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ACCCA Legislative Update

Status as of: July 25, 2017

Bill No./ Author Title Position Current Status Page

Affordability

AB 17 Holden

Transit Pass Pilot Program: Free or Reduced-Fare Transit Passes Watch Senate Appropriations Committee 4

AB 19 Santiago Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Senate Appropriations Committee 4

AB 204 Medina Community Colleges: Waiver of Enrollment Fees Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 5

AB 343 McCarty

Public Postsecondary Education: Holders of Certain Special Immigrant Visas

Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 5

AB 453 Limón Postsecondary Education: Student Hunger Senate Education Committee—Bill Did Not

Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported 5

AB 1468 Chiu Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans Senate Appropriations Committee 6

SB 68 Lara

Public Postsecondary Education: Exemption from Nonresident Tuition

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 6

SB 573 Lara Student Financial Aid: Service Learning Programs Assembly Appropriations Committee 6

*SB 727 Galgiani

Public Postsecondary Education: Instructional Materials: Innovative Pricing

Assembly Appropriations Committee 7

SB 769 Hill Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program Support Assembly Appropriations Committee 7

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Employees

AB 168 Eggman Employers: Salary Information Senate Floor—Third Reading 7

AB 568 Gonzalez Fletcher

School and Community College Employees: Paid Maternity Leave Oppose Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 8

AB 1651 Reyes

Community Colleges: Academic Employees: Involuntary Administrative Leave and Investigations Oppose Senate Floor—Third Reading 8

ACR 32 Medina Community Colleges: Faculty Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 9

SB 550 Pan

Public School Employment: Meeting and Negotiating: Legal Actions: Settlement Offer: Attorney’s Fees

Assembly Floor—Third Reading 9

SCA 8 Moorlach Public Employee Retirement Benefits Oppose Senate Public Employment and Retirement

Committee 10

Governance and District Operations

SB 54 De León Law Enforcement: Sharing Data Assembly Appropriations Committee 10

Instruction

AB 276 Medina

Postsecondary Education: Report: Cybersecurity Education and Training Programs

Senate Rules Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported 10

*AB 705 Irwin

Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: Matriculation: Assessment Watch Senate Appropriations Committee 11

SB 577 Dodd

Public Postsecondary Education: Community College Districts: Teacher Credentialing Programs of Professional Preparation

Support Assembly Higher Education Committee— Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported

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Miscellaneous

AB 20 Kalra

Public Employee Retirement Systems: Divestment: Dakota Access Pipeline

Senate Appropriations Committee 12

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AB 1018 Reyes Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans Senate Appropriations Committee—

Suspense File 12

SB 307 Nguyen

Postsecondary Education: Task Force: Study of Student Housing Insecurity and Homelessness

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 12

Student Services

*AB 21 Kalra

Public Postsecondary Education: Access to Higher Education for Every Student

Senate Appropriations Committee 13

AB 504 Medina

Community Colleges: Student Success and Support Program Funding

Senate Desk 14

AB 637 Medina Community Colleges: Cross-Enrollment in Online Education Assembly Desk 14

AB 1567 Holden

Public Postsecondary Education: California State University: California Community Colleges: Foster Youth: Higher Education Outreach and Assistance Act for Foster Youth

Senate Appropriations Committee 14

*SB 478 Portantino

Public Postsecondary Education: Transfer of Community College Students to The California State University or University of California

Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File 15

SB 539 De León The Community College Student Achievement Program

Assembly Higher Education Committee— Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported

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Veterans

SB 25 Portantino Public Postsecondary Education: Nonresident Tuition

Exemption

Assembly Higher Education Committee— Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported

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SB 694 Newman California Community Colleges: Veteran Resource Centers

Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee— Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Report

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Affordability AB 17 (Holden) Amended: 5/30/2017 Title: Transit Pass Pilot Program: Free or Reduced-Fare Transit Passes Status: Senate Appropriations Committee Position: Watch Summary: As amended on May 30, 2017, this bill would appropriate $20 million to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to implement a pilot program to provide free or reduced-fare transit passes to low-income students, including community college students who qualify for a waiver of student fees. The bill would require Caltrans to develop performance measures and reporting requirements to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. The bill would require Caltrans to develop guidelines that describe the application process and selection criteria for awarding the monies made available for the program, and would exempt the development of those guidelines from the Administrative Procedure Act. On Tuesday, AB 17 passed the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee on a 12-1 vote and will head to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill faces no registered opposition and is being sponsored by Move LA, the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, and Transform with registered support from numerous health, transit, and community college organizations.

