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ACCCA Legislative Update

Status as of: March 21, 2017

Bill No./ Author Title Position Current Status Page

Affordability

AB 17 Holden

Transit Pass Program: Free or Reduced-Fare Transit Passes

Assembly Transportation Committee 5

*AB 19 Santiago Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Assembly Higher Education Committee 5

AB 95 Jones-Sawyer

Public Postsecondary Education: California State University: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program

Assembly Higher Education Committee 5

*AB 204 Medina Community Colleges: Waiver of Enrollment Fees Assembly Appropriations Committee 5

AB 343 McCarty

Public Postsecondary Education: Holders of Certain Special Immigrant Visas

Assembly Higher Education Committee 6

AB 370 Rodriguez

Student Financial Aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards

Assembly Higher Education Committee 6

AB 393 Quirk-Silva

Public Postsecondary Education: Mandatory System Wide Fees and Tuition

Assembly Higher Education Committee 6

AB 559 Santiago Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Assembly Higher Education Committee 7

*AB 1356 Eggman Renewing the California Dream Act Assembly Desk 7

*SB 68 Lara

Public Postsecondary Education: Exemption from Nonresident Tuition

Senate Education Committee 7

SB 573 Lara Student Financial Aid: Work-Study Programs Senate Rules Committee 7

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SB 727 Galgiani

Public Postsecondary Education: Instructional Materials: Innovative Pricing

Senate Education Committee 8

SB 769 Hill Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program Senate Education Committee 8

Employees

AB 5 Gonzalez Fletcher

Employers: Opportunity to Work Act Assembly Labor and Employment Committee 8

AB 52 Cooper

Public Employees: Orientation and Informational Programs: Exclusive Representatives

Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee 9

AB 168 Eggman Employers: Salary Information Assembly Desk 9

AB 310 Medina Part-Time Faculty Office Hours Assembly Higher Education Committee 9

AB 568 Gonzalez Fletcher

School and Community College Employees: Paid Maternity Leave

Assembly Higher Education Committee 10

AB 856 Levine

Public Postsecondary Education: Hiring Policy: Geographic and Socioeconomic Diversity

Assembly Higher Education Committee 10

AB 1651 Reyes

Community Colleges: Academic Employees: Paid Administrative Leave

Assembly Higher Education Committee 10

*ACR 32 Medina Community Colleges: Faculty Assembly Higher Education Committee 11

SB 32 Moorlach California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2018 Senate Public Employment and Retirement

Committee 11

SCA 8 Moorlach Public Employee Retirement Benefits Oppose Senate Public Employment and Retirement

Committee 12

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Governance and District Operations

SB 54 De León Law Enforcement: Sharing Data Senate Floor—Third Reading 12

Instruction

AB 276 Medina

Postsecondary Education: Report: Cybersecurity Education and Training Programs

Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee 12

AB 405 Irwin

Public Postsecondary Education: Community College Districts: Baccalaureate Degree Cybersecurity Pilot Program

Assembly Higher Education Committee 13

AB 705 Irwin

Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: Matriculation: Assessment

Assembly Higher Education Committee 13

SB 577 Dodd

Public Postsecondary Education: Community College Districts: Teacher Credentialing Programs of Professional Preparation

Senate Education Committee 13

Miscellaneous

AB 20 Kalra

Public Employee Retirement Systems: Divestment: Dakota Access Pipeline

Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee 14

AB 453 Limón Postsecondary Education: Student Hunger Assembly Desk 14

AB 1038 Bonta Postsecondary Education: Higher Education Policy Assembly Higher Education Committee 14

SB 25 Portantino Education: Integrated K-14 System Senate Rules Committee 15

SB 307 Nguyen

Postsecondary Education: Student Housing Insecurity and Homelessness

Senate Rules Committee 15

SB 472 Nielsen Postsecondary Education Senate Rules Committee 15

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State Budget and Education Finance

SB 539 De León The Community College Student Achievement Program Senate Education Committee 16

Student Services

*AB 21 Kalra

Public Postsecondary Education: Access to Higher Education for Every Student

Assembly Higher Education Committee 16

*AB 504 Medina

Community Colleges: Student Success and Support Program Funding

Assembly Higher Education Committee 17

AB 637 Medina Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans Assembly Higher Education Committee 17

AB 1567 Holden

Public Postsecondary Education: California State University: California Community Colleges: Foster Youth

