consensus
recommendations.
Amendments in the works : An almost identical measure, AB 1821
(Brownley) of 2008, was vetoed by the Governor, due to concerns
that it would result in significant state-reimbursable mandated
costs on CCC by placing reporting requirements from previous
budget acts in statute. The author is working with the
Department of Finance and CCC on amendments to eliminate these
costs while still streamlining CCC reporting requirements.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
California Postsecondary Education Commission
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960