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AB 26 Fong, Mike D Personal Income Tax Law: exclusion: federal student loan debt relief plan.
Status: 4/24/2023-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Position Support
Laws: An act to add and repeal Section 17132.12 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.
Summary:
The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, including an exclusion for the amount of student loan indebtedness repaid or canceled pursuant to a specified federal law. This bill would exclude from an individual’s gross income, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, any amount of qualified student loan debt, as defined, that is discharged under the federal student loan debt relief plan, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 91 Alvarez D Community colleges: exemption from nonresident tuition fee: San Diego and Imperial Counties Community Colleges Association.
Status: 4/19/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 76140 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
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 establishes community college districts throughout the state and authorizes them to operate campuses and provide instruction to students. Existing law authorizes community college districts to admit nonresident students, and requires that nonresident students be charged a nonresident tuition fee unless an exemption applies. Existing law includes among these exemptions any nonresident who is both a citizen and resident of a foreign country if the nonresident has demonstrated a financial need, as specified. Existing law authorizes the attendance of certain exempted, nonresident students to be reported as resident full-time equivalent students (FTES) for state apportionment purposes. This bill would additionally exempt from the nonresident tuition fee a nonresident, low-income student who is a resident of Mexico, registers for lower division courses at a San Diego and Imperial Counties Community Colleges Association (SDICCCA) college, as defined, and has residence within 45 miles of the California-Mexico border, as provided. The bill would, in any academic year, prohibit more than 150 FTES at each SDICCCA college from being exempted from payment of the nonresident tuition fee. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 211 Committee on Budget Budget Act of 2023.
Status: 4/12/2023-Referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
Position Watch
Laws: An act relating to the Budget Act of 2023.
Summary:
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes, relating to the Budget Act of 2023.

AB 247 Muratsuchi D Education finance: school facilities: Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2024.
Status: 4/13/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to amend Sections 17070.25, 17070.43, 17070.50, 17070.51, 17071.75, 17072.30, 17072.35, 17073.15, 17074.16, 17074.25, 17075.15, 17077.35, 17078.52, and 17078.58 of, to add Sections 17070.42, 17070.59, 17073.16, 17074.265, and 17075.20 to, to add Article 10.7 (commencing with Section 17077.60) and Article 11.5 (commencing with Section 17078.40) to Chapter 12.5 of Part 10 of Division 1 of Title 1 of, to add Part 72 (commencing with Section 101400) to Division 14 of Title 3 of, and to repeal and add Section 17075.10 of, the Education Code, relating to education finance, by providing the funds necessary therefor through an election for the issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California and for the handling and disposition of these funds.
Summary:
(1)The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (1) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (2) has been passed by a 2/3 vote of all the Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (3) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (4) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election. This bill would set forth the Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2024 as a state general obligation bond act that would provide an unspecified amount to construct and modernize education facilities, as specified. This bond act would become operative only if approved by the voters at an unspecified 2024 statewide election. The bill would also provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at that election. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 260 Santiago D Community colleges: part-time employees.
Status: 4/19/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Co-Sponsor
Laws: An act to amend Section 87482.3 of, and to add Section 87815.5 to, the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes the establishment of community college districts under the administration of community college governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction at community college campuses throughout the state. Existing law authorizes these districts to establish compensation levels for academic employees, as provided. Existing law requires community college districts, as a condition of receiving funding allocated for the Student Success and Support Program, to negotiate in good faith with the exclusive representatives for part-time, temporary faculty, the terms of reemployment preference for part-time, temporary faculty assignments based on minimum standards up to the range of 60% to 67% of a full-time equivalent load and a regular evaluation process for part-time, temporary faculty, as specified. Existing law establishes procedures for community college districts to demonstrate compliance with these requirements. This bill would require persons who are employed to teach adult or community college classes part time, as provided, to receive compensation in at least an amount that bears the same ratio to the amount provided to full-time employees as the time actually served by those part-time employees bears to the time actually served by full-time employees with comparable duties. The bill would impose this pay requirement upon the expiration or renewal of existing collective bargaining agreements, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 264 Ting D Community colleges: Lunar New Year holiday.
Status: 4/10/2023-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 79020 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
Summary:
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of a person, status, or event, including Lunar New Year. Existing law requires community colleges to close on specified holidays, including February 12, known as “Lincoln Day,” and the third Monday in February, known as “Washington Day.” This bill would authorize the governing board of a community college district, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, to replace closing on Lincoln Day or Washington Day with the date corresponding with the second new moon following the winter solstice, or the third new moon following the winter solstice should an intercalary month intervene, known as “Lunar New Year.”

