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ACCCA Legislative Update

Status as of: May 19, 2017

Bill No./ Author Title Position Current Status Page

Affordability

AB 17 Holden Transit Pass Program: Free or Reduced-Fare Transit Passes Watch Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 5

AB 19 Santiago Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 5

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

Suspense File 5

AB 343 McCarty

Public Postsecondary Education: Holders of Certain Special Immigrant Visas

Senate Desk 6

AB 370 Rodriguez Student Financial Aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 6

*AB 393 Quirk-Silva Public Postsecondary Education: Tuition: Enrollment Fees Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 6

AB 453 Limón Postsecondary Education: Student Hunger Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 7

AB 559 Santiago Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 7

AB 647 Reyes

Personal Income Taxes: Credit: Full-Time Community College Students

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 7

AB 1058 Gipson Community Colleges: Fee Waivers Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 7

AB 1356 Eggman

Higher Education Assistance Fund: Personal Income Taxes: Additional Tax

Assembly Higher Education Committee 8

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AB 1468 Chiu Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans Senate Education Committee 8

AB 1563 Medina Student Financial Aid: Cal Grant C Awards Assembly Appropriations Committee 8

SB 68 Lara

Public Postsecondary Education: Exemption from Nonresident Tuition

Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 9

SB 573 Lara Student Financial Aid: Service Learning Programs Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 9

*SB 727 Galgiani

Public Postsecondary Education: Instructional Materials: Innovative Pricing

Senate Floor—Second Reading 9

*SB 769 Hill Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program Support Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 10

Employees

AB 5 Gonzalez Employers: Opportunity to Work Act Assembly Appropriations Committee 10

AB 168 Eggman Employers: Salary Information Assembly Floor—Third Reading 10

AB 387 Thurmond Minimum Wage: Health Professionals: Interns Watch Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 11

*AB 568 Gonzalez Fletcher

School and Community College Employees: Paid Maternity Leave Oppose Assembly Floor—Third Reading 11

AB 856 Levine

Public Postsecondary Education: Hiring Policy: Socioeconomic Diversity

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 11

AB 1651 Reyes

Community Colleges: Academic Employees: Involuntary Administrative Leave and Investigations

Assembly Floor—Third Reading 12

ACR 32 Medina Community Colleges: Faculty Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 12

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*SB 550 Pan

Public School Employment: Meeting and Negotiating: Legal Actions: Settlement Offer: Attorney’s Fees

Senate Floor—Third Reading 12

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

Committee 13

Facilities

SB 7 Moorlach School District and Community College District Bonds: Project

Information

Senate Education Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported

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Governance and District Operations

SB 54 de León Law Enforcement: Sharing Data Assembly Public Safety 13

Instruction

AB 276 Medina

Postsecondary Education: Report: Cybersecurity Education and Training Programs

Senate Rules Committee 14

AB 705 Irwin

Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: Matriculation: Assessment Watch Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 14

SB 577 Dodd

Public Postsecondary Education: Community College Districts: Teacher Credentialing Programs of Professional Preparation Support Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 14

Miscellaneous

AB 20 Kalra

Public Employee Retirement Systems: Divestment: Dakota Access Pipeline

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 15

AB 1018 Reyes

Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans: Homeless Students

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 15

AB 1038 Bonta Postsecondary Education: Higher Education Policy Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 15

SB 307 Nguyen

Postsecondary Education: Task Force: Study of Student Housing Insecurity and Homelessness

Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 16

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SB 472 Nielsen Public Postsecondary Education: Campus Free Expression Act Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 16

Student Services

AB 21 Kalra

Public Postsecondary Education: Access to Higher Education for Every Student

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 17

AB 504 Medina

Community Colleges: Student Success and Support Program Funding

Senate Education Committee 17

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

AB 1567 Holden

Public Postsecondary Education: California State University: California Community Colleges: Foster Youth: Higher Education Outreach and Assistance Act for Foster Youth

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 18

AB 1622 Low Student Support Services: Dream Resource Liaisons Assembly Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 18

SB 319 Nguyen California Community Colleges: Remedial Coursework Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 18

SB 478 Portantino

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

Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 19

SB 539 De León The Community College Student Achievement Program Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 19

Veterans

SB 25 Portantino

Public Postsecondary Education: Nonresident Tuition Exemption

Assembly Desk 19

SB 694 Newman California Community Colleges: Veteran Resource Centers Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 20

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Affordability AB 17 (Holden) Title: Transit Pass Program: Free or Reduced-Fare Transit Passes Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Watch 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: 3/30/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on March 30, 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. Recent amendments clarify that out-of-state students enrolled in community colleges would not be eligible for the Assembly Bill 19 fee waiver.