AB 19 (Santiago) Amended: 7/3/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Enrollment Fee Waiver Status: Senate Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: As amended on July 3, 2017, this bill would waive, for one academic year, the $46 per unit California Community College (CCC) student fee for any CCC student who meets the following requirements: • Is a first-time student • Is enrolled full time (12 units or more) • Completes and submits either a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or a California Dream Act

application • Is enrolled at a CCC district that partners with one or more school districts and one or more California

State University or University of California campuses to establish or expand a program that adheres to certain practices and principles relative to student preparation for college and/or transfer to a public postsecondary university

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AB 204 (Medina) Amended: 6/28/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Waiver of Enrollment Fees Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: As amended on June 28, 2017, this bill would express the intent of the Legislature that the minimum academic and progress standards be implemented only as campuses develop and implement the student support services and interventions necessary to additionally ensure no disproportionate impact to students based on geographic location. The bill would require the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to review, for general consistency, each community college district’s due process procedures, including any subsequent modifications of the procedures, adopted to appeal the loss of a fee waiver under these provisions, and comment on the procedures, as appropriate. The bill would require each community college district to, at least once every three years, examine the impact of the specified minimum academic and progress standards and determine whether those standards have had a disproportionate impact on a specific class of students, and if a disproportionate effect is found, the bill would require the community college district to include steps to address that impact in a student equity plan.

AB 343 (McCarty) Amended: 7/11/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Holders of Certain Special Immigrant Visas Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: As amended, on July 11, 2017, this bill would entitle special immigrant visa holders and certain refugees to resident classification for the purpose of California Community Colleges fees for the length of time he or she lives in this state, up to the minimum time necessary to become a resident. The bill authorizes a community college district to report a student, who is exempt from nonresident tuition and who is enrolled as a student in that district, as a full-time equivalent student for apportionment purposes.

AB 453 (Limón) Amended: 5/26/2017 Title: Postsecondary Education: Student Hunger Status: Senate Education Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported Position: Summary: For a district that chooses to participate, the local Board of Governors shall designate as a “hunger-free campus” each of its respective campuses that have a campus employee designated to help students enroll in CalFresh and a campus food pantry. As amended on May 26, 2017, this bill is contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature and would, commencing with the 2018-19 academic year, provide that each campus that receives the designation shall receive a funding incentive. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2022.

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AB 1468 (Chiu) Amended: 7/12/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans Status: Senate Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: As amended on July 12, 2017, this bill would authorize the use of funding from the Student Equity Program, up to $25,000 of apportionment funds per campus, or both, for the provision of emergency student financial assistance to eligible students. “Eligible student” is defined as a student who has experienced an unforeseen financial challenge, who currently meets the definition of satisfactory academic progress of the college he or she attends, who has submitted a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or a California Dream Act application to the college he or she attends, and who is at risk of not persisting in his or her course of study due to the unforeseen financial challenge.

SB 68 (Lara) Amended: 5/26/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Exemption from Nonresident Tuition Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on May 26, 2017, would amend the statutes that exempt a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, from nonresident tuition at the California State University (CSU) and the California Community Colleges (CCC) if the student has a total of three or more years of attendance (or attainment of equivalent credits earned while in California) at California elementary or secondary schools, campuses of the CCCs, California adult schools, or a combination of those schools, and the student graduates from a California high school or attains the equivalent, attains an associate degree from a campus of the CCCs, or fulfills minimum transfer requirements established for the University of California or the CSU for students transferring from campuses of the CCCs.

SB 573 (Lara) Amended: 7/3/2017 Title: Student Financial Aid: Service Learning Programs Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: As amended on July 3, 2017, this bill would authorize the Board of Governors to develop and ensure that each of their respective campuses implement a service learning program for students with financial need who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under Assembly Bill 540. The bill would establish that personal information of a student collected or obtained for the service learning program is not a public record for purposes of the California Public Records Act and shall only be collected, used, and retained to administer the program, and would prohibit disclosure of that personal information to any other person, except as provided.

