Bill Text: CA AB1985 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Advanced Placement credit.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 513, Statutes of 2016. [AB1985 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1985-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1985	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to add Article 9 (commencing with Section 79500) to Chapter
9 of Part 48 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code,
relating to Advanced Placement credit.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1985, as amended, Williams. Postsecondary education.
   Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, the Regents of the University of California, and
the Trustees of the California State University, with appropriate
consultation with the Academic Senates of the respective segments, to
jointly develop, maintain, and disseminate a shared core curriculum
in general education courses for the purposes of transfer.
   This bill would require the  office of the Chancellor of the
 California Community Colleges to develop, and each community
college district to adopt, a uniform policy to award a pupil who
passes an Advanced Placement exam with a  minimum  score of
3  or higher   course  credit for 
a course within this curriculum   certain requirements
in a course   ,  with subject matter similar to that of
the Advanced Placement exam.
   To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on community
college districts, it would constitute 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 these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

   SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares each
of the following:  
   (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a uniform
Advanced Placement (AP) credit policy for general education within
the California Community Colleges.  
   (b) Studies consistently find that pupils who earn AP exam scores
of three and higher are likely to demonstrate multiple measures of
college success.  
   (c) The lack of a uniform AP credit policy often serves as an
academic and financial barrier for students enrolling in California
Community Colleges and is a transfer obstacle for many pupils. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Article 9
(commencing with Section 79500) is added to Chapter 9 of Part 48 of
Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read:

      Article 9.  Advanced Placement Credit


   79500.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a
uniform Advanced Placement (AP) credit policy within the California
Community Colleges.
   (b) Studies consistently find that pupils who earn AP Exam scores
of three and higher are likely to demonstrate multiple measures of
college success.
   (c) The lack of a uniform AP credit policy often serves as an
academic and financial barrier for students enrolling in California
Community Colleges and is a transfer obstacle for many pupils.

    79501.   79500.   The  office of
the Chancellor of the  California Community Colleges 
shall   shall, in collaboration with the Academic Senate
for California Community Colleges,  develop, and each community
college district shall adopt, a uniform policy to award a pupil who
passes an Advanced Placement exam with a  minimum score of
three  or higher   course  credit for
 a  California Intersegmental General Education
Transfer  Curriculum   Curriculum, California
State University General Education Breadth, or local community
college general education requirements, as appropriate for the pupil'
s needs, in a  course with subject matter similar to that of the
Advanced Placement exam.
   SEC. 2.   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.