AB 204 (Medina) Amended: 3/16/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Waiver of Enrollment Fees Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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. 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.

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AB 343 (McCarty) Amended: 4/20/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Holders of Certain Special Immigrant Visas Status: Senate Desk Position: Summary: As amended, this bill would entitle special immigrant visa holders and certain refugees to resident classification for the purpose of California Community Colleges fees for the length of time he or she lives in this state, up to the minimum time necessary to become a resident.

AB 370 (Rodriguez) Title: Student Financial Aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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) Amended: 5/11/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Tuition: Enrollment Fees Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill would require that the amounts of tuition that is charged to students of the California State University, and the amount of the enrollment fee charged to eligible 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. The bill would define “eligible students” as students exempt from payment of nonresident tuition either because they are California residents or are otherwise exempted from payment of nonresident tuition. As recently amended, the bill would not be in effect during years in which the Governor has declared a fiscal emergency.

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AB 453 (Limón) Amended: 4/27/2017 Title: Postsecondary Education: Student Hunger Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: For a district that chooses to participate, the local board of governors shall designate as a “hunger-free campus” each of its respective campuses that have a campus employee designated to help students enroll in CalFresh and a campus food pantry. The bill would provide that each campus that receives the designation shall receive a funding incentive, which is undefined.

AB 559 (Santiago) Title: Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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 647 (Reyes) Amended: 5/2/2017 Title: Personal Income Taxes: Credit: Full-Time Community College Students Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: For each taxable year beginning January 1, 2018, and before January 1, 2023, this bill would allow a credit under the Personal Income Tax Law in an amount equal to the fees and other expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year, as does not exceed $2,000, for the enrollment of a full-time community college student. The bill would require a taxpayer claiming the credit to submit with his or her return a copy of the student’s transcript evidencing completion of an academic year of full-time enrollment in a California community college.

AB 1058 (Gipson) Amended: 4/17/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Fee Waivers Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill would waive enrollment fees for a California resident who meets existing academic progress standards and, at the time of enrollment, is a ward or former ward of the juvenile court, is or was placed in, or committed to, out-of-home care in connection with that status as a ward or former ward after reaching 16 years of age, and is no older than 25 years of age.

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AB 1356 (Eggman) Amended: 4/6/2017 Title: Higher Education Assistance Fund: Personal Income Taxes: Additional Tax Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would create the Higher Education Assistance Fund for the funding of student financial assistance for tuition and fees required of in-state, undergraduate students enrolled at the University of California, the California State University, and California Community Colleges. The funds, generated by an income tax of those earning more than $1 million beginning after January 1, 2019, shall not be used to supplant existing state or federal funds utilized to provide student financial assistance.

AB 1468 (Chiu) Amended: 4/3/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans Status: Senate Education Committee Position: Summary: This bill would authorize the use of funding from the Student Equity Program, up to $25,000 of apportionment funds per campus, or both, for the provision of emergency student financial assistance to eligible students to overcome unforeseen financial challenges that would directly impact a student’s ability to persist in his or her course of study, if emergency student financial assistance is included in an institution’s plan for interventions to students.

AB 1563 (Medina) Amended: 3/21/2017 Title: Student Financial Aid: Cal Grant C Awards Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: This bill would rename the Cal Grant C award the “Competitive Cal Grant C” award, set the maximum Competitive Cal Grant C award amount at $2,462 for tuition and fees and $547 for certain other costs, and establish an additional Competitive Cal Grant C award in an annual amount not to exceed $2,462 for community college students for occupational and technical training to cover access costs, training-related costs, and tuition and fees. The bill would also establish a Cal Grant C Entitlement award for access costs for community college students who are enrolled in a for-credit certificate or credential instructional program that is less than one academic year in length and that is an occupational or technical training program identified by the commission. The Entitlement award would be worth $3,000.