Assembly Higher Education Committee 17

AB 1622 Low Student Support Services: Dream Resource Liaisons Assembly Higher Education Committee 17

SB 319 Nguyen Public Postsecondary Education: Remedial Coursework Senate Education Committee 18

*SB 478 Portantino

Public Postsecondary Education: Transfer of Community College Students to The California State University or University of California

Senate Education Committee 18

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Affordability AB 17 (Holden) Title: Transit Pass Program: Free or Reduced-Fare Transit Passes Status: Assembly Transportation Committee Position: Summary: This bill would create the Transit Pass Program to be administered by the Department of Transportation. Monies made available for the program, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would support transit pass programs that provide free or reduced-fare transit passes to specified pupils and students, including students attending a California community college who qualify for a Board of Governor fee waiver.

*AB 19 (Santiago) Amended: 3/16/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on March 16, 2017, would waive the per-unit fee, for one academic year, for first-time community college students who enroll in 12 or more semester units or the equivalent. “One academic year” would mean the total of the summer term that immediately precedes the first semester or quarter of the fall term and the two consecutive semesters or three quarters that immediately follow that summer term.

AB 95 (Jones-Sawyer) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: California State University: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: As introduced, this bill would require California State University (CSU) to establish a Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program with the goal of creating a model of articulation and coordination among K-12 schools, community colleges, and campuses of the CSU that will allow students to earn a baccalaureate degree for a total cost not exceeding $10,000, including the cost of textbooks and would focus on STEM degrees.

*AB 204 (Medina) Amended: 3/16/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Waiver of Enrollment Fees Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on March 16, 2017, would require the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to review, for general consistency, each community college district’s due process procedures, including any subsequent modifications of the procedures, adopted to appeal the loss of a fee waiver due to lack of minimum academic progress standards, and comment on the procedures. The bill would require that the district’s procedures allow for an appeal due to hardship based on geographic distance from an alternative community college at which the student would be eligible for a fee waiver.

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The bill would require each community college district to, at least once every three years, examine the impact of the minimum academic and progress standards and determine whether those standards have had a disproportionate impact on a specific class of students. If a disproportionate effect is found, the bill would require the community college district to include steps to address that impact in a student equity plan. AB 343 (McCarty) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Holders of Certain Special Immigrant Visas Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require a community college district to waive the fees of a student who has a special immigrant visa just as those fees are waived for refugees; the bill would also make those students eligible to apply for and participate in all student financial aid program and scholarships administered by a public postsecondary educational institution or the State of California, to the same extent as individuals who are admitted to the United States as refugees. SSC Comment: This bill is part of the “California Welcomes Refugees” legislative package introduced by Assembly Democrats that “builds upon California’s efforts to welcome and successfully integrate refugees from around the world.”

AB 370 (Rodriguez) Title: Student Financial Aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill, commencing with the 2018-19 award year, would require the Student Aid Commission (Commission) to calculate a target for Cal Grant A and B awards to be paid in an award year, estimate a take rate for awards by dividing the total number of awards paid by the total number of offers made during the three award years immediately preceding that award year, and estimate the number of award offers that the Commission may make to achieve the target for awards to be paid, as specified. The bill would also authorize the Commission to exceed the 25,750 award limit in an academic year when the number of acceptances exceeds 25,750, under specified conditions.

AB 393 (Quirk-Silva) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Mandatory System Wide Fees and Tuition Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: The bill would require that the amounts of tuition and mandatory system Wide fees that are charged to students of the California State University, and the amount of the enrollment fee charged to students of the California Community Colleges, not be increased from the amounts that were charged as of December 31, 2016, until the completion of the 2019-20 academic year.

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AB 559 (Santiago) Title: Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: The bill would require the Board of Governors, by January 1, 2019, to ensure a fee waiver application is available to be completed and submitted electronically by students at each community college.

*AB 1356 (Eggman) Title: Renewing the California Dream Act Status: Assembly Desk Position: Summary: This bill, called the “Renewing the California Dream” act, would charge a 1% tax on household incomes of $1,000,000 or more, resulting in about $2.2 billion according to the author. This revenue would then be deposited in the Higher Education Assistance Fund, created by the bill, and would be used to close the unfunded gap between existing aid programs and the cost of tuition and fees at California’s community colleges and public universities. SSC Comment: As of this writing, the bill is not yet in print. This summary is based upon information provided by the author’s office, which will be verified when the bill is updated.

