California Small Business Association

Updated: October 7, 2009

BILL SUMMARIES

AB 218 – Portantino: Postsecondary education: Educational and Economic Goals for California Higher Education. This bill would repeal the existing higher education accountability program and require the state to establish a new accountability framework for achieving prescribed educational and economic goals.

AB 253 – Fuller: Career technical education: pilot program. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a pilot program in which the Superintendent of Public Instruction would invite school districts with high dropout rates to participate in a career technical education development plan.

AB 332 – Fuentes: Work-based learning. Allows school districts to provide work-based learning opportunities for pupils through existing programs such as partnership academies and regional occupational programs (ROPs).

AB 723 – Conway: Community colleges: career technical education programs of instruction. Express’s the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to develop and adopt uniform, objective, high-quality criteria and standards for evaluating programs of instruction in career technical education within the California Community Colleges.

AB 1320 – Fong: Workforce development: lifelong learning pilot program. create the Lifelong Learning Accounts Pilot Program, for the purpose of providing grants to employers and employees to be used to establish individual lifelong learning accounts, as defined, for the deposit of funds to be used by those employees and employers for purposes related to lifelong education and training.

SB 272 – Wiggins: Educational counseling. State’s legislative intent relating to the role of school counselors. The bill would require the academic counseling component of educational counseling to also include an individualized review of pupil's academic and deportment records and of his or her career goals, and the opportunity for a counselor to meet with each pupil and his or her parents or legal guardian to explain the academic progress needed to complete middle or high school, pass the high school exit examination, and be eligible for admission to a 4-year institution of postsecondary education and the availability of career technical education, among other things.

SB 410 – Ducheny: California Workforce Investment Act: federal funding. express legislative findings and declarations with respect to the need to increase funding for job training provided under the act to ensure that an adequate percentage of the federal funding available is used for training purposes.

SB 621 – Florez: Career technical education: individuals with exceptional needs. This bill would require the Superintendent to include model curriculum standards appropriate for individuals with exceptional needs.

SB 775 – Liu: Postsecondary education: accountability program. This bill would repeal the existing higher education accountability program and require the state to establish a new accountability framework to achieve prescribed educational and economic goals.

Legislative Bills