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SB 68 (Lara) Amended: 3/29/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Exemption from Nonresident Tuition Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on March 29, 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 (or attainment of equivalent credits) 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) Amended: 5/3/2017 Title: Student Financial Aid: Service Learning Programs Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill would require the Board of Governors to develop and ensure that each of their respective campuses implement a service learning program for students with financial need who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under AB 540. The bill would establish that personal information of a student collected or obtained for the service learning program is not a public record for purposes of the California Public Records Act and shall only be collected, used, and retained to administer the program, and would prohibit disclosure of that personal information to any other person, except as provided.

*SB 727 (Galgiani) Amended: 5/18/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Instructional Materials: Innovative Pricing Status: Senate Floor—Second Reading Position: Summary: This bill would add to the Donahoe Higher Education Act a provision authorizing public postsecondary educational institutions to adopt policies that allow for the use of innovative pricing techniques and payment options for textbooks and other instructional materials, as specified. 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.

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*SB 769 (Hill) Amended: 5/8/2017 Title: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Support Summary: This bill would increase the maximum number of district baccalaureate degree pilot programs from 15 to 25 programs. The bill would also extend the operation of the statewide baccalaureate degree pilot program until July 1, 2028. 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) Title: Employers: Opportunity to Work Act Status: Assembly Appropriations 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.

AB 168 (Eggman) Amended: 5/15/2017 Title: Employers: Salary Information Status: Assembly Floor—Third Reading 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.

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AB 387 (Thurmond) Title: Minimum Wage: Health Professionals: Interns Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Watch Summary: This bill would expand the definition of employer under provisions related to minimum wage, to include any person who directly or indirectly, or through an agent or any other person, employs or exercises control over the wages, hours or working conditions of any person, including any person engaged in a period of supervised work experience to satisfy requirements for licensure, registration, or certification as an allied health professional. SSC Comment: Opposition is concerned that Assembly Bill 387 fails to recognize that for patient care-related training programs, state and federal laws prohibit students from providing unsupervised care. Students are not employees, and the cost of treating them as such will have the adverse consequence of reducing students’ opportunities to benefit from hospital-provided training and clinical experience and exacerbating workforce shortages.

*AB 568 (Gonzalez Fletcher) Amended: 5/17/2017 Title: School and Community College Employees: Paid Maternity Leave Status: Assembly Floor—Third Reading Position: Oppose Summary: This bill would require the governing board of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, and the governing board of a community college district to provide at least 6 weeks of a leave of absence with full pay for a certificated employee, or an academic employee, of the district or charter school who is required to be absent from duties because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery therefrom. The bill would authorize the paid leave to begin before and continue after childbirth, provided that the employee is actually disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related condition.

AB 856 (Levine) Amended: 4/4/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Hiring Policy: Socioeconomic Diversity Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on April 4, 2017, would require the governing board of each community college district to ensure that when filling faculty or athletic coaching positions, consideration is given to candidates with socioeconomic backgrounds that are underrepresented among existing faculty or athletic coaching staff on the campus for which the position is to be filled.

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AB 1651 (Reyes) Amended: 4/27/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Academic Employees: Involuntary Administrative Leave and Investigations Status: Assembly Floor—Third Reading Position: Summary: As significantly amended, this bill would, at least two business days before an academic employee is placed on involuntary paid administrative leave or is subject to an investigatory interview or other interrogation related to an allegation of misconduct, require the employee to be provided with a copy of each written complaint related to the proposed involuntary paid leave or the investigation, or, if there is no written complaint, a notification in writing of the details of the allegation upon which the decision to place the employee on involuntary paid administrative leave or conduct the investigatory interview or other interrogation is based. The bill would further specify that the parties to an applicable collective bargaining agreement are entitled to negotiate additional policies and procedures relating to the investigation or involuntary paid administrative leave of an academic employee as long as those policies and procedures are not in conflict with this bill.