AB 274 Bryan D CalWORKs: CalFresh: eligibility: income exclusions.
Status: 4/24/2023-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 11157 of, and to add Section 18901.09 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.
Summary:
Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds to eligible states through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program. Existing state law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds received through the TANF program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Under existing law, certain types of payments received by recipients of aid under the CalWORKs program, including, among others, an award or scholarship provided by a public or private entity to, or on behalf of, a dependent child are exempt from consideration as income for purposes of determining eligibility and aid amount. Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the eligibility of households to be determined to the extent permitted by federal law. Existing federal regulation provides states with the option to exclude, for purposes of calculating a household’s income under SNAP, any type of income that the state excludes when determining eligibility or benefits for TANF cash assistance. This bill would exempt any grant, award, scholarship, loan, or fellowship benefit provided to any assistance unit member for educational purposes from consideration as income for purposes of determining CalWORKs eligibility or grant amounts. The bill would also require, to the extent permitted by federal law, regulation, or guidance, or a waiver thereof, the State Department of Social Services to exercise a federal option to exclude, for purposes of calculating a household’s income under CalFresh, any type of income that the department excludes when determining eligibility or benefits for CalWORKs. This bill would require the department to implement these provisions through an all-county letter or similar instruction until regulations are adopted. By expanding the scope of eligibility for CalWORKs and CalFresh, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 299 Holden D Hazing: educational institutions: civil liability.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to add Section 32050 to the Education Code, relating to hazing.
Summary:
Existing law makes it unlawful to engage in hazing, which is defined as a method of initiation or preinitiation into a student organization or student body, whether or not the organization or body is officially recognized by an educational institution, that is likely to cause serious bodily injury to a former, current, or prospective student of a school, community college, college, university, or other educational institution in the state. Existing law establishes civil liability for hazing participants or the organization if it is involved in the hazing. This bill would additionally establish civil liability for an educational institution if the institution has direct involvement in, or knew or should have known of, the hazing practices of the organization to which the student is seeking membership and the organization involved in the hazing is affiliated with the educational institution at the time of the alleged hazing incident. The bill would specify that an educational institution that should have known of those hazing practices includes an institution that fails to proactively prevent, discover, or stop the hazing practices. For purposes of determining whether an educational institution fails to proactively prevent, discover, or stop the hazing practices, the bill would authorize consideration of the extent to which the institution had specific antihazing measures in place at the time of the alleged hazing incident.

AB 311 Santiago D California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits.
Status: 4/19/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 18930 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.
Summary:
Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a food assistance program, known as the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP), to provide assistance to a noncitizen of the United States if the person’s immigration status meets the eligibility criteria of SNAP in effect on August 21, 1996, but the person is not eligible for SNAP benefits solely due to their immigration status, as specified. Existing law also makes eligible for the program an applicant who is otherwise eligible for the program, but who entered the United States on or after August 22, 1996, if the applicant is sponsored and the applicant meets one of a list of criteria, including that the applicant, after entry into the United States, is a victim of the sponsor or the spouse of the sponsor if the spouse is living with the sponsor. Existing law, to become operative on the date that the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System (SAWS) has been updated to perform the necessary automation, and subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, makes an individual 55 years of age or older eligible for the program if the individual’s immigration status is the sole basis for their ineligibility for CalFresh benefits. This bill would remove that age limitation and make any individual eligible for the program if the individual’s immigration status is the sole basis for their ineligibility for CalFresh benefits. By extending eligibility for CFAP, which is administered by the counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 320 Lee D Student Aid Commission.
Status: 4/20/2023-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Sections 69510, 69511, and 69511.5 of the Education Code, relating to student financial aid.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for the administration of state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. Existing law requires the commission to include 2 members, appointed by the Governor, who are students enrolled in a California postsecondary educational institution. This bill would instead require the commission to include 4 student members, one from each of the following: the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and a California private postsecondary educational institution.

AB 358 Addis D Community college districts: student housing.
Status: 4/12/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 81050.5 of the Education Code, and to amend Section 4454.5 of the Government Code, relating to housing.
Summary:
The Field Act requires the Department of General Services to supervise the design and construction of any school building, including both school district and community college district buildings, or, if the estimated cost exceeds $100,000, the reconstruction or alteration of or addition to any school building, to ensure that plans and specifications comply with the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to the act and with relevant building standards, and to ensure that the work of construction has been performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications. Existing law requires the Department of General Services, for purposes relating to access and use by persons with disabilities, to issue a written approval of the plans and specifications of certain buildings and facilities, as provided. Existing law defines “school building” for these purposes, and excludes from that definition any building that serves or is intended to serve as residential housing for school district and community college district teachers and employees, and their families. This bill would additionally exclude from these requirements any building used as a residence for students attending a campus of a community college district, except upon a request by the community college district, as specified.

