Bill Text: CA AB1340 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Private postsecondary education: California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009: labor market outcome data reporting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 519, Statutes of 2019. [AB1340 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB1340-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1340

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Introduced by Assembly Members Chiu, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Eggman, Low, and McCarty

February 22, 2019

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An act to add Section 94897.5 to the Education Code, relating to private postsecondary education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1340, as introduced, Chiu. Private postsecondary education: California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.

Existing law, the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, provides, among other things, for student protections and regulatory oversight of private postsecondary schools in the state. The act is enforced by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act prohibits an institution, as defined, from, among other things, offering an unaccredited doctoral degree program without disclosing to prospective students prior to enrollment that the degree program is unaccredited, whether the degree issued is in a field that requires licensure in California, and any known limitation of the degree, including, but not limited to, whether the degree is recognized for licensure or certification in California and other states.

This bill would prohibit a institution offering a program intended to prepare a student for gainful employment in a recognized profession, as specified, from enrolling a California resident unless the program meets the standard for passing the federal debt-to-earnings rates measure, or meets the graduation rate and placement rate standards of the Maxine Waters School Reform and Student Protection Act of 1989.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 94897.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:

94897.5.

 An institution offering a program intended to prepare a student for gainful employment in a recognized profession, as that term is used in Section 1002 of Title 20 of the United States Code, as it read on January 1, 2019, shall not enroll a California resident, except those already enrolled on or before January 1, 2020, in any program unless the program meets one of the following standards or set of standards:

(a) The standard for passing the federal debt-to-earnings rates measure established in Section 668.403 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as it read on January 1, 2017.

(b) The graduation rate and placement rate standards in former Section 94866 of the Education Code, as it read in the Maxine Waters School Reform and Student Protection Act of 1989 on January 1, 1997.