BILL ANALYSIS
AB 1713
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Date of Hearing: March 16, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION
Anthony Portantino, Chair
AB 1713 (Furutani) - As Introduced: February 2, 2010
AS PROPOSED TO BE AMENDED (RN# 1007371)
SUBJECT : Public education: reporting requirements.
SUMMARY : Revises the reporting requirements of the California
Community Colleges (CCC). Specifically, this bill :
1)Combines CCC reports on concurrent enrollment and special
admits into one report to the Legislature and changes the due
date from November 1 to March 1.
2)Changes the due date from May 1 to July 1 for the CCC report
to the Legislature on the amount of full-time equivalent
students (FTES) claimed by each district for career
development and college preparation courses and classes.
3)Requires the CCC report to the Legislature on the number of
students served by the Extended Opportunity Program and
Services (EOPS) be submitted biennially instead of annually.
4)Removes three obsolete reporting and consulting requirements.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Background : In order to promote transparency and
oversight, the Legislature has adopted various reporting
requirements for its higher education segments. However, as the
number of reports mounted, questions arose about the usefulness
of these reports to the state and their resource burden on the
segments.
Report streamlining efforts : AB 1182 (Brownley), Chapter 386,
Statutes of 2009, eliminated, restructured, and reorganized 45
reports to the Legislature that are required of the University
of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and
CCC. AB 1182 was the product of a work group comprised of
legislative staff, the Department of Finance, the Legislative
Analyst's Office, and the California Postsecondary Education
Commission and included the work group's consensus
recommendations on the reporting requirements provided by UC,
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CSU, and CCC, as well as the concerns raised by the Governor in
his veto of a similar bill-AB 1821 (Brownley) of 2008. In
addition, AB 1585 (Committee on Accountability and
Administrative Review), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2010, modified
the list of state agency reports maintained by the Legislative
Counsel.
Need for this bill :
1)Consolidating the reports on concurrent enrollment and special
admits into one report to the Legislature and changing the due
date, were included in AB 1182 last year; however, the
provision was deleted due to late opposition from the
Department of Finance.
2)The FTES report is based on FTES data that is not available
until April 15 of each year; so while a May 1 report date is
possible, the CCC Chancellor's office prefers a July 1 due
date since there are numerous other reports that use FTES data
that are due around May 1.
3)Three of the reporting requirements are obsolete and should be
deleted.
EOPS report change : According to the sponsor, the CCC Board of
Governors, the EOPS report is a significant administrative
workload, thus the change from an annual to a biennial report.
Committee staff was not provided with substantiating data, so
the Committee may wish to request additional information before
approving this change.
Author's amendments : The author will propose amendments to
delete Section 1 of this bill, which would exempt CCC from
reporting on its participation in the School Employees Fund.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
(sponsor)
Opposition
None on file
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Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960