BILL NUMBER: SB 599 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 9, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 23, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 13, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 30, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 20, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 13, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Senator Negrete McLeod
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to amend Section 1973 of, and to add Section 27.6 to, the
Business and Professions Code, and to add Section 14206.1 to the
Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce development, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 599, as amended, Negrete McLeod. Workforce development.
(1) The former Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education
Reform Act of 1989, which became inoperative on July 1, 2007, and was
repealed on January 1, 2008, was administered by the Bureau for
Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education in the Department of
Consumer Affairs. The former act generally effectuated legislative
intent to ensure minimum standards of instructional quality and
institutional stability in private postsecondary educational
institutions and required the bureau, among other things, to review
and investigate all institutions, programs, and courses of
instruction approved under the act.
This bill would require the successor agency to the former Bureau
for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education in the Department
of Consumer Affairs to transmit any available data regarding school
performance, as prescribed, it receives from any schools under its
jurisdiction to the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
However, the bill would make this provision operative only if AB 48
of the 2009-10 Regular Session is enacted and becomes effective on or
before January 1, 2010, and creates a successor agency to the former
Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education.
(2) The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides for
workforce investment activities, including activities in which states
may participate. Existing law contains various programs for job
training and employment investment, including work incentive and
employment training outreach programs. The act also, establishes
local workforce boards to develop, implement, and coordinate local
workforce investment plans, as prescribed. Existing law provides that
it is the duty of the local board, among other things to, coordinate
workforce investment activities in the local area, and take
specified actions to promote economic development and job training
programs in the local area.
This bill, for purposes of disbursing economic recovery funds
recently made available as part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 to workforce development programs, would
provide that local workforce investment boards may work directly with
institutions of higher education and other training providers,
including accredited private postsecondary
institutions that participate in certain federal student
financial aid programs , to quickly design education and
training to fit the needs of the job seekers and employers they are
serving. This provision would be operative only if AB 48 of
the 2009-10 Regular Session is enacted and becomes effective on or
before January 1, 2010, and creates a successor agency to the former
Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education.
(3) Existing law creates the California Dental Corps Loan
Repayment Program of 2002 in the Dental Board of California, and
transfers $3,000,000 from the State Dentistry Fund to the Dentally
Underserved Account of that fund for 3 specified fiscal years,
through the 2005-06 fiscal year for purposes of the program. The
program assists dentists who practice in an underserved area with
loan repayment pursuant to an agreement between the board and the
dentist, as specified.
This bill would require the board, on or after July 1, 2010, to
extend the program and distribute the money remaining in the account
until July 1, 2012.
(4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 27.6 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
27.6. The successor agency to the Bureau for Private
Postsecondary and Vocational Education shall transmit any available
data regarding school performance, including, but not limited to,
attendance and graduation rates, it receives from any schools under
its jurisdiction to the California Postsecondary Education
Commission.
SEC. 2. Section 1973 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
1973. (a) The Dentally Underserved Account is hereby created in
the State Dentistry Fund.
(b) The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) is hereby
authorized to be expended from the State Dentistry Fund on this
program. These moneys are appropriated as follows:
(1) One million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred from the
State Dentistry Fund to the Dentally Underserved Account on July 1,
2003. Of this amount, sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) shall be
used by the Dental Board of California in the 2003-04 fiscal year for
operating expenses necessary to manage this program.
(2) One million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred from the
State Dentistry Fund to the Dentally Underserved Account on July 1,
2004. Of this amount, sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) shall be
used by the Dental Board of California in the 2004-05 fiscal year for
operating expenses necessary to manage this program.
(3) One million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred from the
State Dentistry Fund to the Dentally Underserved Account on July 1,
2005. Of this amount, sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) shall be
used by the Dental Board of California in the 2005-06 fiscal year for
operating expenses necessary to manage this program.
(c) Funds placed into the Dentally Underserved Account shall be
used by the board to repay the loans per agreements made with
dentists.
(1) Funds paid out for loan repayment may have a funding match
from foundation or other private sources.
(2) Loan repayments may not exceed one hundred five thousand
dollars ($105,000) per individual licensed dentist.
(3) Loan repayments may not exceed the amount of the educational
loans incurred by the dentist applicant.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 11005 of the Government Code, the
board may seek and receive matching funds from foundations and
private sources to be placed into the Dentally Underserved Account.
The board also may contract with an exempt foundation for the receipt
of matching funds to be transferred to the Dentally Underserved
Account for use by this program.
(e) Funds in the Dentally Underserved Account appropriated in
subdivision (b) or received pursuant to subdivision (d) are
continuously appropriated for the repayment of loans per agreements
made between the board and the dentists.
(f) On or after July 1, 2010, the board shall extend the
California Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program of 2002 and distribute
the money remaining in the account until July 1, 2012. Regulations
that were adopted by the board for the purposes of the program shall
apply.
SEC. 3. Section 14206.1 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
14206.1. For purposes of disbursing economic recovery funds made
available as part of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) to workforce development programs,
local workforce investment boards may work directly with institutions
of higher education and other training providers, including
accredited private postsecondary institutions that
participate in the federal student financial aid programs under Title
IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and comply with applicable
regulations pursuant to the federal act , to quickly design
education and training to fit the needs of the job seekers and
employers they are serving.
SEC. 4. Sections 1 and 3 Section 1 of
this act shall only become operative if Assembly Bill 48 is also
enacted and becomes effective on or before January 1, 2010, and
creates a successor agency to the former Bureau for Private
Postsecondary and Vocational Education.
SEC. 5. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to disburse economic recovery funds recently made
available by Congress as part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 to workforce development programs in the
state and to extend the operation of a dental assistance program as
quickly as possible, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.