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*SB 727 (Galgiani) Amended: 7/13/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Instructional Materials: Innovative Pricing Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: This bill would add to the Donahoe Higher Education Act, a provision authorizing public postsecondary educational institutions to adopt policies that allow for the use of innovative pricing techniques and payment options for textbooks and other instructional materials, as specified. The bill would require that innovative pricing techniques and payment options adopted pursuant to the bill include an opt-out provision for students, and further would require that they be adopted only if there is documented evidence that the proposed options, if they are adopted, would actually reduce the cost of the textbooks or other instructional materials for students taking a course. The July 13, 2017, amendments authorize public postsecondary educational institutions to consult with students, faculty, financial aid officers, counselors, campus bookstores, or other appropriate campus interests with respect to these policies.

SB 769 (Hill) Amended: 7/13/2017 Title: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee Position: Support Summary: As amended on July 13, 2017, this bill would extend the operation of the statewide baccalaureate degree pilot program until July 1, 2028 and would extend the time by which a student participating in a baccalaureate degree pilot program is required to complete his or her degree to the end of the 2027-28 academic year.

Employees AB 168 (Eggman) Amended: 6/6/2017 Title: Employers: Salary Information Status: Senate Floor—Third Reading Position: Summary: As amended on June 6, 2017, this bill prohibits an employer, orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, from seeking salary history information, including compensation and benefits, about an applicant for employment; and, requires an employer, upon reasonable request, to provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment. The amendment specifies that these provisions do not apply to salary history information that is disclosable to the public pursuant to specified federal and state law.

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AB 568 (Gonzalez Fletcher) Amended: 5/17/2017 Title: School and Community College Employees: Paid Maternity Leave Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Oppose Summary: This bill would require the governing board of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, and the governing board of a community college district to provide at least six weeks of a leave of absence with full pay for a certificated employee, or an academic employee, of the district or charter school who is required to be absent from duties because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery therefrom. The bill would authorize the paid leave to begin before and continue after childbirth, provided that the employee is actually disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related condition. This leave would not diminish the employee’s right to other leaves of absence such as disability leave, sick leave, bonding leave, vacation leave, and pregnancy leave under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. On Monday, AB 568 was referred to the Senate Appropriations Suspense File where it will undergo further financial scrutiny before being passed to the Senate Floor or being held in the committee as a two-year bill. The bill is being cosponsored by CFT and the Service Employees International Union. The registered list of supporters include labor associations such as CTA, while the list of opposition includes administration and business associations such as ACCCA and the California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO). ACCCA and CASBO have signed on to a joint opposition letter with other statewide administration and business associations.

AB 1651 (Reyes) Amended: 6/27/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Academic Employees: Involuntary Administrative Leave and Investigations Status: Senate Floor—Third Reading Position: Oppose Summary: This bill, as amended on June 27, 2017, would require that a community college academic employee, at least two days before being placed on involuntary paid administrative leave, be provided a copy of each written complaint related to the proposed involuntary administrative leave or, if there is no written complaint, a notification in writing of the details of the allegation or allegations of misconduct upon which the decision to place the employee on involuntary administrative leave is based. The bill stipulates that the pre-notification requirements do not apply in the event of serious risk of physical danger or other documented necessity arising from the specific allegations, and the employee may immediately be placed on involuntary paid administrative leave, whereby the employee shall instead be provided the general nature of the accusations made within five business days after being placed on involuntary administrative leave. The bill requires that a community college academic employee, at least five business days before being subject to an investigatory interview or other interrogation related to an allegation of misconduct, be provided with at least the general nature of the accusations made against him or her. In the event of no serious risk of physical danger or other documented necessity, a copy of each written complaint being investigated or, if there is no written complaint, notification in writing of the details of the allegation or allegations upon which the decision to conduct an investigatory interview or other interrogation is based, shall also be provided. The bill stipulates that an employer may withhold providing a complaint to an employee if the employer demonstrates in its records the ways in which revealing the complaint would result in one of the following:

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a) Danger of relevant evidence being destroyed or relevant testimony being fabricated. b) Reasonable danger of violence or retaliation. c) Confidentiality has been requested by law enforcement due to a relevant investigation. d) Violation of law. The bill stipulates that parties to a collective bargaining agreement shall be entitled to negotiate additional policies and procedures relating to investigations or involuntary paid administrative leave of an academic employee if as much notice as required in the bill is provided. The bill stipulates that the identity of complainants shall be disclosed unless otherwise prohibited by state or federal law. ACR 32 (Medina) Title: Community Colleges: Faculty Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This measure would encourage the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified affected stakeholders, including faculty and students, to develop proposals for legislative consideration to address the longstanding challenges to achieving the goal of 75% of credit classroom instruction taught by full-time faculty and compensation equity for part-time faculty.