AB 395 Reyes D California Community College Guided Pathways Grant Program.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to add Section 88923 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Community College Guided Pathways Grant Program under the administration of the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and requires the chancellor’s office to distribute grants, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to community colleges that satisfy certain requirements, including, among other requirements, integration of existing student-success programs and development of clearly structured, coherent guided pathways programs, as defined. This bill, on or before August 1, 2024, and on or before August 1 of every even-numbered year thereafter, would require each community college to develop an educational plan, as provided, to provide a detailed sequence of courses for each degree, certificate, diploma, or license, or any other form of transfer to a postsecondary educational institution, offered by the community college and ensure that the community college offers the courses required for a degree, certificate, diploma, or license, or any other pathway of transfer to a postsecondary educational institution, in a consistent manner to ensure students can plan their academic futures. The bill, on or before June 1, 2025, and on or before June 1 of every even-numbered year thereafter, would require the chancellor’s office to submit a report to the Director of Finance and the Legislature, based on the educational plans received from community colleges, as specified, that includes a summary of the educational plans and related information, as provided. By imposing new duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 456 Maienschein D Public postsecondary education: campus mental health hotlines.
Status: 4/19/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 66027.8 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
Summary:
(1)Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the California State University under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the University of California under the administration of the Regents of the University of California as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law authorizes each campus of the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the University of California to establish a campus mental health hotline for students to access mental health services remotely. This bill would instead require each campus of the California State University and the California Community Colleges without a campus mental health hotline, and would request the University of California, to establish a campus mental health hotline for students to access mental health services remotely that operates during working hours, as provided. The bill would authorize a campus to utilize text hotlines or online messaging platforms offered by the campus if a verbal hotline cannot be established. The bill would require a campus mental health hotline to direct a student to specified persons, including, among others, to a licensed mental health therapist. The bill would, outside of working hours, authorize a campus mental health hotline to direct a caller to specified services and phone numbers, including, among others, to 911. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 461 Ramos D Student safety: fentanyl test strips.
Status: 4/19/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 67384 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
Summary:
Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district and the Trustees of the California State University, in collaboration with campus-based and community-based recovery advocacy organizations, to provide, as part of established campus orientations, educational and preventive information provided by the State Department of Public Health about opioid overdose and the use and location of opioid overdose reversal medication to students at all campuses of their respective segments. Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district and the Trustees of the California State University to require that each campus health center apply to use the statewide standing order issued by the State Public Health Officer to distribute dosages of a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication, and apply to participate in the Naloxone Distribution Project administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law requires a campus health center, upon approval for use of the statewide standing order and participation in the Naloxone Distribution Project, to distribute a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication, as specified. Existing law requests that the Regents of the University of California comply with these requirements. This bill would require the governing board of each community college district and the Trustees of the California State University to provide information about the use and location of fentanyl test strips as part of established campus orientations and to notify students of the presence and location of fentanyl test strips. The bill would require the governing board of each community college district and the Trustees of the California State University to require that each campus health center stock and distribute fentanyl test strips, as specified. By imposing new duties on community college districts, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program. The bill would request that the Regents of the University of California comply with these requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 472 Wicks D Classified school district and community college employees: compulsory leaves of absence: compensation.
Status: 4/12/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Sections 45190 and 88190 of the Education Code, relating to classified employees.
Summary:
Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to employ persons for positions not requiring certification qualifications and the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic. For those employees, known as the classified service, existing law authorizes those governing boards to grant leaves of absence and vacations with or without pay. This bill would explicitly provide that the above-referenced authority of the governing boards of school districts and community college districts, to grant leaves of absence and vacations with or without pay, applies to voluntary leaves of absence and vacations. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 506 Fong, Mike D California State University: graduation requirement: ethnic studies.
Status: 4/18/2023-Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to amend Section 89032 of, and to add Section 89032.5 to, the Education Code, relating to the California State University.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California State University and its various campuses under the administration of the Board of Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the California State University to provide for courses in ethnic studies at each of its campuses. Existing law, commencing with students graduating in the 2024–25 academic year, requires the California State University to require, as an undergraduate graduation requirement, the completion of, at minimum, one 3-unit course in ethnic studies. This bill would delay the requirement for the California State University to require one 3-unit ethnic studies course as an undergraduate graduation requirement by one year to instead commence with students graduating in the 2025–26 academic year. The bill would require the California State University to collaborate with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the Academic Senate of the California State University, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, the California Community Colleges Ethnic Studies Faculty Council, and the California State University Council on Ethnic Studies to develop a process for the California State University to approve community college ethnic studies courses, as meeting the requirements of a California State University ethnic studies course provided pursuant to these provisions, for students who transfer to the California State University from California Community Colleges.

