Bill Text: CA SB1391 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 1391 (Prior Session Legislation)

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

Bill Title: Community colleges: inmate education programs: computation of apportionments.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 695, Statutes of 2014. [SB1391 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1391-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 1391	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 84810.5 of, and to add Section 84810.7 to,
the Education Code, relating to community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1391, as amended, Hancock. Community colleges: inmate education
programs: computation of apportionments.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges. Existing law requires the board of governors to
appoint a chief executive officer, to be known as the Chancellor of
the California Community Colleges.
   Existing law provides that, notwithstanding open course provisions
in statute or regulations of the board of governors, the governing
board of a community college district that provides classes for
inmates of certain facilities  , including a federal
correctional facility,  may include the units of full-time
equivalent students generated in those classes for purposes of state
apportionments.
   This bill would instead  require   waive
 the open course provisions in statute or regulations of the
board of governors  to be waived  for any governing
board of a community college district that provides  those
 classes for inmates  , including inmates of
  of those facilities and  state correctional
facilities, and would authorize the board of governors to include the
units of full-time equivalent students generated in those classes
for purposes of state apportionments.
   Existing law provides for the method of computing apportionments
for purposes of these inmate education programs.
   This bill would make revisions to that method of computation.
   The bill would prohibit a community college district from claiming
 , under the bill  , for purposes of
apportionments, any class for which a district receives full
compensation for its direct education costs for the conduct of the
class from any public or private agency, individual, or group of
individuals, or any class offered pursuant to a contract or
instructional agreement entered into between the district and a
public or private agency, individual, or group of individuals that
has received from another source full compensation for the costs the
district incurs under that contract or instructional agreement, as
prescribed.
   This bill would require the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the chancellor, to establish
the Innovative Career Technical Education Grant Program to provide
grants for inmates  and parolees recently released from
  in  state correctional facilities to attend
career technical education community college classes  for
purposes of accomplishing specified objectives   to be
offered at these facilities. The bill would require that the general
educational and workforce development goals and details regarding the
administration of the grant program be included in an interagency
agreement entered between the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation and the chancellor's office. The bill would require
the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop, in
collaboration with the chancellor's office, metrics for evaluations
of the efficacy and success of the grant program, and require the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to report findings from
conducting these evaluations to t   he Legislature and the
Governor, as specified. The bill would specify details of the career
technical education programs to be developed and provided by
community colleges with these grants  . The bill would require
the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in administering
the program, to transfer an unspecified amount from funds made
available in the 2014-15 Budget Act, and each fiscal year thereafter,
for purposes of the program. The bill would require the Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide  for up to 4
  an unspecified number of  grants to community
college career technical education programs that are provided for
inmates inside state correctional facilities, require that 
at least one of   an unspecified number of  these
grants be awarded for programs offered at a women's correctional
facility, and determine the amount of these grant awards.
   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 84810.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   84810.5.  (a) (1) Open course provisions in statute or regulations
of the board of governors shall be waived for any governing board of
a community college district that provides classes for inmates of
any city, county, or city and county jail, road camp, farm for
adults, or state or federal correctional facility. This section does
not authorize the waiver of open course provisions in any context or
situation other than those that are specifically authorized by this
section. Subject to limitations set forth in subdivision (b), the
board of governors may include the units of full-time equivalent
students (FTES) generated in those classes for purposes of state
apportionments.
   (2) The attendance hours generated by credit courses shall be
funded at the marginal credit rate determined pursuant to paragraph
(2) of subdivision (d) of Section 84750.5. The attendance hours
generated by noncredit courses shall be funded at the noncredit rate.

   (b) (1) A community college district shall not claim, for purposes
of state apportionments under this section, any class to which
either of the following applies:
   (A) The district receives full compensation for its direct
education costs for the conduct of the class from any public or
private agency, individual, or group of individuals.
   (B) The district has a contract or instructional agreement, or
both, for the conduct of the class with a public or private agency,
individual, or group of individuals that has received from another
source full compensation for the costs the district incurs under that
contract or instructional agreement.
   (2) In reporting a claim for apportionment to the Chancellor of
the California Community Colleges under this section, the district
shall report any partial compensation it receives from the sources
described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) during the
period for which the claim is made. The chancellor shall subtract the
amount of any partial compensation received from the total
apportionment to be paid.
   (c) This section does not provide a source of funds to shift,
supplant, or reduce the costs incurred by the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation in providing inmate education
programs.
  SEC. 2.  Section 84810.7 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   84810.7.  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
shall, in collaboration with the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges establish the Innovative Career Technical
Education Grant  Program to provide grants for inmates and
for parolees recently released from state correctional facilities to
attend career technical education community college classes for
purposes of accomplishing both of the following:  
Program. 
    (b)     The general educational and
workforce development goals and details regarding the administration
of the Innovative Career Technical Education Grant Program shall be
included in an interagency agreement entered between the Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Office of the Chancellor of
the California Community Colleges. The Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation shall, in collaboration with the Office of the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges develop metrics for
evaluations of the efficacy and success of the grant program.
Beginning in July of 2017, and every three years thereafter, the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall report findings
from conducting these evaluations to the Legislature and the
Governor.  
   (c) Grants shall be awarded to community colleges to offer career
technical education and workforce development programs for inmates in
state correctional facilities. The grants shall include funds for
the equipment and instructional materials necessary for the
instruction of these career technical education and workforce
development programs.  
   (d) Innovative career technical education programs developed and
provided by community colleges pursuant to this section shall provide
all of the following: 
   (1)  Providing inmates with skills   Career
technical education and experiential educational courses and training
 necessary to obtain high skill, high pay employment, or to
enter apprenticeship programs upon release from prison. 
   (2) Reducing recidivism by providing inmates and parolees recently
released from state correctional facilities with hands on learning
experience available in community college career technical education
classes, including classes within state correctional facilities.
 
   (2) Sequences of courses leading to industry, business, or state
certification.  
   (3) Community college courses that offer units transferable to the
University of California and the California State University. 

   (4) Information on reentry programs with job search assistance,
and, where possible, information about employers with a record of
hiring participants of the program with similar skills education upon
their release from prison.  
   (5) If applicable, information about preapprentice and
state-certified apprenticeship programs with a record of hiring
participants of the program with similar skills education upon their
release from prison.  
   (b) 
    (e)  (1) From funds made available to the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation in the 2014-15 Budget Act, and each
fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation shall, in administering the Innovative Career
Technical Education Grant Program, transfer the amount of ____
dollars ($____)  to the Office of   the Chancellor of
the California Community Colleges  for purposes of the program.
   (2) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide
for up to  four   _____  grants to
community college career technical education programs provided for
inmates inside state correctional facilities. The Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation  in collaboration with the Office
of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges  shall
 award   ensure  at least  one
  _____  of these grants  are awarded  for
programs offered at a women's correctional facility.
   (3) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall, in
consultation with the chancellor, determine the amount of the
 grants   grant  awards pursuant to
paragraph (2).