*SB 68 (Lara) Amended: 3/13/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Exemption from Nonresident Tuition Status: Senate Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on March 13, 2017, would amend the statutes that exempt a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, from nonresident tuition at the California State University (CSU) and the California Community Colleges (CCC) if the student has a total of three or more years of attendance at California elementary or secondary schools, campuses of the CCCs, California adult schools, or a combination of those schools, and the student graduates from a California high school or attains the equivalent, attains an associate degree from a campus of the CCCs, or fulfills minimum transfer requirements established for the University of California or the CSU for students transferring from campuses of the CCCs.

SB 573 (Lara) Title: Student Financial Aid: Work-Study Programs Status: Senate Rules Committee Position: Summary: This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to require the California Community Colleges to create a service learning program that complements existing state and federal work-study programs and assists students with financial need.

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SB 727 (Galgiani) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Instructional Materials: Innovative Pricing Status: Senate Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would authorize a public postsecondary educational institution to adopt policies that allow for the use of innovative pricing techniques and payment options for textbooks and other instructional materials. The bill would require that innovative pricing techniques and payment options adopted pursuant to the bill include an opt-out provision for students, and further would require that they be adopted only if there is documented evidence that the proposed options, if they are adopted, would actually reduce the cost of the textbooks or other instructional materials for students taking a course.

SB 769 (Hill) Title: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program Status: Senate Education Committee Position: Summary: The bill would increase the maximum number of district baccalaureate degree pilot programs from 15 to 30 programs. The bill would also extend the operation of the statewide baccalaureate degree pilot program indefinitely and would no longer require a student to complete his or her degree by the end of the 2022-23 academic year. This bill would limit the existing prohibition against offering a baccalaureate degree program or program curricula already offered by the University of California or the California State University to a district’s baccalaureate degree program or program curricula that is offered within 100 miles of the California State University’s or the University of California’s baccalaureate degree program or program curricula.

Employees AB 5 (Gonzalez Fletcher) Title: Employers: Opportunity to Work Act Status: Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require an employer to offer additional hours of work to an existing employee who, in the employer’s reasonable judgment, has the skills and experience to perform the work before hiring any additional employees or subcontractors, including hiring an additional employee or subcontractor through the use of a temporary employment agency, staffing agency, or similar entity. An employer shall use a transparent and nondiscriminatory process to distribute the additional hours of work among existing employees. An employer shall not be required to offer an employee additional work hours if the employer would be required to compensate the employee with overtime compensation under any law or under a collective bargaining agreement.

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AB 52 (Cooper) Title: Public Employees: Orientation and Informational Programs: Exclusive Representatives Status: Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee Position: Summary: As introduced, this bill would require all public employers (including community college districts) to provide all employees with an orientation while permitting the exclusive representative of those employees to participate in the orientation. SSC Comment: Assembly Bill (AB) 52 is a simplified reintroduction of last year’s AB 2835, which ultimately was not approved by the Legislature. As introduced, AB 52 does not specify any additional requirements with respect to details and logistics of the orientation. When AB 2835 was being considered by the Brown Administration, there was no sense of urgency to approve legislation that appeared to be in response to a potentially unfavorable Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association Supreme Court case outcome. With a Republican-controlled White House and Senate, the threat of the nomination and confirmation of a conservative justice that may side against unions in a similar case is much more intense and will likely pave the way for AB 52’s approval in 2017.

AB 168 (Eggman) Title: Employers: Salary Information Status: Assembly Desk Position: Summary: As introduced, this bill would prohibit an employer from, orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, seeking salary history information, including, but not limited to, compensation and benefits, about an applicant for employment.

AB 310 (Medina) Title: Part-Time Faculty Office Hours Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require, on or before August 15 of each year, each community college district to report the total part-time faculty office hours paid divided by the total part-time faculty hours taught during the prior fiscal year and prominently post this information on its Internet website. SSC Comment: This is a reintroduction of last year’s Assembly Bill 2069, which was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown, who stated in part, “Although the bill's language is simple, gathering and reporting this information still has a real cost about 10% of the entire allocation of funding [in the State Budget] for part-time office hours. We would do better to spend the money on more office hours.”