AB 607 Kalra D Public postsecondary education: course materials.
Status: 4/19/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 66406.9 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
Summary:
Existing law requires each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and requests each campus of the University of California, to clearly highlight the courses that exclusively use digital course materials, as specified, and clearly communicate to students that the course materials for these courses are free of charge and therefore not required to be purchased. This bill would require each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and request each campus of the University of California, to prominently display the estimated costs for each course of all required course materials and fees directly related to those materials, for no less than 75% of the total number of courses on the online campus course schedule. The bill would define, for purposes of this requirement, “course materials” to include digital or physical textbooks, devices such as calculators and remote attendance platforms, and software subscriptions. By imposing new duties on community college district, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 610 Holden D Youth Transit Pass Pilot Program: free youth transit passes.
Status: 4/21/2023-Introduced measure version corrected.
Position Support
Laws: An act to add and repeal Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 99100) of Part 11 of Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation.
Summary:
Existing law declares that the fostering, continuance, and development of public transportation systems are a matter of state concern. Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to administer various programs and allocates moneys for various public transportation purposes. Upon the appropriation of moneys by the Legislature, this bill would create the Youth Transit Pass Pilot Program, administered by the department, for purposes of awarding grants to transit agencies for the costs of creating, designing, developing, advertising, distributing, and implementing free youth transit passes to persons attending certain educational institutions, providing free transit service to holders of those passes, and administering and participating in the program, as specified. The bill would authorize a transit agency to submit a grant application in partnership with one or more educational institutions and would also authorize grant funds to be used to maintain, subsidize, or expand an existing fare free program, as provided. The bill would authorize a transit agency with an existing fare free program that enables a person 18 years of age or younger to use a transit agency’s bus and rail services without paying any additional fare or charge to submit an application without an educational institution partner, as provided. The bill would require the department to submit a report to specified committees of the Legislature on or before January 1, 2028, on, among other things, the outcomes of the program and the funding conditions associated with offering free youth transit passes, the status of transit pass programs statewide, and whether these provisions led to reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases and vehicle miles traveled, as provided. The bill would repeal its provisions as of January 1, 2029.This bill contains other existing laws.

AB 634 Ward D Community colleges: career development and college preparation courses.
Status: 4/19/2023-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 84760.5 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Summary:
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 makes specified community college career development and college preparation courses and specified classes for which credit is not given eligible for state funding. This bill would require the board of governors to adopt regulations, no later than May 31, 2024, requiring the accounting, for purposes of state funding of community colleges, of students enrolled in certain types of courses to be conducted by positive attendance count or on a census date basis in accord with certain computational requirements. To the extent these provisions would add additional duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 654 Cervantes D University of California: ethnic studies.
Status: 4/4/2023-Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to add Article 6.1 (commencing with Section 92652) to Chapter 6 of Part 57 of Division 9 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to the University of California.
Summary:
The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust, and requires the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. These provisions grant the regents all the powers necessary or convenient for the effective administration of its trust. This bill would request the University of California to establish an ethnic studies undergraduate graduation requirement at the university.

AB 680 Rubio, Blanca D Public postsecondary education: nonresident tuition: exemption.
Status: 4/12/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 68130.5 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
Summary:
Existing law exempts a student, other than a person excluded from the term “immigrant,” as defined, from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges if, among other conditions, the student has a total of 3 or more years of full-time attendance in certain California schools or attainment of equivalent credits earned while in those schools, as specified, or the student completes 3 or more years of full-time high school coursework in California and a total of 3 or more years of attendance in California elementary schools and California secondary schools. This bill would authorize, as an alternative to the above-referenced 3 or more years exemption conditions, either (1) completion of 60 semester units of credit or 90 quarter units of credit at a campus or campuses of the California Community Colleges, or (2) attainment of an associate degree for transfer. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 760 Wilson D California State University and University of California: records: affirmed name and gender identification.
Status: 4/12/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 66271.41 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
Summary:
The Donahoe Higher Education Act establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The Equity in Higher Education Act requires a public postsecondary educational institution, including a campus of the University of California and the California State University, to update a former student’s records to include an updated legal name or gender if the institution receives government-issued documentation from a former student demonstrating that the former student’s legal name or gender has been changed. Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district to implement a process by which current students, staff, and faculty can declare an affirmed name, gender, or both name and gender identification to be used in records where legal names are not required by law. Existing law prohibits a community college campus from charging a higher fee for correcting, updating, or reissuing a document or record based on the declaration of an affirmed name or gender identification than the fee it charges for correcting, updating, or reissuing that document or record generally. This bill would additionally require the Trustees of the California State University, and would request the Regents of the University of California, to implement a system by which current students, staff, and faculty can declare an affirmed name, gender, or both name and gender identification, as provided. The bill would, commencing with the 2024–25 academic year, require California State University campus systems, and would request University of California campus systems, to be fully capable of allowing current students, staff, or faculty to declare an affirmed name, gender, or both name and gender identification. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 789 Berman D Student financial aid: Cal Grants: satisfactory academic progress.
Status: 4/24/2023-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 69432.7 of the Education Code, relating to student financial aid.
Summary:
Existing law, the Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Expanded Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer 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. Existing law establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. For a student to qualify for a Cal Grant award, existing law requires that the student, among other things, make satisfactory academic progress at a qualifying institution. Existing law defines “satisfactory academic progress” as those criteria required by applicable federal standards published in Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Existing law authorizes the commission to adopt regulations defining “satisfactory academic progress” in a manner that is consistent with the federal standards. This bill would require, as part of the criteria to be a qualifying institution under the Cal Grant Program, an institution, by the start of the 2024–25 academic year, to comply with various requirements regarding “satisfactory academic progress” standards used to determine if a student qualifies for a Cal Grant and to develop and implement policies defining “satisfactory academic progress” in a manner that is consistent with the federal standards. The bill would also require the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the office of the Chancellor of the California State University, and as a condition of participation in the Cal Grant Program, the office of the President of the University of California to, among other things, annually report certain information regarding students who became ineligible to receive financial aid because they did not achieve satisfactory academic progress. The bill would delete the commission’s authorization to adopt regulations defining “satisfactory academic progress.”

