Bill Text: CA SB1357 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 1357 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Community colleges: Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1357 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1357-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 1357	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 29, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Block

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to  amend Section 76300   add Article
5.5 (commencing with Section 69438) to Chapter 1.7 of Part 42 of
Division 5 of Title 3  of the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1357, as amended, Block. Community colleges: 
enrollment fees.   Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos
Cal Grant Act: California Community Colleges Assistance Grant
Program. 
   Existing law establishes 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 requires community college
district governing boards to charge students an enrollment fee of $46
per unit per semester.  Existing law provides for the waiver
of this fee under certain circumstances.  
   Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant
Program, establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement awards, the
California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement awards,
the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards, the Cal Grant C awards, and
the Cal Grant T awards under the administration of the Student Aid
Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under
these programs for participating students attending qualifying
institutions. 
   This bill would  make a nonsubstantive change in this law
by deleting an obsolete provision.   establish the
California Community Colleges Assistance Grant Program. Commencing
with the 2017-18 award year, the bill would require the Student Aid
Commission to annually augment the awards of all recipients of Cal
Grant B Entitlement awards and Competitive Cal Grant B awards who are
enrolled as students at campuses   of the California
Community Colleges by $1,500. The bill would specify that the amounts
awarded under the bill would supplement, and not supplant, the 
 Cal Grant B awards and other student financial aid received by
those community college students. The bill would further specify that
these awards would be funded by appropriations from the General Fund
in the annual Budget Act. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Article 5.5 (commencing with Section
69438) is added to Chapter 1.7 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of
the   Education Code   , to read:  

      Article 5.5.  California Community Colleges Assistance Grant
Program


   69438.  Notwithstanding any other law:
   (a) The California Community Colleges Assistance Grant Program is
hereby established. Commencing with the 2017-18 award year, the
commission shall annually augment the awards of all recipients of Cal
Grant B Entitlement awards and Competitive Cal Grant B awards who
are enrolled as students at campuses of the California Community
Colleges by the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500).
The amounts awarded under this article shall supplement, and not
supplant, the Cal Grant B awards and other student financial aid
received by those community college students.
   (b) The awards made under this article shall be funded by an
appropriation from the General Fund made in the annual Budget Act.
 All matter omitted in this version of the bill appears in the
bill as introduced in the Senate, February 19, 2016. (JR11)