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AB 568 (Gonzalez Fletcher) Title: School and Community College Employees: Paid Maternity Leave Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require the governing board of a school district and a community college district to provide for a paid leave of absence for an employee of the district who is required to be absent because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery therefrom.

AB 856 (Levine) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Hiring Policy: Geographic and Socioeconomic Diversity Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would declare it to be the policy of the state of California that a goal of the segments of public postsecondary education, when hiring and promoting high-profile administrative personnel, as defined, shall be that the persons hired to fill these positions shall be competent and well qualified, and as much as practicable, shall reflect the geographic and socioeconomic diversity of the population of the state of California. To that end, the governing board of each community college district shall ensure that when filling a high-profile administrative position, candidates from geographic areas and socioeconomic sectors of the state that are underrepresented among the administrative personnel of the district or campus for which the position is to be filled are given serious consideration. “Serious consideration” means, but is not necessarily limited to, that, to the extent practicable, district or campus filling the high-profile administrative position shall interview at least one candidate for that position from a geographic area or socioeconomic sector that is currently underrepresented among its administrative personnel.

AB 1651 (Reyes) Title: Community Colleges: Academic Employees: Paid Administrative Leave Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would prohibit an academic employee of a community college from being placed on paid administrative leave except for specified compelling reasons, including allegations of: • Misappropriation of an amount of funds or property that is not de minimis • An act that would constitute a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude • True threats of physical violence, as defined by law • Other serious and extreme behavior, or serious misconduct This bill would specify procedures to be followed when an academic employee of a community college is placed on paid administrative leave, including the convening of a hearing by the superintendent of the community college district. The bill would specify various procedural rights of the academic employee

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placed on paid leave for more than 90 days, including the right to receive a second hearing or to proceed to an expedited arbitration of any grievance contesting the continuation of the paid administrative leave. *ACR 32 (Medina) Title: Community Colleges: Faculty Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This measure would encourage the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified affected stakeholders, including faculty and students, to develop proposals for legislative consideration to address the longstanding challenges to achieving the goal of 75% of credit classroom instruction taught by full-time faculty and compensation equity for part-time faculty.

SB 32 (Moorlach) Amended: 3/2/2017 Title: California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2018 Status: Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee Position: Summary: As amended on March 2, 2017, this bill would enact the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2018 (PEPRA 2018). The bill, for an individual who becomes a member of any public retirement system for the first time on or after January 1, 2018 (and who was not a member of any other public retirement system prior to that date), would require the final compensation used to determine the member’s retirement benefits to be the highest annual pensionable compensation earned by the member during a period of at least five consecutive school years if applicable. The bill would also provide that if the member leaves the employment of a public employer participating in a public retirement system and is subsequently reemployed by the public employer at least one year later, the member will be subject to the same terms and conditions applicable to an individual who becomes a member for the first time on the date of the member’s return, for service rendered on or after that date. This bill would require the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), on or before January 1, 2019, to develop and submit to the Legislature for approval a hybrid pension plan consisting of defined benefit and defined contribution components and would require the plan to be applied to members who elect to be subject to the plan or who are first employed by the state, a contracting agency, or a school employer and become members of the system on or after the approval of the plan by the Legislature. This bill would require the CalPERS Board to determine what the level of the unfunded liability of CalPERS was in 1980 and would further require the Board to reduce the unfunded liability of CalPERS to that level, to be achieved by 2030. The bill, in any year in which the unfunded actuarial liability of CalPERS is greater than zero, would require the board to increase the employer contribution rate by 10%.

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SCA 8 (Moorlach) Title: Public Employee Retirement Benefits Status: Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee Position: Oppose Summary: This measure would permit a government employer to reduce retirement benefits that are based on work not yet performed by an employee regardless of the date that the employee was first hired, notwithstanding other provisions of the California Constitution or any other law. The measure would prohibit it from being interpreted to permit the reduction of retirement benefits that a public employee has earned based on work that has been performed, as specified.

Governance and District Operations SB 54 (De León) Amended: 3/6/2017 Title: Law Enforcement: Sharing Data Status: Senate Floor—Third Reading Position: Summary: Under Senate Bill 54, community college police and security departments would be prohibited from “[using] agency or department moneys, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes” or “[making] agency or department databases . . . or the information therein other than information regarding an individual’s citizenship or immigration status, available to anyone or any entity for the purpose of immigration enforcement.” The bill would also require the Attorney General to publish model policies limiting immigration enforcement to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law at public schools to ensure that they remain safe and accessible to all California residents regardless of immigration status. All public schools would be required to implement the model policy or an equivalent policy.

