Bill Text: CA AB811 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 811

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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-Introduced.html

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, as introduced, 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, no less than 5 times, a credit course for which the student previously received a grade indicating substandard work. If the repeated course is a transfer-level mathematics or English course, the bill would require that the policy require that the community college inform the student of available concurrent supports, as provided. The bill would also require these policies to authorize a student to repeat, no less than 3 times, a credit course for which the student previously received a satisfactory grade and which the student is retaking for enrichment and skill-building purposes, as provided. The bill would require that the policy require that the community college inform a student whether the decision to repeat the course will impact the student’s financial aid qualifications, and provide priority registration for college credit courses to students who require the course for their intended major and to students who have not taken the course, as provided. By imposing additional duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The 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.

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.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

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, no less than five times, a credit course for which the student previously received a grade indicating substandard academic work. If the repeated course is a transfer-level mathematics or English course pursuant to Section 78213, the policies shall require a community college to inform the student of the concurrent supports available to the student pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 78213.

(2) Authorization for a student to repeat, no less than three times, a credit course for which the student previously received a satisfactory grade and which the student is retaking for enrichment and skill-building purposes.

(3) A requirement that a community college inform a student who repeats a credit course pursuant to paragraphs (1) or (2) 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.).

(4) A requirement that a community college provide priority registration for college 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 shall adopt regulations regarding the policies for the repetition of credit courses that are consistent with the requirements of subdivision (a).

(1) “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.”

(2) “Substandard academic work” means coursework for which the grading symbols “D,” “F,” “FW,” or “NP” have been recorded.

SEC. 2.

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.