SB 550 (Pan) Amended: 6/27/2017 Title: Public School Employment: Meeting and Negotiating: Legal Actions: Settlement Offer: Attorney’s Fees

Status: Assembly Floor—Third Reading Position: Summary: As amended on June 27, 2017, this bill would require an employer, if an employee organization makes an offer to settle a dispute alleging an employer’s failure to provide wages, benefits, or working conditions required by state law, and the employer does not accept the offer and fails to obtain a “more favorable judgment or award” (not defined in the section), to pay the employee organization’s attorney’s fees and expenses incurred after the offer was made except when the adjudicator to the action or proceeding finds that the employer has raised substantial and credible issues involving complex or significant questions of law or fact relative to the employee’s claim or claims.

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SCA 8 (Moorlach) Title: Public Employee Retirement Benefits Status: Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee Position: Oppose Summary: This measure would permit a government employer to reduce retirement benefits that are based on work not yet performed by an employee regardless of the date that the employee was first hired, notwithstanding other provisions of the California Constitution or any other law. The measure would prohibit it from being interpreted to permit the reduction of retirement benefits that a public employee has earned based on work that has been performed, as specified.

Governance and District Operations SB 54 (De León) Amended: 7/10/2017 Title: Law Enforcement: Sharing Data Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: Existing law provides that when there is reason to believe that a person arrested for a violation of controlled substance provisions may not be a citizen of the United States, the arresting agency shall notify the appropriate agency of the United States having charge of deportation matters. This bill would repeal those provisions. This bill would also prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies, including school police, from using resources to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes. The bill would also require the Attorney General, by April 1, 2018, to publish model policies limiting immigration enforcement to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law at public schools to ensure that they remain safe and accessible to all California residents regardless of immigration status. All public schools would be required to implement the model policy or an equivalent policy.

Instruction AB 276 (Medina) Amended: 4/17/2017 Title: Postsecondary Education: Report: Cybersecurity Education and Training Programs Status: Senate Rules Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported Position: Summary: This bill would request the governing board of each community college district, no later than January 1, 2019, to complete a report that evaluates the current state of cyber security education and training programs, including specified information about those programs to determine the best method of educating and training college students to meet the current demand for jobs requiring cyber security knowledge and experience.

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*AB 705 (Irwin) Amended: 7/19/2017 Title: Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: Matriculation: Assessment Status: Senate Appropriations Committee Position: Watch Summary: As amended on July 19, 2017, this bill requires community college districts (CCD), to maximize the probability that a student will enter and complete coursework in math and English within a one-year time frame by utilizing multiple measures to achieve this goal. The bill would authorize the Board of Governors to establish regulations governing the use of measures, instruments, and placement models to ensure that these measures, instruments, and placement models achieve the goal of maximizing the probability that a student will enter and complete transfer-level coursework in English and mathematics within a one-year time frame and that a student enrolled in English as a second language (ESL) instruction will enter and complete degree and transfer requirements in English within a time frame of three years. The bill would also authorize the Board of Governors to establish regulations that ensure that, for students who seek a goal other than transfer, and who are in certificate or degree programs with specific requirements that are not met with transfer-level coursework, a community college maximizes the probability that a student will enter and complete the required college-level coursework in English and mathematics within a one-year time frame. The bill would prohibit a CCD or college from requiring students to enroll in remedial coursework that lengthens their time to complete a degree unless placement research that includes consideration of high school grade point average and coursework shows that those students are highly unlikely to succeed in transfer-level coursework. The bill would authorize a CCD or college to require students to enroll in additional concurrent support during the same semester that they take the transfer-level English or mathematics course, but only if it is determined that the support will increase their likelihood of passing the transfer-level English or mathematics course.

