BILL NUMBER: AB 1895	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ruskin

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2010

   An act to amend Section 66003 of the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1895, as introduced, Ruskin. Postsecondary education: Donahoe
Higher Education Act.
   Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets
forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's
public and independent segments of higher education, and their
respective institutions of higher education, in the context of the
goals of the Master Plan for Higher Education in California. Among
other things, the act expresses legislative intent to outline in
statute the broad policy and programmatic goals of the master plan
and to expect the higher education segments to be accountable for
attaining those goals. The act also expresses legislative intent that
the governing boards of the higher education segments be given ample
discretion in implementing policies and programs necessary to attain
those goals.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
expressions of legislative intent relative to attaining the goals of
the Master Plan for Higher Education.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 66003 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   66003.  It is the intent of the Legislature to outline in statute
the broad policy and programmatic goals of the  master plan
  Master Plan for Higher Education  and to expect
the higher education segments to be accountable for attaining those
goals. However, consistent with the spirit of the original master
plan and the subsequent updates, it is the intent of the Legislature
that the governing boards  of the segments of higher education
 be given ample discretion in implementing policies and programs
necessary to attain those goals.