BILL NUMBER: SB 1416	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Rubio

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act relating to public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1416, as introduced, Rubio. Public postsecondary education:
construction of new medical school.
   Existing law establishes the system of public postsecondary
education in this state, consisting of 3 segments: the University of
California, the California State University, and the California
Community Colleges. Existing law provides that the University of
California has exclusive jurisdiction in public higher education over
instruction in the profession of law and over graduate instruction
in the professions of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would provide for the establishment and construction
of a new medical school in this state.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would provide for the establishment and construction
of a new medical school in this state.