BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair
AB 2558 (Williams) - Community College: Faculty and Staff
Development
Amended: June 18, 2014 Policy Vote: Education 6-0
Urgency: No Mandate: No
Hearing Date: June 30, 2014
Consultant: Jacqueline Wong-Hernandez
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary: AB 2558 establishes the Community College
Professional Development (CCPD) Program and provides that if
funds are provided for this purpose, all employees, both faculty
and staff, are eligible to receive professional development
opportunities.
Fiscal Impact:
Substantial cost pressure to fully fund the CCPD Program.
Background: Existing law establishes the Community College
Faculty and Staff Development (CCFSD) Fund, administered by the
California Community College Chancellor's Office (CCCCO), to
provide state General Fund to community colleges for the purpose
of supporting locally developed and implemented faculty and
staff development programs. (Education Code � 87150)
Existing law also authorizes the Board of Governors (BOG) to
annually allocate funds appropriated for development to each
community college district whose chief executive officer has
submitted to the Chancellor an affidavit that includes:
1) A statement that each campus within the district has an
advisory committee, composed of administrators, faculty,
and staff representatives, which has assisted in the
assessment of the faculty and staff development needs and
in the design of the plan to meet those needs;
2) A campus human development resources plan completed for
the current and subsequent fiscal years; and
3) A report of the actual expenditures for faculty and
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staff development for the preceding year. (Education Code
� 87151)
Proposed Law: This bill renames the CCFSD Fund, to the CCPD
Program, and provides that the BOG shall allocate funds, when
appropriated for the CCPD Program, only to a community college
district whose chief executive officer has submitted to the
Chancellor an affidavit that includes specified requirements.
Specifically, this bill:
1) Provides that any available funding shall be allocated
to the community college districts that provide
professional development opportunities to both faculty and
staff. Funding shall be disbursed in accordance with rules
and regulations adopted by the BOG.
2) Provides that community college districts that receive
CCPD Program funds shall include the employee's time used
participating in that program in the employee's
contractually obligated hours.
3) Makes technical and clarifying changes to existing law,
as specified.
Staff Comments: This bill renames, and establishes new
requirements for, the current CCFSD Fund. The CCFSD Fund has not
received a budget appropriation since 2002. The CCCCO requested
$8 million (General Fund) in the Budget for the CCFSD Fund, but
that request was not adopted as part of the 2014 Budget Act.
Making program adjustments to a Fund that has not been active
since 2002 creates additional cost pressure to fund the new
program.