ACR 32 (Medina) Title: Community Colleges: Faculty Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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 550 (Pan) Amended: 5/9/2017 Title: Public School Employment: Meeting and Negotiating: Legal Actions: Settlement Offer: Attorney’s Fees

Status: Senate Floor—Third Reading Position: Summary: As completely rewritten, this bill would require an employer, if an employee organization makes an offer to settle a dispute alleging an employer’s failure to provide wages, benefits, or working conditions required by state law, and the employer does not accept the offer and fails to obtain a “more favorable judgment or award” (not defined in the section), to pay the employee organization’s attorney’s fees and expenses incurred after the offer was made.

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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.

Facilities

SB 7 (Moorlach) Title: School District and Community College District Bonds: Project Information Status: Senate Education Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported Position: Summary: Sponsored by the California Association of County Treasurers and Tax Collectors, SB 7—the “Truth in Borrowing” bill—would require local school and community college districts to include a facility master plan with cost estimates when presenting a local bond measure to their electorate that supports the identified purposes of the bond. Additionally, SB 7 would require that each planned project and school be specified as part of the bond.

Governance and District Operations SB 54 (de León) Amended: 3/29/2017 Title: Law Enforcement: Sharing Data Status: Assembly Public Safety Committee 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. SSC Comment: The bill is no longer an urgency measure, since a full two-thirds majority needed for the urgency clause could not be mustered.

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Instruction AB 276 (Medina) Amended: 4/17/2017 Title: Postsecondary Education: Report: Cybersecurity Education and Training Programs Status: Senate Rules 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.

AB 705 (Irwin) Amended: 5/3/2017 Title: Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: Matriculation: Assessment Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Watch Summary: This bill, as amended on May 3, 2017, would require a community college district or college to maximize the probability that the student will complete transfer-level coursework in English and mathematics within a one-year time frame and use, in the placement of students into English and mathematics courses in order to achieve this goal, one or more of the following: high school coursework, high school grades, and high school grade point average. 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 placement research that includes consideration of high school grade point average and coursework 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 transfer-level English or mathematics course, but only if it is determined that the support will increase their likelihood of passing the transfer-level English or mathematics course.

SB 577 (Dodd) Amended: 4/18/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Community College Districts: Teacher Credentialing Programs of Professional Preparation

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Support Summary: This bill would authorize the California Community Colleges Board of Governors (BOG), in consultation with the California State University (CSU) and the University of California, to authorize a community college district to offer a teacher credentialing program. The program would be accredited by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing’s Committee on Accreditation. The community college district would be required to identify and document unmet teaching workforce needs in the local community or region of the district and design the district’s teacher credentialing program of professional preparation to train qualified teachers to meet those needs.

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If the BOG authorizes such a program, it 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 CSU.

Miscellaneous AB 20 (Kalra) Amended: 4/24/2017 Title: Public Employee Retirement Systems: Divestment: Dakota Access Pipeline Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: As significantly amended, this bill would require the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System pension systems to make a report by April 1, 2018, regarding investments in the Dakota Access Pipeline. By that date, the boards will also be required to consider factors related to tribal sovereignty and indigenous tribal rights when selecting or rejecting investments. The bill would provide that it does not require a board to take any action unless the board determines in good faith that the action is consistent with the board’s fiduciary responsibilities established in the constitution.

AB 1018 (Reyes) Amended: 3/21/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans: Homeless Students Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill would add homeless students to the categories of students required to be addressed in the student equity plans.

AB 1038 (Bonta) Amended: 4/3/2017 Title: Postsecondary Education: Higher Education Policy Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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 January 1, 2020. 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

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• 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 • 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 307 (Nguyen) Amended: 5/3/2017 Title: Postsecondary Education: Task Force: Study of Student Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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 task force would consist of three representatives from each segment and require that one of the representatives selected by each segment be a currently enrolled student. The bill would require the study to be submitted to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2018.

