Senate Bill No. 1247

Introduced by Senator Lieu

(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Bonilla)

February 20, 2014

An act to amend Section 94950 of the Education Code, relating to private postsecondary education, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1247, as introduced, Lieu. Private postsecondary education: California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.

Existing law, the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, provides for the regulation of private postsecondary educational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law repeals that act on January 1, 2015.

This bill would instead repeal that act on January 1, 2019, thus extending the operation of the act by 4 years.

The act establishes the Student Tuition Recovery Fund under the administration of the bureau, and establishes that the moneys in this fund are continuously appropriated to the bureau for specified purposes.

By extending the operation of this continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

Under existing law, the act specifies conduct by regulated institutions that, if undertaken, is a crime.

Because this bill would extend the application of those criminal provisions, it would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 94950 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

94950.  

This chapter shall remain in effect only until January
1, begin delete 2015 end delete begin insert 2019 end insert , and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, begin delete 2015 end delete begin insert 2019 end insert , deletes or
extends that date.

SEC. 2.  

No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of
the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within
the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.