BILL NUMBER: AB 2203	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Solorio

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 66723 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2203, as amended, Solorio. Public postsecondary education:
 student transfer.   t   ext policies.

   Existing law establishes the 3 segments of public postsecondary
education in this state. These segments include the California State
University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California
State University, the University of California, which is administered
by the Regents of the University of California, and the California
Community Colleges, which are administered by the Board of Governors
of the California Community Colleges.
   Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature that the
regents, the trustees, and the board of governors have as a
fundamental policy the maintenance of an effective student transfer
system. Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature that the
3 segments pursue the development of transfer agreement programs
that specify the curricular requirements that must be met, and the
level of achievement that must be attained, by community college
students in order for those students to transfer to the campus,
undergraduate college, or major of choice in the public 4-year
segments.
   The bill would  require the California Community Colleges and
the California State University, and  urge the University of
California  ,  to revise  the policy contained in
its Transferable Course Agreement update letter that requires
  their policies to require  the main text for a
proposed transfer  or general education  course to be
 dated   published  within 7 years of the
submission of the course for transfer  or general education 
credit, instead of 5 years.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 66723 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   66723.  The  California Community Colleges and the California
State University shall, and the  University of California is
urged to  revise the policy contained in its Transferable
Course Agreement update letter that requires   , revise
their policies to require  the main text for a proposed transfer
 or general education  course to be  dated
  published  within seven years of the submission
of the course for transfer  or general education  credit,
instead of five years.