Bill Text: CA SB1200 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: academic standards.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-20 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 518, Statutes of 2014. [SB1200 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1200-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1200	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section 66205.55 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1200, as amended, Padilla. Public postsecondary education:
academic standards.
   The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things,
the missions and functions of California's public and independent
segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of
higher education. Existing law establishes the University of
California, under the administration of the Regents of the University
of California, and the California State University, under the
administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as
2 of the public segments of postsecondary education in this state. A
provision of the act requires the California State University and
requests the University of California to establish a uniform set of
model academic standards for high school courses for pupils who wish
to attend those institutions.
   This bill would require the Trustees of the California State
University, and would request the Regents of the University of
California, to  establish a uniform set of academic standards
  create guidelines  for high school computer
science courses  ,   to satisfy the "a-g"
subject requirements, as defined, for the area of mathematics 
for purposes of  recognition for  undergraduate
admission at their respective institutions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 66205.55 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66205.55.   (a)    The Trustees of the
California State University shall, and the Regents of the University
of California are requested to,  establish a uniform set of
academic standards   create guidelines  for high
school computer science courses  to satisfy the "a-g" subject
requirements for the area of mathematics  , for purposes of
 recognition for  undergraduate admission to the
California State University and to the University of California,
respectively. 
    (b) As used in this section, the "a-g" subject requirements
constitute the pattern of college preparatory courses drawn from the
areas of history/social science, English, mathematics, laboratory
science, languages other than English, visual and performing arts,
and college-preparatory electives required for entrance as a
first-year student at the University of California.