SB 577 (Dodd) Amended: 5/26/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Community College Districts: Teacher Credentialing Programs of Professional Preparation

Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported Position: Support Summary: As amended on May 26, 2017, this bill would authorize the California Community Colleges Board of Governors (BOG), in consultation with the California State University (CSU) and the University of California, to authorize up to five community college districts to offer a teacher credentialing program. The program would be accredited by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing’s Committee on Accreditation. The community college district would be required to identify and document unmet teaching workforce needs in the local community or region of the district and design the district’s teacher credentialing program of professional preparation to train qualified teachers to meet those needs. If the BOG authorizes such a program, it would be required to develop, and adopt by regulation, a funding model for the support of teacher credentialing programs of professional preparation that is based on a calculation of the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in all district teacher credentialing programs of professional preparation and would not exceed those charged at a comparable program of the CSU. Despite SB 577 receiving broad bipartisan support the author decided to pull the bill from the July 11, 2017 Assembly Higher Education Committee agenda. Since the bill is keyed fiscal and will not pass out of policy committee by the July 14, 2017 deadline it will become a two-year bill and can’t be taken up again until 2018.

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Miscellaneous AB 20 (Kalra) Amended: 7/12/2017 Title: Public Employee Retirement Systems: Divestment: Dakota Access Pipeline Status: Senate Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: As amended on July 12, 2017, this bill would require the boards of administration of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System to make a specified report, on or before April 1, 2018, to the Legislature and the Governor regarding investments in the Dakota Access Pipeline, would state the intent of the Legislature that the boards review and consider factors related to tribal sovereignty and indigenous tribal rights as part of the board’s investment policies related to environmental, social, and governance issues.

AB 1018 (Reyes) Amended: 6/12/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Student Equity Plans Status: Senate Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: As amended June 12, 2017, in addition to adding homeless students, this bill would also add lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students to the categories of students required to be addressed in the student equity plans.

SB 307 (Nguyen) Amended: 5/3/2017 Title: Postsecondary Education: Task Force: Study of Student Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: This bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office, in consultation with the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, to conduct a study to determine the extent, causes, and effects of housing insecurity and homelessness of current and prospective postsecondary students. The task force would consist of three representatives from each segment and require that one of the representatives selected by each segment be a currently enrolled student. The bill would require the study to be submitted to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2018.

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Student Services *AB 21 (Kalra) Amended: 7/18/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Access to Higher Education for Every Student Status: Senate Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on July 18, 2017, establishes various policies and actions to be implemented by institutions of higher education in California that safeguard against immigration enforcement activities on campuses. Specifically, the bill would require community colleges to: • Refrain from disclosing personal information about students, faculty, and staff except: (1) as required

by law; (2) with the consent of the person identified; (3) for the programmatic purpose for which the information was obtained; (4) as part of a directory that does not include residence addresses or individual students’ course schedules and that the person has not elected to opt out of; or (5) in response to a judicial warrant or subpoena.

• Advise all students, and require each member of the faculty and staff, to immediately notify the campus

chancellor or president if they are advised that public or law enforcement entities are expected to enter, or have entered, the campus to execute a federal immigration order

• Advise all students, and require all faculty and staff responding to or having contact with a

representative of a public or law enforcement entity executing a federal immigration order, to promptly refer the entity or individual to the campus chancellor or president for purposes of verifying the legality of any warrant or subpoena

• Assign staff to serve as a point of contact for those who may be subject to immigration actions • Adopt and implement a policy limiting assistance with immigration enforcement to the fullest extent

possible consistent with federal and state law • Maintain a contact list of legal services providers who provide pro bono legal immigration

representation, and provide it free of charge to any and all students who request it The July 18, 2017, amendment also added: • Comply with a request for student, faculty, or staff records from an agent or employee of the federal

Immigration and Customs Enforcement or customs and border protection agencies only upon presentation of a valid subpoena. This provision shall not be construed to restrict or interfere with compliance and interaction with federal immigration officers in relation to the operation of international student or faculty programs.

• Comply with a request for access to the campus from an agent or employee of the federal Immigration

and Customs Enforcement or customs and border protection agencies only upon presentation of a judicial warrant. This provision shall not be construed to restrict or interfere with compliance and interaction with federal immigration officers in relation to the operation of international student or faculty programs.

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AB 504 (Medina) Amended: 6/5/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Student Success and Support Program Funding Status: Senate Desk Position: Summary: Existing law requires the student equity plan to include, for each community college in the community college district, campus-based research as to the extent of student equity by gender and for each of several specified categories of students. Existing law also requires the student equity plan to include whether significant underrepresentation of any of these categories of students is found to exist in terms of access to, and completion of, basic skills, career technical education and workforce training, and transfer courses. As amended on June 5, 2017, this bill would require the student equity plan to instead include whether that significant underrepresentation of any of these categories of students is found to exist in terms of access and retention, degree and certificate completion, English as a Second Language and basic skills completion, and transfer. The bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish a standard methodology, for measurement of student equity and disproportionate impact for disaggregated subgroups of the student population of the California Community Colleges, for use in the student equity plans of community college districts.