AB 811 Fong, Mike D Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: repeating credit courses.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Co-Sponsor
Laws: An act to add, repeal, and add Section 78213.3 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
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 3 times, a credit course in arts, humanities, kinesiology, foreign languages, and English as a second language, for which the student previously received a satisfactory grade and which the student is retaking for enrichment or skill-building purposes, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1096 Fong, Mike D Educational instruction: language of instruction.
Status: 3/16/2023-Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 30 of the Education Code, relating to educational instruction.
Summary:
Existing law requires English to be the basic language of instruction in all schools and authorizes the governing board of a school district or community college district, and any private school to determine when and under what circumstances instruction may be given bilingually. Existing law declares that it is the policy of the state to ensure the mastery of English by all pupils in schools, as provided. This bill would authorize a community college to offer courses taught in languages other than English without requiring students who enroll in those courses to concurrently enroll in an English as a Second Language (ESL) course.

AB 1142 Fong, Mike D Postsecondary education: Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education in California.
Status: 3/2/2023-Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to add Article 2.3 (commencing with Section 66010.8) to Chapter 2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions as the segments of postsecondary education in this state. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that budget and policy decisions regarding postsecondary education generally adhere to 3 specified goals and that appropriate metrics be identified, defined, and formally adopted to monitor progress toward the achievement of the goals. Existing law establishes the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) as the statewide postsecondary education coordinating and planning agency, and provides for its functions and responsibilities. Existing law also provides for the composition of CPEC’s membership. The annual state Budget Acts from the 2011–12 fiscal year to the 2021–22 fiscal year, inclusive, have provided no funding for CPEC. This bill would establish the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education in California, composed of 5 public members with experience in postsecondary education, appointed as specified, as the statewide postsecondary education oversight, coordination, and planning entity. The bill would require the commission to develop and publish an independent annual report on the condition of higher education in California, as provided. The bill would establish other functions and responsibilities of the commission, which would include specified advisory duties and exercising the powers, duties, and functions of a statewide postsecondary education oversight, coordination, and planning entity in issues relating to all postsecondary educational institutions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1163 Rivas, Luz D State forms: gender identity.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to add Section 14776 to the Government Code, relating to state government administration.
Summary:
Existing law requires the Director of General Services to establish and staff within the Department of General Services the forms management center for the orderly design, implementation, and maintenance of a statewide forms management program. Existing law requires each state agency to appoint a forms management representative and provide necessary assistance to implement the program within the agency. This bill would require specified state agencies and departments to revise their public-use forms, by January 1, 2025, to be more inclusive of individuals who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, or intersex. This bill would require the agencies to revise their forms to allow individuals to provide their accurate gender identification. This bill would also require the impacted agencies and departments to collect data pertaining to the specific needs of the transgender, gender nonconforming, or intersex community, including, but not limited to, information relating to medical care, mental health disparities, and population size.

AB 1166 Bains D Liability for opioid antagonist administration.
Status: 4/10/2023-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Position Support
Laws: An act to add Section 1799.113 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to emergency response.
Summary:
Existing law provides that a person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency is not liable for civil damages resulting from an act or omission other than an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. This bill would provide that a person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency treatment at the scene of an opioid overdose or suspected opioid overdose by administering an opioid antagonist, as defined, is not liable for civil damages resulting from an act or omission, except as specified. The bill would also provide that a person who furnishes an opioid antagonist for use at the scene of an opioid overdose or suspected opioid overdose is not liable for civil damages resulting from an act or omission, except as specified.

AB 1190 Irwin D Community colleges: part-time faculty: office hours.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Co-Sponsor
Laws: An act to amend Section 87482.3 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes the establishment of community college districts under the administration of community college governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction at community college campuses throughout the state. Existing law authorizes these districts to establish compensation levels for academic employees, as provided. Existing law requires community college districts, as a condition of receiving funding allocated for the Student Success and Support Program, to negotiate in good faith with the exclusive representatives for part-time, temporary faculty, the terms of reemployment preference for part-time, temporary faculty assignments based on minimum standards up to the range of 60% to 67% of a full-time equivalent load and a regular evaluation process for part-time, temporary faculty, as specified. This bill would require community college districts, as a condition of receiving funds allocated for the Student Success and Support Program, to commence negotiating the terms of compensation for office hours for part-time employees, as specified, and the terms governing reemployment preferences and evaluation processes, no later than the expiration of any negotiated agreement in effect on January 1, 2024, and for any community college district that does not have a collective bargaining agreement in effect as of January 1, 2024, on January 1, 2024.

