BILL ANALYSIS
AB 2086
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Date of Hearing: May 12, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 2086 (Coto) - As Amended: May 6, 2010
Policy Committee: Higher
EducationVote:9-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill requires postsecondary education institutions that
participate in the Cal-Grant program to provide information on
accessing licensing examination rates for the most recent
graduates of programs leading to employment for which passing a
state licensing examination is required, if such data is
available through the internet from the licensing or regulatory
agency. This bill also:
1)Stipulates that "provides" may include placement of a website
address, labeled as an access point to the required data, on
the institution's website where enrollment data is also
located, or on enrollment applications or other program
materials provided to prospective students.
2)Requires each postsecondary educational institution to certify
compliance with the above to the California Student Aid
Commission (CSAC).
FISCAL EFFECT
1)Minor one-time costs for University of California (UC) and
California State University (CSU) campuses offering programs
leading to state licensure to provide the required website
addresses to licensing agency examination results, and minor
ongoing costs for the campuses to certify compliance with
these requirements to CSAC.
2)Community college districts offering programs leading to state
licensure would incur minor non-reimbursable costs similar to
those for UC and CSU.
AB 2086
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COMMENTS
1)Purpose . According to the author, students, parents,
taxpayers, policymakers, and employers should know if the
higher education institutions and programs they attend,
support, and/or finance are effective in terms of student
learning and imparting the skills necessary to be successful
in the workplace. This bill, which is sponsored by Ed Voice,
is intended to ensure that one measure of the effectiveness of
postsecondary programs-the passage rates for professional
licensure examinations-is made publicly available by the
institutions.
2)Licensing entities that publish data : This bill provides that
the data disclosure requirement is contingent upon the
licensing entity publishing that data. It is unclear the
degree to which this requirement would ensure data is made
available to students and the public, as it does not appear
that many licensing entities currently disclose licensure
examination passage rates based on school of graduation. The
Board of Registered Nursing (BRN), however, publishes a table,
categorizing by academic year and school of graduation, the
results of graduates who have taken the National Council
Licensure Examination.
Analysis Prepared by : Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081