AB 637 (Medina) Amended: 6/12/2017 Title: Community Colleges: Cross-Enrollment in Online Education Status: Assembly Desk Position: Summary: As amended June 12, 2017, this bill has significantly changed from originally providing standard definitions in student equity plans to a bill that establishes cross-enrollment in online education. This bill would require the Chancellor’s Office to provide an online methodology to allow eligible students to be informed of opportunities to access online courses, to enroll in those online courses, and to provide consent to electronically transfer all relevant enrollment data to the teaching college. The bill would also authorize a community college district whose students are participating in this program to accept the determination of a student’s residency classification under certain conditions.

AB 1567 (Holden) Amended: 7/5/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: California State University: California Community Colleges: Foster Youth: Higher Education Outreach and Assistance Act for Foster Youth

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee Position: Summary: This bill, as amended on July 5, 2017, would require the California Department of Social Services and county welfare departments, in coordination with the California Community Colleges, to share relevant data, upon acceptance and enrollment of the foster youth at the California Community Colleges, to ensure that the foster youth is offered access and enrollment in programs offered by his or her campus, including, but not necessarily limited to, the California Community Colleges Extended Opportunity Programs and Services.

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The bill would require the California Community Colleges, upon determination, through receipt of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or through another means, that a student enrolled at, or applying to, that campus is a current or former foster youth and is eligible for financial aid, to notify that student about appropriate campus support programs, notify that student of his or her eligibility for financial aid, and provide that student with instructions for accessing the benefits for which he or she has qualified. The bill would specify that notification of students pursuant to this provision may be accomplished by methods including, but not necessarily limited to, inclusion of information in the letters of acceptance sent to foster youth who have been admitted to those campuses. *SB 478 (Portantino) Amended: 7/13/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Transfer of Community College Students to The California State University or University of California

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee—Suspense File Position: Summary: As amended July 13, 2017, this bill would require each community college district to (1) identify those students who have completed an associate degree for transfer, (2) notify those students of their completion of the degree requirements, (3) automatically award the student with the degree, and (4) add the student to an identification system maintained at the end of each academic year that the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall maintain and that can be accessed electronically by the California State University and the University of California enrollment systems. The bill would also require that steps (1) to (3) be completed at the end of each academic term. The bill would authorize a student to affirmatively exercise an option to not receive an associate degree for transfer or to be included in the identification system.

SB 539 (De León) Amended: 4/26/2017 Title: The Community College Student Achievement Program Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported Position: Summary: This bill would create the Community College Completion Grant Program, which would require participating districts to develop guided pathways, defined as comprehensive sets of community college programs and services focused on improving student success. Students would be awarded grants to help offset his or her total cost of community college attendance, only in years in which funding has been provided for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute and if the student has maintained a 2.0 GPA, enrolls in 15 or more credit units per semester, enrolls in a sufficient number of courses, as determined by the community college, to be considered on track, and enrolls in summer coursework. The bill would require the Chancellor to report to the Legislature, on or before April 1, 2019, regarding grant award recipients for the 2018-19 award year.

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Veterans SB 25 (Portantino) Amended: 3/30/2017 Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Nonresident Tuition Exemption Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported Position: Summary: As significantly amended, this bill now aligns with federal law the definition of who shall be exempt from paying nonresident tuition because of their eligibility for education benefits under two federal GI Bills.

SB 694 (Newman) Amended: 5/2/2017 Title: California Community Colleges: Veteran Resource Centers Status: Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee—Bill Did Not Meet Deadline—No Longer Being Reported Position: Summary: This bill would require the Chancellor’s Office to ensure that each of its campuses provides a dedicated on-campus Veteran Resource Center that offers services to help student veterans transition successfully from military life to educational success through the core components of academics, wellness, and camaraderie and would require those Veteran Resource Centers, at a minimum, to be open for 25 hours a week, be staffed by veterans whenever possible, be 400 square feet and fully accessible, and provide enrolled student veterans with specified services. As amended, a community college may submit justification to the Chancellor’s Office of why it cannot comply with the bill’s requirements and shall demonstrate how it will serve its veteran students without complying with these new requirements.