Bill Text: CA AB2247 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Postsecondary education: accreditation documents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 388, Statutes of 2014. [AB2247 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2247-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2247	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  388
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 4, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 11, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 66014.8 to the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2247, Williams. Postsecondary education: accreditation
documents.
   Under existing law, there are 4 segments of postsecondary
education in this state. These segments include the three public
segments: the University of California, the California State
University, and the California Community Colleges. Private
postsecondary educational institutions and independent institutions
of higher education constitute the other segment.
   This bill would require each campus or other unit of the segments
listed above that receives public funding through state or federal
financial aid programs, is institutionally accredited by an
accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of
Education, and offers education and training programs to California
students to make final institutional accreditation documents
available to the public via the institution's Internet Web site, as
specified.
   To the extent that this bill would require community college
districts to provide this service, the bill 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, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 66014.8 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66014.8.  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms
have the following meanings:
   (1) "Institutional accreditation documents" means the institution'
s institutional accreditation visiting team reports and the
institutional accreditation agency action letters following an
accreditation agency's action relating to an initial accreditation,
reaffirmation, comprehensive review, special visit, or any sanction
or adverse action taken against an affiliated institution.
   (2) "Segment of postsecondary education" means the California
Community Colleges, the California State University, the University
of California, the independent institutions of higher education, as
defined in Section 66010, or the private postsecondary educational
institutions, as defined in Section 94858.
   (b) All campuses or other units of any segment of postsecondary
education that receive public funding through state or federal
financial aid programs, are institutionally accredited by an
accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of
Education, and offer education and training programs to California
students shall make final institutional accreditation documents
available to the public, once those documents have been made final
through an action of the accrediting agency, via display in a
prominent location on the institution's Internet Web site, with a
link to these documents on the institutional Internet Web site
homepage.
   (c) A campus or other unit of any segment of postsecondary
education whose documents are not currently available to the public
shall make all institutional accreditation documents finalized by the
accrediting agency based on reviews that take place after July 1,
2015, available to the public pursuant to subdivision (b).
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.