Bill Text: CA AB1584 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health education: Health Science and Medical Technology
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-25 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1584 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB1584-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1584 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 23, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Eng
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
An act to amend Section 33430 of, and to repeal Sections
33431 Sections 33430, 33431, and 33432 of
, the Education Code, relating to health
education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1584, as amended, Eng. Health education: Health Science and
Medical Technology Project.
Existing law establishes a Health Science and Medical Technology
Project, administered by the State Department of Education to provide
competitive grant funds to California public schools offering grades
7 to 12, inclusive, to enhance existing or establish new
health-related career pathway programs, including programs at
California partnership academies and regional occupational centers
and programs, as well as other health science and medical technology
pathway programs.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to report
to the Legislature and the Governor on the efficacy of this project
on or before January 1, 2012. Existing law repeals the project as of
January 1, 2014.
This bill would recast and revise the provisions relating to the
Health Science and Medical Technology Project. The bill
would add public postsecondary students to the persons who would be
eligible to participate in programs supported by grants allocated
under the project.
The bill would require grant recipients to design and implement a
multiyear coherent sequence of standards-based academic and career
technical education courses and work-based learning experiences that
provide pupils as early as middle school with a structured
progression of secondary and postsecondary education. The bill would
specify the purposes of the project. The bill would require the
department to monitor and review all grantees under the project.
The bill would delete the provision requiring
instead require the department to report to the
Legislature and the Governor on the efficacy of the project on or
before January 1, 2012 2016 . The bill
would also delete the provision that would repeal the
project as of January 1, 2014, thereby extending the project
indefinitely move the date of the termination of the
operation of the project from January 1, 2014, to July 1, 2018, on
which date these provisions would become inoperative, thereby
extending the duration of the project by 4 1/2
years .
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 33430 of the Education Code is amended to read:
33430. (a) This section establishes the Health Science and
Medical Technology Project, administered by the department to provide
competitive grant funds to California public schools .
Programs serving pupils in middle school or high school
or California public postsecondary students to
enhance existing, or to establish new, health care career pathway
programs. The Superintendent shall approve all final grant
allocations under this section. Grant allocations under this section
shall be contingent upon the provision of funding in the annual
Budget Act.
(b) Programs eligible for funding under this section include, but
are not necessarily limited to, California partnership academies and
regional occupational centers and programs, as well as other health
science and medical technology pathway programs.
(c) (1) Grant recipients under this section shall, at a minimum,
design and implement a multiyear coherent sequence of standards-based
academic and career technical education courses and work-based
learning experiences that provide pupils as early as middle school
with a structured progression of secondary and postsecondary
education. A major component of the grant shall be the relationship
with education partners to facilitate articulation, dual credit, and
other strategies to support pupil advancement, and, as a result,
pupils will be able to transition into postsecondary education.
(2) The purposes of this project include all of the following:
(A) Increasing pupils' interest in, knowledge of, and exposure to
the health care industry.
(B) Enhancing academic achievement and leadership skills
applicable to health care.
(C) Providing pupils with a path to complete postsecondary health
care programs and complete a health care certificate or license.
(D) Pursuing a full range of health care employment at entry,
technical, or professional levels.
(d) Funding provided for purposes of this section shall be limited
to the following activities:
(1) Coordination, design, and implementation of an articulated
multiyear sequence of courses from middle school through
postsecondary education in a selected pathway.
(2) Development of standards-based health-science- and
medical-technology- focused medical-technology-focused
curriculum.
(3) Integration of pupil leadership and engagement practices that
promote pupils' decisionmaking and career choices.
(4) Support of work-based learning experiences.
(5) Providing related professional development opportunities.
(6) Providing materials and equipment to support academic and
technical curriculum alignment in the selected pathway.
(e) A grantee under this section shall be monitored and reviewed
by the department. Technical assistance shall be provided by the
department to ensure that grantees meet the requirements of this
section.
SEC. 2. Section 33431 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
33431. The State Department of Education shall report to the
Legislature and the Governor on the efficacy of the project
established under this article on or before January 1, 2012
2016 .
SEC. 3. Section 33432 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
33432. This article shall remain in effect only until
January 1, 2014 become inoperative on July 1, 2018
, and , as of that date
January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that is enacted becomes operative on or
before January 1, 2014 2019 , deletes
or extends that date the dates on which it
becomes inoperative and is repealed .
SEC. 2. Section 33431 of the Education Code is
repealed.
SEC. 3. Section 33432 of the Education Code is
repealed.
