BILL NUMBER: AB 2602	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Conway

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to relating to community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2602, as introduced, Conway. Community colleges: agricultural
career technical education.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary
education in this state. Existing law establishes community college
districts, administered by a governing board, throughout the state,
and authorizes these districts to provide instruction to students at
the community college campuses maintained by the districts.
   Existing law creates within the State Department of Education an
agricultural career technical education unit to assist school
districts in the establishment and maintenance of agricultural career
technical education programs.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to develop and adopt uniform, objective, and high-quality
criteria and standards for evaluating programs of instruction in
agricultural career technical education within the California
Community Colleges.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to develop and adopt uniform, objective, and high-quality
criteria and standards for evaluating programs of instruction in
agricultural career technical education within the California
Community Colleges.