Bill Text: CA AB1929 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1929

CA State Legislature page for AB1929

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

Bill Title: Career technical education: data collection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-09 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. [AB1929 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1929-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1929

Introduced by Assembly Member McKinnor

January 25, 2024

An act relating to career technical education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1929, as introduced, McKinnor. Career technical education: grant program for descendants of slavery.

Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs, as specified. Existing law establishes the Strong Workforce Program to provide funding to career technical education regional consortia made up of community college districts and local educational agencies, as specified.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to create a new competitive grant program to increase the enrollment of descendants of slavery in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), including green technology, related career technical education programs at the high school and college levels.

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

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

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to create a new competitive grant program to increase the enrollment of descendants of slavery in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), including green technology, related career technical education programs at the high school and college levels.