BILL NUMBER: AB 965	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dickinson

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 87482.65 to the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 965, as introduced, Dickinson. Community colleges: full-time
faculty hiring.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, which
are administered by the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges. Community colleges are one segment of public
postsecondary education in this state.
   Existing law provides incentives to encourage community college
districts to employ full-time instructors to teach at least 75% of
the hours of credit instruction offered.
   This bill would require community college districts that have less
than 75% of their hours of credit instruction taught by full-time
instructors to apply a portion of their funds allocated to
apportionment growth according to specified formulas. This
requirement would apply only if prescribed conditions are met.
   Because this bill would impose a duty on community college
districts by requiring programmatic changes relating to full-time
faculty instructors, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 87482.65 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   87482.65.  Notwithstanding Section 87482.6, community college
districts that have less than 75 percent of their hours of credit
instruction taught by full-time instructors shall apply a portion of
their funds allocated to apportionment growth as follows:
   (a) Districts that, in the prior fiscal year, had between 58
percent and 75 percent of their hours of credit instruction taught by
full-time instructors shall apply a minimum of 33 percent of their
growth for apportionment allocation, as necessary, in the succeeding
year to advance toward the 75 percent standard.
   (b) Districts that, in the prior fiscal year, had less than 58
percent of their hours of credit instruction taught by full-time
instructors shall apply a minimum of 40 percent of their growth for
apportionment allocation, as necessary, in the succeeding year to
advance toward the 75 percent standard.
   (c) This section shall apply only in years in which the California
Community Colleges receive at least 2 percent in growth for
apportionment and the board of governors did not order an increase in
the Faculty Obligation Number pursuant to Section 51025 of Title 5
of the California Code of Regulations. This obligation shall not
apply in years in which the California Community Colleges were
allocated funds for apportionment growth, but those funds were
deferred until a subsequent year.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.