BILL ANALYSIS �
AB 2309
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2309 (Hill)
As Amended June 27, 2012
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |69-5 |(May 29, 2012) |SENATE: |37-0 |(August 20, |
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Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.
SUMMARY : Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges (CCC), once sufficient funding becomes available,
to establish a competitive grant pilot program to evaluate a
public-private partnership model designed to accomplish specified
objectives relating to business development and job creation.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Requires 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 will
impose. Upon completion of the pilot program, this bill requires
specified entities to prepare a written summary that will be
posted on the community college district's Internet Web site, as
specified.
2)Provides that the pilot program only will be operative if the
Legislature appropriates funds expressly, or if sufficient private
funding is received, for purposes of this bill, whichever comes
first.
3)Repeals the pilot program on January 1, 2016.
The Senate amendments :
1)Authorize the CCC Board of Governors to establish a pilot program
to the evaluate a public-private partnership model related to
business development and job creation.
2)Change the title to the Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program.
3)Make technical and clarifying changes.
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AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill authorized the San Mateo County
Community College District, until January 1, 2016, to partner with
the San Mateo Chamber of Commerce Economic Development and Growth
Enterprise to establish the San Mateo Innovation Center Pilot
Program for purposes of helping early stage business ventures to
find funding or reach operating stability.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown. This bill is keyed non-fiscal by the
Legislative Counsel.
COMMENTS : According to the author, this bill seeks to address a
problem that individuals and small businesses often have taking
their company to the next level by helping early stage business
ventures with new ideas to either find early stage funding or to
reach the point of operating stability. The goal is to nurture job
growth since the state's small business development centers are
being scaled back through budget cuts.
Analysis prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
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