Bill Text: CA AB1977 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: Student Academic

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1977 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1977-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1977	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Gonzalez   and V. Manuel Pérez   ) 
    (   Coauthors:   Senators   Lara
  and Padilla   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to add Article 1.7 (commencing with Section 66727) to
Chapter 9.2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education
Code, relating to public postsecondary education, and making an
appropriation therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1977, as amended, Roger Hernández. Public postsecondary
education: Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships.

   (1) Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and
secondary schools maintained and operated by local educational
agencies throughout the state. Existing law establishes a system of
public postsecondary education in this state, consisting of the
California Community Colleges, the California State University, and
the University of California. The University of California
administers Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships
with the goal of raising student achievement levels generally and to
close achievement gaps among groups of students from kindergarten to
the postgraduate level. Existing programs within the Student
Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships (SAPEP) include the
Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP), the Mathematics,
Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program, and the Puente
program.
   This bill would express legislative intent to provide increased
financial support for SAPEP programs and to make it easier for SAPEP
students to meet their educational goals.  The bill would
grant priority enrollment to students who are participants in a SAPEP
program in the high school and college courses necessary for the
student to graduate, and transfer when appropriate, in order to
efficiently progress from high school to a baccalaureate degree.
Because this provision would impose new duties on local educational
agencies and community college districts, it would constitute a
state-mandated local program. 
   (2) This bill would appropriate  an unspecified sum
  $82,243,000  from the General Fund to the Regents
of the University of California for allocation, without regard to
fiscal year, to Student Academic Preparation and Educational
Partnerships. The bill would further provide that, of the amount
appropriated under this provision, an unspecified amount would be
allocated to the Puente program. 
   (3) 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 these
statutory provisions. 
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes   no  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Article 1.7 (commencing with Section 66727) is added to
Chapter 9.2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education
Code, to read:

      Article 1.7.  Student Academic Preparation and Educational
Partnerships


   66727.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (1) The underrepresentation of certain groups of Californians in
the ranks of students seeking baccalaureate degrees has serious
consequences for our state's ability to compete in a global economy.
   (2) Our state needs to create a statewide plan for higher
education through which our public postsecondary educational segments
can be funded to increase the enrollment numbers and the success
rate of the underrepresented groups.
   (3) The coordination between our elementary and secondary schools
and our postsecondary educational institutions needs to be improved
so that more students can succeed.
   (4) The programs within the Student Academic Preparation and
Educational Partnerships (SAPEP), especially the Early Academic
Outreach Program (EAOP), Mathematics, the Engineering, Science
Achievement (MESA) program, and the Puente program, have been proven
to be successful in assisting members of underrepresented groups to
excel while making the transition from high school to university.
   (b) Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide
increased financial support for SAPEP programs and to make it easier
for SAPEP students to meet their educational goals. 
   66727.5.  Notwithstanding any other law, a student who is a
participant in a SAPEP program shall be granted priority for
enrollment in the high school and college courses necessary for the
student to graduate, and transfer when appropriate, in order to
efficiently progress from high school to a baccalaureate degree.

  SEC. 2.  The sum of  ____   eighty-two million
two hundred forty-three thousand  dollars  ($____)
  ($82,243,000)  is hereby appropriated from the
General Fund to the Regents of the University of California for
allocation, without regard to fiscal year, to Student Academic
Preparation and Educational Partnerships. Of the amount appropriated
under this section, no less than ____ dollars ($____) shall be
allocated to the Puente program. 
  SEC. 3.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.