Bill Text: CA AB1393 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Student Aid Commission: California Dream Act: Food Support Pilot Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1393 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1393
| Introduced by Assembly Member Calderon (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gabriel) |
February 17, 2023 |
An act to add and repeal Section 69520.5 of the Education Code, relating to student nutrition.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1393, as amended, Calderon.
Student Aid Commission: California Dream Act applicants: Act: Food Support Pilot Program.
Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for the administration of state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. Existing law requires a school district, county office of education, or charter school to ensure that a grade 12 pupil who has not opted out, as specified, completes and submits a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or, if the pupil is exempt from paying nonresident tuition under existing law, completes and submits a form for purposes of the California Dream Act.
Existing law also establishes the California Food Assistance Program and requires the State Department of Social Services to use state funds appropriated for that program to provide nutrition benefits to households that are ineligible for CalFresh benefits
solely due to their immigration status. status, as specified.
This bill, until July 15, 2029, bill would require the Student Aid Commission to establish the Food Support Pilot Program for a 4-year period to provide food support grants to qualifying students who submit a complete California Dream Act application, as specified.
application and receive financial assistance under the California Dream Act. The bill would require the commission to allocate the award on a semester or quarterly basis to a qualifying institution, as defined, if certain program eligibility requirements are met and would require a qualifying institution to provide the funds to the student, as specified. The bill would prohibit a grant received by a student pursuant to these provisions from counting towards the total of a student’s financial aid award and would prohibit a qualified institution from reducing the institutional financial aid offer of a student who is eligible to receive a grant, as provided. The bill would, for each year of the program, require an individual award to equal the maximum amount allocated to one CalFresh recipient during that year.
The bill would
require the commission to conduct a student survey to evaluate the effectiveness of the Food Support Pilot Program and to report certain information to the Legislature, as specified. The bill would make its provisions operative implement its provisions only upon an appropriation of funds for its purposes.
purposes and would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2033. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on community colleges, 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 69520.5 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 69519.3, to read:69520.5.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the grants provided to students pursuant to this section shall be used to reduce the financial burden of the total cost of tuition by providing students with access to funds for food.(b) Commencing with the 2024–25 academic year, the commission shall establish the Food Support Pilot Program for a four-year period to provide food support grants to qualifying students who submit a complete California Dream Act application.
application and receive financial assistance under the California Dream Act. Each student who meets the Food Support Pilot Program eligibility requirements pursuant to subdivision (c) shall be guaranteed an award. For each year of the Food Support Pilot Program, an individual award shall equal the maximum amount allocated to one CalFresh recipient during that year.
(c) The commission shall allocate the award on a semester or quarterly basis to the qualifying institution if all of the following are met:
(1) The student has submitted a complete California Dream Act application, submitted or postmarked no later than March 2 of each year.
application on time.
(2) The student demonstrates financial need by having an expected family contribution of equal to or less than the qualifying expected family contribution for the Federal Pell Grant Program (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1070a).
would be eligible for a Federal Pell Grant (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1070a) if the student was a citizen or an eligible noncitizen and the student is offered and receives financial aid from the state or an institutional aid program.
(3) The student is pursuing an undergraduate academic program of at least two academic years that is offered by a qualifying institution.
(4) The student is enrolled at least part time.
(5) The student maintains good academic standing with the qualifying institution at which the student is enrolled.
(d) The commission shall notify students who meet the eligibility requirements pursuant to subdivision (c) of their receipt of the award.
(e) The During the pilot program, the food support grant may be renewed for a total of the equivalent of up to two years or four years of full-time attendance in an associate degree or undergraduate program, provided that the student still meets the Food Support Pilot Program eligibility requirements pursuant to subdivision (c).
(f) The commission shall disburse funds to qualifying institutions and each institution shall disburse the funds in accordance with the provisions set forth in the institutional agreement between the commission
and the institution for Cal Grants pursuant to Section 69432.8.
(g) (1) A qualifying institution, upon the receipt of funds from the commission for purposes of this section, shall provide the funds to the student and shall not reduce the institutional aid offer of a student who receives a grant pursuant to this section unless the student’s gift aid exceeds the student’s annual cost of attendance. student.
(2) The A grant received by a student pursuant to this
section shall not count towards the total of a student’s financial aid award and the qualifying institution may shall not reduce the institutional financial aid offer of a student who is eligible to receive a grant pursuant to this section by no more than the amount of the student’s gift aid that is in excess of the student’s annual cost of attendance. section.
(h) Beginning on or before December 1, one year after moneys are appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of this section, and
annually thereafter, the commission shall report to the Legislature the number of students who qualified for the funding a pilot program grant disaggregated by qualifying institution, age, gender, and race/ethnicity. race, and ethnicity. A report submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(i) The commission shall conduct a student survey in the third year of the pilot program and upon completion of the pilot program to evaluate the effectiveness of
the Food Support Pilot Program. The survey shall address, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1) How students elected to use their grants received pursuant to this section.
(2)If qualifying institutions reduced institutional aid pursuant to subdivision (g) and if so, by how much.
(3)
(2) The barriers to administering the pilot program for either the commission or qualifying institutions.
(4)
(3) Any recommendations for the improvement of the pilot program so long as the recommendations further the intent of the pilot program.
(j) The commission shall report the results of the student survey described in subdivision (i) to the Assembly Committee on Higher Education, the Assembly Committee on Budget, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review on or before July 1, 2027, and on or before July 1, 2029. A report submitted pursuant to this section shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(k) (1) The commission shall administer the Food Support Pilot Program, and shall adopt rules and regulations for that purpose.
(2) The commission may adopt emergency regulations it deems necessary for the implementation of the Food Support Pilot Program, in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code). For purposes of the Administrative Procedure Act, including Section 11349.6 of the Government Code, the adoption of those regulations or amendments to those regulations shall be deemed to be an emergency and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, or general welfare, notwithstanding
subdivision (e) of Section 11346.1 of the Government Code.
(k)
(l) This section shall become operative be implemented only upon an appropriation of funds for this purpose by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or in another statute.
(l)
(m) As used in this section the following definitions apply:
(1) “Academic year” means July 1 to June 30, inclusive. The start date of a session shall determine the academic year in which it is included.
(2)“Cost of attendance” means the student’s tuition and fees, books and supplies, living expenses, transportation expenses, and any other student expenses used to calculate a student’s financial need for purposes of student aid programs under Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1070 et seq.).
(3)“Expected family contribution” means a student’s expected family contribution calculated according to the federal methodology pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 69506 as established by Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1070 et seq.).
(4)
(2) “Institutional financial aid” means financial aid that is paid for by the institution of higher education from its funds and the recipient of the aid is selected by the institution.
(5)“Qualifying institutions” means any public postsecondary educational institution or independent institution of higher education, as defined in Section 66010, in the state that receives, or benefits from, state-funded financial assistance or enrolls students who receive state-funded student financial assistance.
(6)
(3) “Part time,” for purposes of eligibility, means 6 to 11 semester units, inclusive, or the equivalent.
(4) “Pilot program” means the Food Support Pilot Program.
(5) “Qualifying institution” means any public postsecondary educational institution or independent institution of higher education, as defined in Section 66010, in the state that receives, or benefits from, state-funded financial assistance or enrolls students who receive state-funded student financial assistance.
(m)Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section shall become inoperative on July 15,
2029, and as of January 1, 2030, is repealed.
(n) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2033, and as of that date is repealed.
