Bill Text: CA AB48 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Private postsecondary education: California Private

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-10-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 310, Statutes of 2009. [AB48 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB48-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 48	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Portantino and Niello

                        DECEMBER 1, 2008

   An act relating to private postsecondary education, and making an
appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 48, as introduced, Portantino. Private postsecondary education:
Department of Consumer Affairs.
   (1) The former Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education
Reform Act of 1989, which became inoperative on July 1, 2007, and was
repealed on January 1, 2008, was administered by the Bureau for
Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education in the Department of
Consumer Affairs. The former act required the bureau, among other
things, to review and investigate all institutions, programs, and
courses of instruction approved under the act.
   The former act also established the Private Postsecondary and
Vocational Education Administration Fund, composed of certain fees
imposed on private postsecondary institutions, which was repealed on
July 1, 2008.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish a Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education
and to encourage the Department of Consumer Affairs to receive and
respond to student complaints and provide information to students and
prospective students of private postsecondary educational
institutions, until a Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education is
established.
   The bill would continue the existence of the Private Postsecondary
and Vocational Education Administration Fund under the
administration of the Department of Consumer Affairs and would
appropriate $1,000,000 from that fund to the department for the above
purposes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish a Bureau for Private Postsecondary
Education.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the legislation
described in subdivision (a) should be clearly drafted, reasonably
enforceable, and easily understandable to students, schools, and
regulators.
   (c) It is further the intent of the Legislature to encourage the
Department of Consumer Affairs to receive and respond to student
complaints and to provide information to students and prospective
students of private postsecondary educational institutions, until a
Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education is established.
  SEC. 2.  (a) The Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education
Administration Fund established by former Section 94932 of the
Education Code, and extended and reconfigured by Chapter 635 of the
Statutes of 2007, is hereby continued in existence under the
administration of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
   (b) This section shall apply retroactively from June 30, 2008.
  SEC. 3.  The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby
appropriated from the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education
Administration Fund to the Department of Consumer Affairs for
purposes of receiving and responding to student complaints and
providing information to students and prospective students of private
postsecondary educational institutions.