Bill Text: CA AB1736 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Community colleges: student government.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 79, Statutes of 2022. [AB1736 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB1736-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 17, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1736

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Introduced by Assembly Member Choi
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Aguiar-Curry, Mia Bonta, Chen, Kiley, and Mathis)

January 31, 2022

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An act to amend Section 76061 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1736, as amended, Choi. Community colleges: student government.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college to authorize the students of a college to organize a student body association and requires a student who is elected to serve as an officer in the student government to be enrolled in the community college at the time of election and throughout their term with a minimum of 5 semester units or its equivalent.

Existing law establishes the Adult Education Program under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The program requires the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director of the State Board of Education, to divide the state into adult education regions and approve one adult education consortium in each adult education region, as specified. Existing law authorizes any community college district, school district, or county office of education, or any joint powers authority consisting of community college districts, school districts, county offices of education, or a combination of these, located within the boundaries of the adult education region, to join the consortium as a member.

This bill would additionally allow a student to be elected to serve as an officer in the student government if they are enrolled with a minimum of 25 clock hours per semester or the equivalent quarter clock hours, in an adult education program offered by a community college district, or are a disabled student, as defined.

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 76061 of the Education Code is amended to read:

76061.

 A student who is elected to serve as an officer in the student government of a community college shall meet any of the following requirements:

(a) (1) The student shall be enrolled in the community college at the time of election, and throughout the student’s term, with a minimum of five semester units, or the equivalent quarter units.

(2) The student shall meet and maintain the minimum standards of scholarship prescribed for community college students by the community college district.

(b) The student shall be enrolled in the community college at the time of election, and throughout the student’s term, with a minimum of 25 clock hours per semester, or the equivalent quarter clock hours. an adult education program offered by a community college district pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 84900) of Chapter 5 of Part 50, at the time of the election and throughout the student’s term.

(c) The student is enrolled in the community college at the time of election, and throughout the student’s term, and is a disabled student, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 84850.