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          Date of Hearing:   May 14, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                    AB 1969 (Levine) - As Amended:  April 1, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              Higher  
          EducationVote:12-1

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the state's three segments of public higher  
          education to coordinate when procuring technology and software.  
          Specifically, this bill:

             1)   Requires the Chancellors of the California Community  
               Colleges (CCC) and the California State University, and  
               requests the President of the University of California (UC)  
               to develop coordination benchmarks for measuring the level  
               of coordination undertaken.

             2)   Provides that the benchmarks are to include:

             a)   Coordination among the segments regarding investment in  
               new technologies:

               i)     For campus administration and management.
               ii)    To assist in the delivery of academic resources,  
                 such as online library resources.
               iii)   For delivery of student services.

             b)   For purchase or upgrade of campus or systemwide  
               technology platforms, consider those that offer greater  
               capacity for coordination among the segments.

             3)   Requires the segments to develop procedures to  
               coordinate collection and sharing of student performance  
               data, consistent with state and federal privacy laws.

           FISCAL EFFECT  









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          Given the lack of specificity in this bill, the cost impacts are  
          unclear, but would likely require from one to several staff  
          positions per segment at a total cost in the low hundreds of  
          thousands to the low millions of dollars. Moreover, given the  
          decentralized nature and governance of the community colleges,  
          it may not be practical to include them in such coordination  
          efforts, with the exception of systems that would be used by the  
          Chancellor's Office.

          To the extent successful coordination and implementation of new  
          systems takes place that would not have otherwise occurred  
          absent this bill, the segments may realize significant  
          administrative and procurement-related cost savings.

           


          COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . According to the author, "In the past, services and  
          resources across and within the three segments have developed in  
          silos.  That has resulted in both duplicative work and posed  
          challenges for information to be shared."  The author contends  
          that this bill would allow for "cross communication doors  
          between the segments to remain open or even be opened in the  
          future."

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081