BILL ANALYSIS �
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GOVERNOR'S VETO
AB 2309 (Hill)
As Amended June 27, 2012
2/3 vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |69-5 |(May 29, 2012) |SENATE: |37-0 |(August 20, |
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|ASSEMBLY: |75-2 |(August 22, | | | |
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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 :
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1)Authorize the CCC Board of Governors to establish a pilot
program to 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.
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.
GOVERNOR'S VETO MESSAGE :
"Since I have now signed SB 1402, which reauthorizes the
California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development
Program, the objectives sought by this bill can be achieved
under current law."
Analysis prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960
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