Instruction AB 276 (Medina) Amended: 3/8/2017 Title: Postsecondary Education: Report: Cybersecurity Education and Training Programs Status: Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Position: Summary: This bill would request the governing board of each community college district, no later than January 1, 2019, to complete a report that evaluates the current state of cyber security education and training programs, including specified information about those programs to determine the best method of educating and training college students to meet the current demand for jobs requiring cyber security knowledge and experience.

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AB 405 (Irwin) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Community College Districts: Baccalaureate Degree Cybersecurity Pilot Program

Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would authorize the Board of Governors, in consultation with the California State University and the University of California, to establish a statewide baccalaureate degree cybersecurity pilot program at not more than ten community college districts, to be determined by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and approved by the Board of Governors.

AB 705 (Irwin) Title: Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: Matriculation: Assessment Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require, by August 1, 2018, a community college district or college to use high school transcript data in the assessment and subsequent assignment of students to English and mathematics coursework in order to maximize the probability that the student will complete college-level coursework in English and mathematics within a one-year time frame. The bill would prohibit a community college district or college from requiring students to enroll in remedial coursework that lengthens their time to complete a degree unless research shows that those students are highly unlikely to succeed in college-level coursework. The bill would authorize a community college district or college to require students to enroll in additional concurrent support during the same semester that they take the college-level English or mathematics course, but only if it is determined that the support will be essential to the student’s success in the college-level English or mathematics course and that the support constitutes no more than half of the units required for the college-level course.

SB 577 (Dodd) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Community College Districts: Teacher Credentialing Programs of Professional Preparation

Status: Senate Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would authorize the Board of Governors, in consultation with the California State University and the University of California, to authorize a community college district to offer a teacher credentialing program. The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges would be required to develop, and adopt by regulation, a funding model for the support of teacher credentialing programs of professional preparation that is based on a calculation of the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in all district teacher credentialing programs of professional preparation and would not exceed those charged at a comparable program of the California State University.

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Miscellaneous AB 20 (Kalra) Title: Public Employee Retirement Systems: Divestment: Dakota Access Pipeline Status: Assembly Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security Committee Position: Summary: As introduced, this bill would prohibit the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System pension systems from making additional investments or renewing existing investments in a company constructing, or funding the construction of, the Dakota Access Pipeline, beginning January 1, 2018. By July 1, 2018, the systems will be required to liquidate their investments in a company constructing, or funding the construction of, the Dakota Access Pipeline.

AB 453 (Limón) Title: Postsecondary Education: Student Hunger Status: Assembly Desk Position: Summary: This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would address student hunger in California’s higher education institutions.

AB 1038 (Bonta) Title: Postsecondary Education: Higher Education Policy Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would establish a nine-member Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Postsecondary Education (Commission), and specify its membership and duties. The bill would require the Commission to publish a report on designated subjects and submit this report by March 31, 2019. The Commission would be tasked with studying and reporting on the following: • Establishing the need to create a public postsecondary education system that ensures universal access

with the capacity to support universal participation of all high school graduates in California • Identifying the current enrollment capacity in public postsecondary education as compared to the

enrollment capacity needed • Identifying the enrollment slots needed to ensure the state’s public postsecondary education system

can graduate an additional 1,100,000 California residents by 2030 • Determining the number of additional campuses needed, if any, in each of the public postsecondary

education segments to accommodate the additional enrollment demands • Ensuring that enrollments in public postsecondary institutions reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of

California high school pupils and high school graduates

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• Ensuring equity for historically disadvantaged and underrepresented groups • Determining the amount of increased investments in public postsecondary education necessary to

support a mission of universal access and participation • The resources required to create an affordable and tuition-free education system in the California public

postsecondary environment, with a first priority on supporting those students with the lowest incomes and least financial resources

SB 25 (Portantino) Title: Education: Integrated K-14 System Status: Senate Rules Committee Position: Summary: As introduced, this bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) to conduct an assessment and make recommendations for the complete integration of the state’s elementary and secondary schools and the California Community Colleges into one coordinated education system. The LAO would be required to consider best practices from education models used in Europe, recommend expansion of concurrent enrollment programs, determine the cost for providing community college for free, and determine any curriculum changes that would help articulate students from community college to the University of California and the California State University. The report would be due by January 1, 2019.

