Bill Text: CA AB2558 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Community colleges: faculty and staff development.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 473, Statutes of 2014. [AB2558 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2558-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2558	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  473
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 21, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 25, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 18, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Sections 87150 and 87151 of, and to repeal and add
Section 87152 of, the Education Code, relating to community
colleges.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2558, Williams. Community colleges: faculty and staff
development.
   Existing law establishes the Community College Faculty and Staff
Development Fund, to be administered by the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges, for purposes of providing state
general funds to community colleges for supporting locally developed
and implemented faculty and staff development programs. Existing law
requires the board of governors to annually allocate funds
appropriated for these purposes to each community college district
whose chief executive officer has submitted to the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges an affidavit that includes specified
information. Existing law limits the allocation a community college
district can receive from the Community College Faculty and Staff
Development Fund to a maximum of 2% of the community college district'
s fiscal year revenues for the prior fiscal year.
   This bill would eliminate the Community College Faculty and Staff
Development Fund and instead establish the Community College
Professional Development Program. The bill would require any funding
appropriated for this program to be allocated, in accordance with
rules and regulations adopted by the board of governors, to community
college districts that provide professional development
opportunities for both faculty and staff. The bill would require
community college districts receiving this funding to include the
employee's time used participating in the Community College
Professional Development Program in the employee's contractually
obligated hours. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to
these provisions.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 87150 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   87150.  There is hereby established the Community College
Professional Development Program, to be administered by the board of
governors, the purpose of which is to provide state general funds to
community colleges for supporting locally developed and implemented
faculty and staff development programs.
  SEC. 2.  Section 87151 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   87151.  The board of governors shall annually allocate funds, when
appropriated for purposes of this article, only to a community
college district whose chief executive officer has submitted to the
chancellor an affidavit that includes all of the following:
   (a) A statement that each campus within the community college
district has an advisory committee, composed of administrators,
faculty, and staff representatives, which has assisted in the
assessment of the faculty and staff development needs and in the
design of the plan to meet those needs.
   (b) A campus human development resources plan has been completed
for the current and subsequent fiscal years.
   (c) A report of the actual expenditures for faculty and staff
development for the preceding year.
  SEC. 3.  Section 87152 of the Education Code is repealed.
  SEC. 4.  Section 87152 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   87152.  (a) Any funding appropriated for purposes of this article
shall be allocated to the community college districts that provide
professional development opportunities to both faculty and staff.
Funding shall be disbursed in accordance with rules and regulations
adopted by the board of governors.
   (b) Community college districts that receive funding pursuant to
this section shall include the employee's time used participating in
the Community College Professional Development Program in the
employee's contractually obligated hours.