Bill Text: CA AB2676 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Postsecondary education: student financial aid verification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-14 - Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. [AB2676 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2676-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
March 10, 2022 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2676
| Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes |
February 18, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2676, as amended, Cervantes.
Libraries: public libraries and museums. Postsecondary education: student financial aid verification.
Existing law establishes a system of postsecondary education in this state, including the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions as the segments of that system. Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the state agency that generally administers student financial aid programs. These programs include, among others, the Cal Grant Program.
This bill would prohibit the commission or an institution of higher education from performing a verification to establish eligibility for state financial aid on a student more than once, unless there is a break in attendance of more than one year by the student or
the student transfers institutions, in which circumstance an additional verification would be authorized. This bill would, however, authorize the commission through an institution, or an institution internally, to verify student enrollment and grade point average for the purpose of verifying student eligibility under existing state financial aid eligibility requirements.
Existing law authorizes an unincorporated town or village to establish, equip, and maintain a public library for the dissemination of knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature, as well as a public museum, in accordance with specified laws.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that law.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 69509.7 is added to the Education Code, to read:69509.7.
Notwithstanding any other law, each higher education institution and the commission shall not perform a verification to establish eligibility for the receipt of state financial aid on an individual student, except subject to the following conditions:(a) A verification to establish eligibility for state financial aid may be conducted once per student per institution where the student is enrolled.
(b) The commission may work with an institution to verify, or an institution may internally verify, the enrollment and grade point average of a student for the purposes of verifying student eligibility under an existing requirement for a state financial aid program.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), if there is a break of more than one year in a student’s enrollment at an institution, or if the student transfers institutions, the institution or the commission may each perform a financial verification for purposes of reestablishing state financial aid eligibility.
An unincorporated town or village may establish, equip, and maintain a public library for the dissemination of knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature, in accordance with this chapter. An unincorporated town or village
may also establish, equip, and maintain a public museum in accordance with this chapter.
