BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair
SB 1022 (Huff) - Public Postsecondary Education: Labor Market
Information
Amended: April 22, 2014 Policy Vote: Education 6-0
Urgency: No Mandate: No
Hearing Date: May 5, 2014 Consultant: Jacqueline
Wong-Hernandez
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary: SB 1022 requires the California State University
(CSU), and requests the University of California (UC), to
provide labor market prematriculation and outcome information on
their graduates, as specified, and to make this information
publicly available on the internet websites of the respective
segments by June 1, 2016. This bill further requires the
information to be updated annually by June 1 of each year.
Fiscal Impact:
CSU: One-time costs of up to $100,000 (General Fund), to
collect and publish required data on the CSU website by June
1, 2016. Annually updating the data would result in a minor
workload increase.
UC: Minor ongoing workload increase for the UC to collect,
publish, and annually update the required data.
Employment Development Department (EDD): Potential workload
to amend existing contracts with the UC and CSU would be
minor and absorbable to the department.
Background: Existing law requires the EDD director to permit the
use of any information in his or her possession to the extent
necessary for any of several specified purposes, including:
To enable the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges (CCC) to obtain quarterly wage data, on students
who have attended one or more community colleges, to assess
the impact of education on the employment and earnings of
students, to conduct the annual evaluation of
district-level and individual college performance in
achieving priority educational outcomes, and to submit
required reports to the Legislature and the Governor.
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To enable the California Department of Education, the
UC, the CSU, and the Chancellor of the CCC, pursuant to
specified federal law requirements to obtain quarterly wage
data, commencing July 1, 2010, on students who have
attended their respective systems to assess the impact of
education on the employment and earnings of those students,
to conduct the annual analysis of district-level and
individual district or postsecondary education system
performance in achieving priority educational outcomes, and
to submit the required reports to the Legislature and the
Governor.
This information is to be provided to the extent permitted by
federal statutes and regulations. (Unemployment Insurance Code
1095)
Proposed Law: This bill requires the CSU, and requests the UC,
to publicly provide labor market prematriculation and outcome
information relating to their graduates. Specifically, the
information must include, but not be limited to, salary
information by industry.
The information provided must use data that includes, but is not
limited to, information provided by the EDD and the segments'
own databases, and must meet all the following requirements: a)
be presented in terms of easily understood labor market
measures; b) be aggregated to the system-wide level and by
particular areas of study; and, c) provide data relating to
graduates one or two years and five years after graduation.
This bill further requires that the information be made publicly
available on the respective segments' internet websites no later
than June 1, 2016, and updated annually thereafter by June 1.
Staff Comments: The UC and CSU both have the authority to
implement the provisions of this bill without legislation. The
UC has indicated that is does not expect to incur significant
additional workload or costs to implement the bill. The CSU has
indicated that it intends to collect and publish online the
labor market information required in this bill, but that to do
so by June 1, 2016 would require an additional data staff person
dedicated to completing that work. Ongoing costs to update data
would be minor and absorbable.
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This bill specifically requires that the segments include data
provided by the EDD, which currently has agreements in place
with both the CSU and UC to provide wage data on a reimbursable
basis. This bill does not appear to impact the data already
being provided to the segments or manner in which it is
provided. The EDD has indicated, however, that the contracts may
require amendments to allow the CSU and UC to post EDD data on
their websites.