BILL ANALYSIS
SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Gloria Romero, Chair
2009-2010 Regular Session
BILL NO: AB 1182
AUTHOR: Brownley
AMENDED: April 30, 2009
FISCAL COMM: Yes HEARING DATE: June 17, 2009
URGENCY: No CONSULTANT:Kathleen Chavira
SUBJECT : Public Postsecondary Education: mandated reports.
SUMMARY
This bill eliminates some, and restructures and reorganizes
other, higher education reporting requirements of the
state's public universities and colleges to provide for
more effective, manageable, and transparent reporting to
the Legislature.
BACKGROUND
Current law establishes the three public postsecondary
education segments as the University of California (UC),
the California State University (CSU), and the California
Community Colleges (CCC).
Current law and the annual budget act, via supplemental or
provisional reporting language adopted therein, requires
the three public postsecondary education segments to report
to the Legislature a combined average of approximately 115
reports per year.
ANALYSIS
This bill revises current reporting requirements of the
University of California (UC), the California State
University (CSU), and the California Community Colleges
(CCC). Specifically, it:
1) Eliminates 19 existing reporting requirements.
2) Moves 39 non-codified reporting requirements
(primarily required by the Supplemental Report of past
Budget Acts) into statute.
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3) Stipulates that 10 other non-codified reporting
requirements are no longer in effect.
4) Modifies 14 reporting requirements.
5) Authorizes the electronic submission reports, unless
otherwise specified.
6) 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.
7) Authorizes, unless otherwise specified, the submission
of these reports in Portable Document Format or
comparable electronic format.
8) Declares legislative intent that:
a) The 2010-11 Budget Act incorporate
modifications made by this bill to three required
reports.
b) Non-codified requests for reports
from UC, CSU, and CCC adopted prior to 2008,
including those taking the form of provisional or
supplemental language in budget acts adopted
prior to 2008, have been subsumed, where
appropriate, within statute by this bill.
c) Nothing in this bill shall prevent
the Legislature from adopting new reporting
requirements of any kind.
d) UC, CSU and CCC are expected to
fully respond to all statutory reporting
requirements by the stated deadlines.
STAFF COMMENTS
1) Need for the bill . In order to promote transparency
and oversight, the Legislature has adopted various
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reporting requirements for the higher education
segments. Currently, the segments are required
collectively to provide an average of 115 reports each
year. Some of these requirements have either become
obsolete or duplicative; others do not provide clear
direction to the segments as to the content of the
report. Also, many of these requirements take the
form of provisional budget bill language that appears
in the budget act annually or supplemental report
language (SRL) from past budget acts. The
applicability of the SRL in subsequent years is
unclear. While the segments produce many of these
reports in a timely manner, some reports arrive late
or not at all. 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.
Additionally, the provisions of this bill should
result in reduced reporting-related costs for the
public higher education segments.
2) Source of the bill . Last year a months-long process
involving legislative staff, the Department of
Finance, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and the
California Public Postsecondary Education Commission
(CPEC) to review lists of reporting requirements
provided by the segments resulted in
AB 1821 (Brownley) which contained the work group's
consensus recommendations. This bill contains theses
same provisions, but has omitted several which
involved reporting by the California Community
Colleges and were objectionable to the Governor due to
the creation of state reimbursable mandates.
3) Prior legislation . This bill is substantively similar
to AB 1821 (Brownley, 2008) which was vetoed by the
Governor. The Governor's veto message read, in
pertinent part:
"While the intent to streamline reporting requirements
for the higher education segments is a laudable goal,
I understand this bill contains a drafting error.
Furthermore, as currently drafted, this bill would
likely result in significant state reimbursable
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mandated costs on the Community Colleges. I would be
willing to sign a bill in the next session that
addresses these concerns and directing my Department
of Finance to work with the appropriate Legislative
staff to this end."
This bill has been amended to address the Governor's
concerns.
SUPPORT
California Postsecondary Education Commission
OPPOSITION
None received.