Bill Text: CA AB811 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: repeating credit courses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-25 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB811 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB811-Enrolled.html
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September 11, 2023 |
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September 06, 2023 |
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Assembly
September 07, 2023 |
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September 01, 2023 |
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July 13, 2023 |
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July 03, 2023 |
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April 12, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 811
| Introduced by Assembly Member Mike Fong |
February 13, 2023 |
An act to add Section 78213.3 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 811, Mike Fong.
Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: repeating credit courses.
Existing law creates the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law authorizes community college districts throughout the state to provide instruction at the campuses they operate.
Existing law, the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, provides that the purpose of the act is to increase California community college student access and success by providing effective core matriculation services of orientation, assessment and placement, counseling, and other education planning services, and academic interventions. The act requires, among other things, a community college district or community college to maximize the probability that students will enter and complete transfer-level
coursework in English and mathematics within a one-year timeframe of their initial attempt in the discipline, as provided.
This bill would require the governing board of each community college district to establish policies for the repetition of credit courses offered by the community colleges in the district. The bill would require these policies to include, but not be limited to, authorization for a student to repeat, up to, but not exceeding, 2 times, a credit course in arts, humanities, kinesiology, foreign languages, and English as a second language, for which the student previously received a satisfactory grade and which the student is retaking for enrichment or skill-building purposes, and a requirement that the community college inform a student whether the decision to repeat those credit courses will impact the student’s federal financial aid qualifications,
as provided. The bill would also require the policies to provide priority registration for credit courses to students who require the course for their intended major and to students who have not taken the course.
This bill would require the Board of Governors to adopt regulations regarding the policies for the repetition of credit courses that are consistent with the requirements described above.
By imposing additional duties on community college districts, the bill would impose 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
It is the intent of the Legislature that nothing in Section 78213.3 of the Education Code, as added by Section 2 of this act, shall be interpreted to subvert the implementation of Section 78213 of the Education Code and the requirement for community colleges to maximize the probability that a student will enter and complete transfer-level coursework in English and mathematics within a one-year timeframe of their initial attempt in the discipline.SEC. 2.
Section 78213.3 is added to the Education Code, to read:78213.3.
(a) The governing board of each community college district shall establish policies for the repetition of credit courses offered by the community colleges in the district. The policies shall be consistent with the regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (b), describe the procedures for the repetition of credit courses, and include, but not be limited to, all of the following:(1) Authorization for a student to repeat, up to, but not exceeding, two times, a credit course in arts, humanities, kinesiology, foreign languages, and English as a second language, for which the student previously received a satisfactory grade and which the student is retaking for
enrichment or skill-building purposes.
(2) A requirement that a community college inform a student who repeats a credit course pursuant to paragraph (1) whether the decision to repeat the credit course will impact the student’s financial aid qualifications under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1070 et seq.).
(3) A requirement that a community college provide priority registration for credit courses to students who require the course for their intended major and to students who have not taken the course.
(b) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall adopt regulations regarding the policies for the repetition of credit courses that are consistent
with the requirements of subdivision (a).
(c) As used in this section, “satisfactory grade” means that for the course in question, the student’s academic record has been annotated with the symbol “A,” “B,” “C,” or “P.”