AB 1275 Arambula D Community colleges: student-run community college organizations: open meetings: teleconferences.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to amend Section 54953 of the Government Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use teleconferencing for its meetings subject to certain requirements, including, among others, public notice of, and access to, each teleconference location and posting of a meeting agenda at each of the teleconference locations. Existing law, until January 1, 2026, exempts a local agency from these requirements if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location and other requirements are met. Existing law requires the meetings of the statewide community college student organization that has been recognized by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to be open to the public and to comply with the act. This bill would authorize the recognized statewide community college student organization and other student-run community college organizations to use teleconferencing for their meetings without having to (1) post agendas at all teleconferencing locations, (2) identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda, (3) make each teleconference location accessible to the public, and (4) require that a quorum of the student organization’s members participate from a singular physical location. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1524 Lowenthal D Postsecondary education: on-campus access to drug testing devices.
Status: 4/19/2023-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to add Section 66027.3 to the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions as the segments of postsecondary education in the state.This bill would require the California State University and community college districts to stock an adequate supply of drug testing devices, as defined, available and accessible, free-of-charge, at no fewer than one designated and accessible location on each campus and post a notice on these requirements in a prominent and conspicuous location in all women’s restrooms and men’s restrooms, as specified. The bill would encourage the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions to implement these provisions. By imposing new duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1540 Fong, Mike D Postsecondary education: nonresident tuition: exemption.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 68130.5 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Summary:
Existing law exempts a student, except as specified, from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges if, among other conditions, the student has a total of 3 or more years of full-time attendance in certain California schools or attainment of equivalent credits earned while in those schools, as specified, or the student completes 3 or more years of full-time high school coursework in California and a total of 3 or more years of attendance in California elementary schools or California secondary schools, and, in the case of a person without lawful immigration status, has filed an affidavit with the institution of higher education stating that the student has filed an application to legalize the student’s immigration status, or will file an application as soon as the student is eligible to do so. This bill would require the California State University and California Community Colleges, and request the University of California and independent institutions of higher education, to accept an affidavit provided to the Student Aid Commission as part of the student’s financial aid application for purposes of the affidavit requirement described above, as specified. By imposing new duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other existing laws.

AB 1541 Fong, Mike D Community colleges: governing board membership: student members.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 72023.5 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district to order the inclusion within the membership of the governing board of one or more nonvoting students, who are enrolled in a community college of the district, and chosen by students enrolled in the community colleges of the district, in accordance with procedures prescribed by the governing board.This bill would give each student member of the governing board of a community college district an advisory vote, as specified. This bill would also make conforming changes. By requiring community college districts to revise governing board procedures, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1542 Fong, Mike D Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges: student members: Student Success Completion Grant program awards.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Sections 71004 and 88931 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. The board of governors consists of 18 voting members, including 2 voting student members appointed by the Governor. Existing law requires that members of the board receive their actual and necessary traveling expenses while on official business and that each member also receive $100 for each day the member is attending to official business. The campuses of the California Community Colleges administer the Community Colleges Student Success Completion Grant program which requires, for a student to qualify to receive a grant award, that the student receive a Cal Grant B or C award, make satisfactory academic progress, and be a California resident or exempt from paying nonresident tuition. This bill would award Community Colleges Student Success Completion Grant program awards to student members of the board of governors, as specified. To the extent the bill would impose new duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1543 Fong, Mike D Community colleges: student representation fees.
Status: 4/19/2023-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 76060.5 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to authorize the students of a college to organize a student body association. If a student body association has been established by a community college, existing law requires the officials of the community college to collect a $2 student representation fee to be used to provide support for governmental affairs representatives of local or statewide student body organizations. Existing law requires $1 of every $2 fee to be expended to establish and support the operations of a statewide community college student organization, as specified. Existing law requires a community college to provide a student a means to refuse to pay the $2 student representation fee. This bill would require the other $1 of the $2 student representation fee to be used to establish and support the operations of local student body organizations. The bill would also require a community college to provide a student a means to refuse to pay either $1 portion of the $2 student representation fee.

