Bill Text: CA SB682 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California State University: student enrollment.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-6)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-09 - From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. [SB682 Detail]
Download: California-2013-SB682-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 682 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 15, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 15, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 2, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Senator Lara
( Principal coauthor: Senator
Block )
( Principal coauthor: Assembly Member
Garcia )
( Coauthors: Senators Beall,
Corbett, Correa, Evans,
Hueso, Padilla, and Torres )
( Coauthors: Assembly Members
Fong, Levine, Logue, Morrell,
Nestande, Olsen, V. Manuel Pérez,
Waldron, Wilk, and Williams
)
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
An act to add Section 60053 to the Education Code,
relating to instructional materials. An act relating
to the California State University, and making an appropriation
therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 682, as amended, Lara. Instructional materials:
digital versions. California State University: student
enrollment.
Existing law establishes the California State University, which is
administered by the Trustees of the California State University, as
one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state.
Existing law authorizes the trustees to, by rule, require all persons
to pay fees, rents, deposits, and charges for services, facilities,
or materials provided by the trustees to such persons, and requires
the trustees to control and expend all money appropriated for the
support and maintenance of the California State University.
This bill would appropriate $22,000,000 to the California State
University for purposes of enrolling additional students. The bill
would express legislative intent that the appropriated funds be used
for specified matters and would include legislative findings and
declarations related to student enrollment.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education and the
governing board of each school district maintaining one or more high
schools to adopt instructional materials for use in kindergarten and
grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and high schools, respectively. Existing
law authorizes the governing board of a school district to include
relevant technology-based materials when adopting instructional
materials for use in schools, if the materials are both available and
comparable to other equivalent instructional materials.
This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district
to provide a digital version of an adopted instructional material to
a pupil that may be downloaded onto an electronic device. The bill
would provide that during the school year digital versions of an
adopted instructional material may be provided to pupils in
compliance with a specified court case settlement agreement. The bill
would provide that at the end of the school year digital versions of
an adopted instructional material supplied to pupils may be retained
by those pupils provided that the retention of the digital version
of an adopted instructional material does not violate any copyright
law or contract between the school district and publisher or
manufacturer.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no yes
. Fiscal committee: no yes .
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:
(a) Since the enactment of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher
Education, California's system of public postsecondary education has
provided access to affordable, high-quality educational opportunities
that have fueled California's economic growth and promoted social
mobility.
(b) Since the 2007-08 fiscal year, California's economic crisis
and resulting budget reductions have forced the California State
University to turn away tens of thousands of eligible students. For
the 2013-14 academic year, the California State University estimates
that as many as 30,000 eligible students will be denied admission
because the Budget Act of 2013 did not include adequate funding for
enrollment growth.
(c) In the Budget Act of 2013, the Legislature strengthened its
commitment to college affordability for all needy students by
maintaining the Cal Grant Program awards and establishing the Middle
Class Scholarship Program to ensure that California's four-year
public postsecondary institutions will continue to be financially
reasonable for families with annual household incomes that do not
exceed $150,000.
(d) The Public Policy Institute of California projects that
California's workforce will have one million fewer graduates than it
needs in 2025, and that increasing transfer rates from community
colleges to four-year postsecondary educational institutions would
dramatically reduce the education skills and workforce gaps.
(e) With the historic passage of Senate Bill 1440 in the 2010-11
Regular Session, the state reaffirmed the importance of community
college transfers to the state and sought to increase the number of
students transferring from the California Community Colleges to the
California State University by establishing an associate degree for
transfer.
(f) The California State University plays a critical role in
meeting the state's workforce needs by annually awarding one-half of
all bachelor's degrees in the state and graduating 100,000 students
per year. Despite this substantial contribution to the state's
workforce, the California State University can increase the number of
degrees awarded and graduating students if funding is available to
serve additional students.
SEC. 2. (a) The sum of twenty-two million dollars
($22,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the
California State University for purposes of enrolling additional
students.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the appropriation
made in subdivision (a) be used to enroll community college transfer
students in the 2014 spring semester or quarter.
(c) It is also the intent of the Legislature that the
appropriation made in subdivision (a) be made every year to provide
access to classes and support services for community college transfer
students and future students.
SECTION 1. Section 60053 is added to the
Education Code, to read:
60053. (a) The governing board of a school district may provide a
digital version of an adopted instructional material to a pupil that
may be downloaded onto an electronic device.
(b) During the school year, digital versions of an adopted
instructional material may be provided to pupils in compliance with
the settlement agreement in the case of Williams v. State of
California (Case Number CGC-00-312236 of the Superior Court for the
County of San Francisco).At the end of the school year, digital
versions of an adopted instructional material supplied to pupils
pursuant to this section may be retained by those pupils provided
that the retention of the digital version of an adopted instructional
material does not violate any copyright law or contract between the
school district and publisher or manufacturer.