SB 472 (Nielsen) Amended: 5/3/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Campus Free Expression Act Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill would enact the “Campus Free Expression Act,” which would declare that the outdoor areas of public postsecondary institutions are traditional public forums. The bill would provide that a public postsecondary institution may maintain and enforce reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions in service of a significant institutional interest only when those restrictions employ clear, published, content-neutral and viewpoint-neutral criteria, and provide for ample alternative means of expression. The bill would require these restrictions to allow for members of the campus community to spontaneously and contemporaneously assemble. The bill would further require that a person who wishes to engage in expressive activity on the campus of a public postsecondary institution be permitted to do so freely, as long as that person’s conduct is not unlawful and does not materially and substantially disrupt the functioning of the institution.

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Student Services AB 21 (Kalra) Amended: 4/24/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Access to Higher Education for Every Student Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill, as significantly amended on April 24, 2017, would require community colleges to: • Refrain from releasing confidential information regarding students, faculty, and staff • Advise all students, and require each member of the faculty and staff, to immediately notify the campus

chancellor or president if they are advised that public or law enforcement entities are expected to enter, or have entered, the campus to execute a federal immigration order

• Advise all students, and require all faculty and staff responding to or having contact with a

representative of a public or law enforcement entity executing a federal immigration order, to promptly refer the entity or individual to the campus chancellor or president for purposes of verifying the legality of any warrant or subpoena

• Assign staff to serve as a point of contact for those who may be subject to immigration actions • Adopt and implement a policy limiting assistance with immigration enforcement to the fullest extent

possible consistent with federal and state law • 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.

AB 504 (Medina) Amended: 3/15/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Student Success and Support Program Funding Status: Senate 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: Senate 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.

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AB 1567 (Holden) Amended: 5/2/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: California State University: California Community Colleges: Foster Youth: Higher Education Outreach and Assistance Act for Foster Youth

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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. As amended, this bill would require the California Community Colleges, upon determination, through receipt of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or through another means, that a student enrolled at, or applying to, that campus is a current or former foster youth and is eligible for financial aid, to notify that student about appropriate campus support programs, notify that student of his or her eligibility for financial aid, and provide that student with instructions for accessing the benefits for which he or she has qualified.

AB 1622 (Low) Title: Student Support Services: Dream Resource Liaisons Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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.

SB 319 (Nguyen) Amended: 4/17/2017 Title: California Community Colleges: Remedial Coursework Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 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, exemption policies, and the availability of any test preparation workshops or programs. Recent amendments also require each community college district to implement any standards and procedures adopted by the Board of Governors to effectuate these requirements.

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SB 478 (Portantino) Amended: 4/4/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Transfer of Community College Students to the California State University or University of California

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on April 4, 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 for transfer and would authorize a student to opt out of receiving an associate degree for transfer or being included in the accessible identification system maintained by the community college campus.

SB 539 (De León) Amended: 4/26/2017 Title: The Community College Student Achievement Program Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill would create the Community College Completion Grant Program, which would require participating districts to develop guided pathways, defined as comprehensive sets of community college programs and services focused on improving student success. Students would be awarded grants to help offset his or her total cost of community college attendance, only in years in which funding has been provided for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute and if the student has maintained a 2.0 GPA, enrolls in 15 or more credit units per semester, enrolls in a sufficient number of courses, as determined by the community college, to be considered on track, and enrolls in summer coursework. 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.

Veterans SB 25 (Portantino) Amended: 3/30/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Nonresident Tuition Exemption Status: Assembly Desk Position: Summary: As significantly amended, this bill now aligns with federal law the definition of who shall be exempt from paying nonresident tuition because of their eligibility for education benefits under two federal GI Bills.

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SB 694 (Newman) Amended: 5/2/2017 Title: California Community Colleges: Veteran Resource Centers Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill would require the Chancellor’s Office to ensure that each of its campuses provides a dedicated on-campus Veteran Resource Center that offers services to help student veterans transition successfully from military life to educational success through the core components of academics, wellness, and camaraderie and would require those Veteran Resource Centers, at a minimum, to be open for 25 hours a week, be staffed by veterans whenever possible, be 400 square feet and fully accessible, and provide enrolled student veterans with specified services. As amended, a community college may submit justification to the Chancellor’s Office of why it cannot comply with the bill’s requirements and shall demonstrate how it will serve its veteran students without complying with these new requirements.