AB 1630 Garcia D Planning and zoning: housing development approvals: student housing projects.
Status: 3/22/2023-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Position Support
Laws: An act to add Section 65914.8 to the Government Code, relating to land use.
Summary:
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes the legislative body of any county or city, pursuant to specified procedures, to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among other things, that the development and the site on which it is located satisfy specified location, urbanization, and zoning requirements. This bill would enact The Student Housing Crisis Act of 2023. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to classify student and faculty and staff housing as a permitted use on all real property within 1,000 feet of a university campus, as defined, for zoning purposes. The bill would require a proposed student or faculty and staff housing project, as defined, to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or a hearing, if specified requirements are met, including that a minimum of 20% of the units in the project be rented by students or faculty and staff of the university. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing or enforcing on a student or faculty and staff housing project subject to ministerial consideration certain restrictions, including a minimum automobile parking requirement. The bill would require student or faculty and staff housing to have certain recorded deed restrictions, except as provided, that ensure for at least 55 years that, among other things, at least 20% of the units are affordable to lower income households, as defined, except as provided. In connection with an application submitted pursuant to these provisions, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to take specified actions, including, upon the request of the applicant, provide a list of permits and fees that are required by the city, county, or city and county. By imposing new duties on local jurisdictions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require a proponent of a student or faculty and staff housing project subject to ministerial consideration to require in contracts with construction contracts and certify to the local government that certain standards will be met in project construction, including that a student or faculty and staff housing project that is not in its entirety a public work, as defined, shall be subject to certain requirements, including to pay all construction workers employed in the executing of the student or faculty and staff housing project at least the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for the type of work and geographic area, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1749 McCarty D Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act: University of California.
Status: 4/4/2023-Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to amend Sections 66746, 66747, 66748, 66748.5, and 66749 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
Summary:
Existing law, the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, requires a student who earns an associate degree for transfer to be deemed eligible for transfer into a California State University baccalaureate degree program if they meet certain requirements. The act also requires the California State University to guarantee admission with junior status to a community college student who meets those requirements, and provides that admission to the California State University under these provisions does not guarantee admission for specific majors or campuses. A student admitted to the California State University pursuant to the act is entitled to receive priority over all other community college transfer students, excluding community college students who have entered into a transfer agreement between a community college and the California State University before the fall term of the 2012–13 academic year. Existing law requires the California Community Colleges and the California State University, in consultation with specified parties, to develop a student-centered communication and marketing strategy in order to increase the visibility of the associate degree for transfer pathway for all students in California. This bill would, commencing with the 2025–26 academic year, expand the above provisions of the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act to additionally require that a student who earns an associate degree for transfer be deemed eligible for transfer into a University of California baccalaureate degree program if they meet certain requirements. The bill would require the University of California to guarantee admission with junior status to a community college student, as specified, and would provide that a student admitted to the University of California pursuant to this act is entitled to receive priority over all other community college transfer students, excluding community college students who have entered into a transfer agreement between a community college and the University of California before the fall term of the 2025–26 academic year. This bill contains other existing laws.

SB 11 Menjivar D California State University: mental health counseling.
Status: 4/12/2023-Set for hearing April 26.
Position Support
Laws: An act to add Article 6 (commencing with Section 89360) to Chapter 3 of Part 55 of Division 8 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to the California State University.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. The California State University comprises 23 institutions of higher education located throughout the state. This bill would require the trustees to comply with various requirements on mental health counseling at CSU, including having one full-time equivalent California-licensed mental health counselor per 1,500 students enrolled at each CSU campus. The bill, contingent upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the CSU Mental Health Professionals Act to provide incentives for CSU students to become mental health counselors in the state. The bill would define “mental health counselor” for purposes of these provisions.

SB 28 Glazer D Education finance: school facilities: Public Preschool, K–12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2024.
Status: 4/21/2023-Set for hearing May 1.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to amend Sections 14503, 15102, 15106, 15268, 15270, 17070.15, 17070.43, 17070.51, 17070.65, 17071.10, 17071.25, 17071.75, 17072.30, 17072.35, 17073.15, 17073.25, 17074.10, 17074.16, 17074.25, 17075.15, 17077.35, 17078.52, 17078.53, 17078.54, 17078.58, 17078.62, and 17219 of, to amend, repeal, and add Section 17070.75 of, to add Sections 17070.415, 17070.54, 17070.56, 17070.57, 17070.59, and 17075.20 to, to add Article 10.7 (commencing with Section 17077.60) and Article 11.5 (commencing with Section 17078.40) to Chapter 12.5 of Part 10 of Division 1 of Title 1 of, to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 89800) to Chapter 6 of Part 55 of Division 8 of Title 3 of, to add Article 7 (commencing with Section 92170) to Chapter 2 of Part 57 of Division 9 of Title 3 of, to add Part 71 (commencing with Section 101200) to Division 14 of Title 3 of, to repeal Sections 17070.53, 17070.76, 17070.766, 17070.99, 17072.15, 17072.17, 17072.25, 17072.32, 17074.15, 17074.27, and 17078.66 of, and to repeal and add Section 17075.10 of, the Education Code, and to amend Section 39619.6 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to education finance, by providing the funds necessary therefor through an election for the issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California and for the handling and disposition of these funds.
Summary:
Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district or community college district to order an election and submit to the electors of the district the question of whether the bonds of the district shall be issued and sold to raise money for specified purposes. Existing law generally requires, to pass a school bond measure, that either at least 2/3 of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds to pass the measure, or, if certain conditions are met, at least 55% of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds. Existing law prohibits the total amount of bonds issued by a school district or community college district from exceeding 1.25% of the taxable property of the district, as provided. This bill would raise that limit to 2%. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 59 Skinner D Menstrual Product Accessibility Act.
Status: 4/17/2023-April 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Position Support
Laws: An act to add Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 24300) to Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to menstrual products.
Summary:
Existing law requires certain public schools, as specified, to stock the school’s restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women’s restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom, at all times. Existing law also requires the California State University and each community college district to stock an adequate supply of menstrual products, available and accessible, free of cost, at no fewer than one designated and accessible central location on each campus. This bill would enact the Menstrual Product Accessibility Act, which would require all women’s restrooms, all all-gender restrooms, and at least one men’s restroom in a building owned by the state or in the portion of a building where the state rents or leases office space, a building owned by a local government where a specified state-funded safety net program is administered, or in a hospital that receives state funds, as specified, to be stocked with menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible to employees and the public, free of cost, at all times. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 72 Skinner D Budget Act of 2023.
Status: 1/11/2023-From printer.
Position Watch
Laws: An act making appropriations for the support of the government of the State of California and for several public purposes in accordance with the provisions of Section 12 of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of California, relating to the state budget, to take effect immediately, budget bill.
Summary:
This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions.

