BILL NUMBER: AB 2309 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 27, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 2, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 29, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Hill
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Beall)
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
An act to add and repeal Article 7 (commencing with Section 79220)
of Chapter 9 of Part 48 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education
Code, relating to community colleges.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2309, as amended, Hill. Community colleges: San Mateo
Innovation Center Public-Private Partnership
Pilot Program.
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.
This bill would authorize the San Mateo County Community
College District to partner with the San Mateo Area Chamber of
Commerce on the Economic Development and Growth Enterprise initiative
board of governors, once sufficient funding becomes
available, to establish a competitive grant pilot program to
evaluate a public-private partnership model through the
establishment of the San Mateo Innovation Center Pilot Program, which
would be designed to accomplish specified objectives
relating to business development and job creation. If they
agree to establish a pilot program, the bill would require the San
Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce to enter into a partnership agreement
with the San Mateo County Community College District, which would be
required to do specified things for the purpose of implementing the
pilot program. The bill would require the board of
governors to select partnering community college districts and
private entities to participate in the pilot program that best
demonstrate the ability to fulfill those objectives and specified
agreement requirements that the bill would impose. Upon
completion of the pilot program, the bill would require a
specified entity entities to
prepare a written summary that would be posted on the
Economic Development and Growth Enterprise's community
college district's Internet Web site, as specified.
The bill would provide that the pilot program only would be
operative if the Legislature appropriates funds expressly , or
if sufficient private funding is received, for purposes of this
bill, or if sufficient private funding is received,
whichever comes first. The bill would repeal the pilot
program on January 1, 2016.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the San Mateo County Community
College District.
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. Article 7 (commencing with Section 79220) is added to
Chapter 9 of Part 48 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code,
to read:
Article 7. San Mateo Innovation Center
Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program
79220. (a) The San Mateo County Community College
District may partner with the San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce on
the Economic Development and Growth Enterprise initiative
board of governors may establish, once sufficient funding for
this purpose becomes available, a competitive grant pilot program
to evaluate a public-private partnership model through
the establishment of the San Mateo Innovation Center Pilot Program,
which shall be designed to accomplish all of the following
objectives:
(1) Promote business development and job creation by helping early
stage business ventures with new ideas to either find early stage
funding or to reach the point of operating stability.
(2) Leverage the underutilized infrastructure and nascent
entrepreneurship programs of the community college system to sponsor
programs that encourage and reward creativity, collaboration, and
innovation.
(3) Recruit and coordinate businesses and investors from the local
community to provide funding, sponsorships, and internships.
(b) The San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce shall enter into a
partnership agreement with the San Mateo County Community College
District for the purpose of implementing this article if they agree
to establish a pilot program. The agreement shall, at a minimum, do
all of the following:
(b) The board of governors shall select partnering community
college districts and private entities to participate in the pilot
program that best demonstrate the ability to fulfill the objectives
specified in subdivision (a) and the agreement requirements specified
in subdivision (c).
(c) A community college district and a private entity that are
selected to participate in the pilot program as partners shall enter
into an agreement to, at a minimum, do all of the following:
(1) Identify the administration and management structure of the
pilot program.
(2) Define the scope of the pilot program.
(3) Set the beginning, end, and other strategic dates of the pilot
program for the purpose of evaluating the public-private partnership
model.
(4) Identify the process that will be used, and the key
stakeholders who will be engaged, in the development, testing, and
refining of the public-private partnership model.
(5) Identify entities to be responsible for preparing the written
summary required pursuant to subdivision (c).
(6) Identify financial and in-kind contributions each party makes
to the pilot program.
(c)
(d) (1) Upon the completion of
the pilot program, the entity entities
identified pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) shall
do both of the following:
(1) Prepare
prepare a written summary of findings
and recommendations for, and a description of, the public-private
partnership model to be posted on the Economic Development
and Growth Enterprise's community college district's
Internet Web site.
(2) Within 30 days of the information being posted pursuant to
paragraph (1), the community college district shall
provide letters to the Dean of the California Community Colleges'
Economic and Workforce Development Program, the Director of the
Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, and the
relevant policy committees of the Legislature notifying them of the
posting.
79221. This article shall be operative only if the Legislature
appropriates funds expressly , or if sufficient private funding
is received, for purposes of this article, or if
sufficient private funding is received by the Economic Development
and Growth Enterprise, whichever comes first.
79222. This article shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that
a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made
applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the
California Constitution because of the need to create a temporary
pilot program to promote business development and job creation in a
community college district that offers a business friendly
environment and special entrepreneurial curricula.