BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 1182 (Brownley)
As Amended September 4, 2009
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |73-0 |(May 14, 2009) |SENATE: |37-0 |(September 9, |
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Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.
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 45 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 20 of the existing higher education reporting
requirements, spread among the three segments.
b) Moves 34 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 10 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
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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.
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; and,
c) UC, CSU, and CCC are expected to fully respond to all
statutory reporting requirements by the stated deadlines.
The Senate amendments :
1)Move six reports from statute back to Budget Bill Language.
2)Delete two obsolete UC reporting requirements.
3)Delete legislative intent language regarding modification of
two CSU reports in the 2010-11 Budget Act.
4)Make clarifying and technical changes.
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.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill was substantially similar
to the version that passed the Senate.
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 : UC, CSU, and CCC are collectively required to provide
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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.
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,
as well as the concerns raised by the Governor in his veto of a
similar bill last year-AB 1821 (Brownley).
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960
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