SB 234 Portantino D Opioid antagonists: schools, college campuses, stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks.
Status: 4/21/2023-Set for hearing May 1.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 49414.3 of, to add Section 49414.35 to, to add Article 2 (commencing with Section 76410) to Chapter 3 of Part 47 of Division 7 of Title 3 of, and to add Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 99400) to Part 65 of Division 14 of Title 3 of, the Education Code, and to add Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 11870) to Part 2 of Division 10.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to opioids.
Summary:
Existing law authorizes school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist, as defined, to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, as provided. Existing law authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose. Existing law authorizes each public and private elementary and secondary school in the state to determine whether or not to make emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist and trained personnel available at its school, as provided. This bill would require each public and elementary and secondary school in the state, including charter schools, to maintain unexpired doses of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist on its schoolsite at all times, and to ensure that at least 2 employees are aware of the location of the naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist. The bill would require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to report to the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health Care Services, on an annual basis at the end of every school year, all incidents of on campus pupil opioid exposure during that school year. The bill would make other conforming changes. By imposing new duties on public schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 252 Gonzalez D Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment.
Status: 4/20/2023-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Position Support
Laws: An act to amend Section 16642 of, and to add Section 7513.76 to, the Government Code, relating to public retirement systems.
Summary:
The California Constitution grants the retirement board of a public employee retirement system plenary authority and fiduciary responsibility for investment of moneys and administration of the retirement fund and system. These provisions qualify this grant of powers by reserving to the Legislature the authority to prohibit investments if it is in the public interest and the prohibition satisfies standards of fiduciary care and loyalty required of a retirement board. This bill would prohibit the boards of the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds in a fossil fuel company, as defined. The bill would require the boards to liquidate investments in a fossil fuel company on or before July 1, 2031. The bill would temporarily suspend the above-described liquidation provision upon a good faith determination by the board that certain conditions materially impact normal market mechanisms for pricing assets, as specified, and would make this suspension provision inoperative on January 1, 2035. The bill would provide that it does not require a board to take any action unless the board determines in good faith that the action is consistent with the board’s fiduciary responsibilities established in the California Constitution. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 444 Newman D Community colleges: Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) programs.
Status: 4/10/2023-April 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Position Co-Sponsor
Laws: An act to add Part 52.8 (commencing with Section 88680) to Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. This bill would encourage community colleges to establish and implement Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) programs directed at identifying students affected by social, economic, and educational disadvantages, increasing the number of eligible students served under MESA programs, and increasing student success in transferring and completing baccalaureate degree programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors at four-year higher education institutions, as specified. The bill would require the Board of Governors to adopt regulations for purposes of MESA programs and would require those regulations to be consistent with specified requirements and accomplish certain goals.

SB 467 Portantino D Community colleges: apprenticeship or internship training programs.
Status: 4/24/2023-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Position Sponsor
Laws: An act to amend Section 79149.25 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
Existing law authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to establish internship training programs and actively support apprenticeship and preapprenticeship training programs in collaboration with the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law authorizes a student enrolled in a community college class or classes pursuant to an apprenticeship training program or an internship training program who does not have a social security number to use an individual tax identification number for purposes of any background check required by the class or program. This bill would prohibit a student from being denied admission to a community college apprenticeship or internship training program because the student uses an individual tax identification number for purposes of the background check required by the class or program.

SB 629 Cortese D Community colleges: fee waivers.
Status: 4/17/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
Position Watch
Laws: An act to add Section 76303 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
Summary:
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 districts to charge students an enrollment fee of $46 per unit per semester. This bill would authorize the governing board of a community college district to adopt a policy that uses local unrestricted general funds to provide fee waivers to students with the greatest financial need when other fee waivers are not provided to those students if the community college district complies with certain requirements, including that 100% of its students complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or California Dream Act application, that the community college district has established a fully staffed Basic Needs Center, and that the community college district prepares a fiscal impact statement, including a 3-year projection of the fiscal impact of the fee waiver on the community college district, as specified. The bill would require, on or before October 10, 2024, and annually thereafter, a community college district to certify to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges that it has complied with all of those requirements, and would require, on or before December 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, the chancellor’s office to verify the information submitted and authorize the governing board of that community college district to adopt a policy that uses local unrestricted general funds to provide fee waivers to students with the greatest financial need. The bill would authorize the governing board of a community college district that receives authorization to use local unrestricted general funds to provide assistance to students for the total cost of attendance, as defined. This bill contains other existing laws.

Total Measures: 46

Total Tracking Forms: 46