SB 307 (Nguyen) Title: Postsecondary Education: Student Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Status: Senate Rules Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office, in consultation with the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, to conduct a study to determine the extent, causes, and effects of housing insecurity and homelessness of current and prospective postsecondary students. The bill would require the study to be submitted to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2018.

SB 472 (Nielsen) Title: Postsecondary Education Status: Senate Rules Committee Position: Summary: This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation discouraging the restriction of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and other rights protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution at public colleges and universities.

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State Budget and Education Finance SB 539 (De León) Title: The Community College Student Achievement Program Status: Senate Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would create the Community College Student Achievement Program, which would require participating districts to develop a guided pathway plan as an integrated, collegewide approach focused on improving student success. Students would be awarded grants to help offset his or her total cost of community college attendance. The bill would require the Chancellor to report to the Legislature, on or before April 1, 2019, regarding grant award recipients for the 2018-19 award year. The bill would provide that the program shall not be operative in a fiscal year unless sufficient funding has been provided for the program for that fiscal year in the annual Budget Act.

Student Services *AB 21 (Kalra) Amended: 3/15/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Access to Higher Education for Every Student Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill, as significantly amended on March 15, 2017, would require community colleges to: • Refrain from releasing information regarding the immigration status of students, faculty, and staff • Require each member of the faculty and staff to immediately notify the Chancellor or President if he or

she suspects, or becomes aware that, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or other public or law enforcement entities working in coordination with ICE, are expected to enter, will enter, or have entered, the campus

• Require all faculty and staff responding to or having contact with a representative of ICE, or any other

public or law enforcement entity working in coordination with federal ICE, to verify the legality of any warrant or subpoena prior to complying or cooperating

• Maintain a contact list of legal services providers who provide pro bono legal immigration

representation, and provide it free of charge to any and all students who request it. • Assist Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students if the federal policy is amended or reversed

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*AB 504 (Medina) Amended: 3/15/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Student Success and Support Program Funding Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish standard definitions of “equity” and “significant underrepresentation” and measures of these terms for use in the student equity plans of community college districts.

AB 637 (Medina) Title: Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require the campus-based research to use a standard definition and measure of “equity” provided by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. The bill would also require the issue of “significant underrepresentation” to be addressed based on a standard definition of that term provided by the Chancellor.

AB 1567 (Holden) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: California State University: California Community Colleges: Foster Youth

Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require the California Department of Social Services and county welfare departments, in coordination with the California Community Colleges, to share relevant data, upon acceptance and enrollment of the foster youth at the California Community Colleges, to ensure that the foster youth is offered access and enrollment in programs offered by his or her campus, including, but not necessarily limited to, the California Community Colleges Extended Opportunity Programs and Services.

AB 1622 (Low) Title: Student Support Services: Dream Resource Liaisons Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would, commencing with the 2018-19 academic year, require the California Community Colleges to designate a Dream Resource Liaison on each of their respective campuses, to assist students including undocumented students, by streamlining access to all available financial aid and academic opportunities for those students. The bill would encourage those institutions to establish Dream Resource Centers. This bill would authorize the Board of Governors to seek and accept on behalf of the state any gift, bequest, devise, or donation whenever the gift and the terms and conditions thereof will aid in the creation and operation of Dream Resource Centers for their respective systems.

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SB 319 (Nguyen) Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Remedial Coursework Status: Senate Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would require the California Community Colleges to provide for entrance counseling and assessment or other suitable means to fully inform an incoming student, prior to that student completing registration, of any remedial coursework the student will be required to register for or complete and the reasons for the requirement.

*SB 478 (Portantino) Amended: 3/20/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Transfer of Community College Students to The California State University or University of California

Status: Senate Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on March 20, 2017, would require each community college district to identify those students who have completed an associate degree for transfer, notify those students of their completion of the degree requirements, automatically award the student with the degree, and add the student to an identification system maintained by the community college campus in a manner that can be accessed electronically by the California State University and the University of California enrollment systems. The bill would also require that these steps be completed within 45 days of a student’s completion of the associate degree of transfer and would authorize a student to opt out of receiving an associate degree of transfer or being included in the accessible identification system maintained by the community college campus.