BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair
2385 (J. Perez)
Hearing Date: 08/02/2010 Amended: 07/15/2010
Consultant: Dan Troy Policy Vote: ED 7-1
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BILL SUMMARY: AB 2385 would establish the Pilot Program for
Innovative Nursing and Allied Health Care Profession Education
at the California Community Colleges to be administered by the
CCC Chancellor's Office. Under this program, up to five
campuses would be selected by the CCC Chancellor to offer pilot
programs that test innovative delivery models and expand student
capacity in health care occupations for which there is a
substantial labor market demand. The program would sunset on
January 1, 2018.
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Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Fund
Pilot project $500 to $1,000,
annually General*
for five years
Evaluation $85 General
*Counts toward meeting the Proposition 98 minimum funding
guarantee
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STAFF COMMENTS: This bill meets the criteria for referral to the
Suspense
According to the author, most current associate degree nursing
and allied health care profession (i.e. fields in the health
profession distinct from medicine, nursing, dentistry, such as
kinesiology, audiology, dieticians, etc.) courses are offered
over two academic years and require the completion of 70 units
in program courses, assuming that the student has met all of the
prerequisite requirements and is ready to start the program.
The stated goal of the bill is to pilot innovative program
delivery and curriculum models to enable students to earn
degrees and enter the workforce as quickly as possible and
expand the state's capacity to train a qualified health
professional workforce without compromising the integrity of
program and licensure requirements.
This pilot created by this bill would be administered by the
Chancellor's Office (CO) of the California Community Colleges
and would include up to five campuses. The participant colleges
would test innovative program delivery models to expand the
capacity to offer health care training for students in
occupations for there is strong demand. The bill requires the
CO to pursue a variety of funding models to help support the
administration and delivery of the programs, and would develop a
request for application for colleges to participate commencing
on or after the 2011-12 academic year, contingent on resources.
Among other criteria, the CO would be required to select, to the
extent possible, campuses that geographically distributed
throughout the state, and may give consideration to existing
innovative programs. The bill states the
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intent to have the program funded through a combination of state
apportionment funding, employer-based partnerships, federal
grants, and philanthropic resources. The CO would provide for
an independent evaluation of the program and report findings and
recommendations to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2017.
Operation of the pilot would likely entail costs of several
hundred thousand dollars per campus, likely resulting costs in
the millions over the course of the pilot. Assuming a costs of
$100,000 to $200,000 per campus each year, costs would range
from $2.5 million to $5 million over five years. Additionally,
the CO estimates that costs for the evaluation would be
approximately $85,000 (one time) while administrative workload
would be absorbed within the costs of existing personnel. As
specified in the bill, the CO will seek a variety of sources to
offset costs.