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2013 State Legislation Update

(updated 8/7/13)

Top Ten Current State Bills of Greatest Concern to CFE

 (SB= Bill introduced first in Senate, AB= Bill first introduced in Assembly)

This information comes from our state affiliate, the California Federation of Teachers

If you are interested in getting more involved in how politics affects community college education, contact COPE Chair Rob Schneiderman at planningzone@gmail.com or COPE Secretary Ann Holliday at unionann@aol.com.

GOOD BILLS WE SUPPORT

SB 813 (Galgiani) – Creates financial incentives for community college districts to reach the 75:25 ratio of full-time to part-time full-time equivalent faculty. (This bill will come to a vote in 2014.)

AB 1199 (Fong) – Stabilizes funding for three years for community colleges who experience an enrollment drop due to “probation” or “show cause” sanctions from an accrediting agency.

SB 547 (Block) – Requires the Senates, UC, CSU, and CC systems to jointly develop online courses (not MOOCs) in high demand transferable lower division areas.

SB 241 (Evans) – Imposes and oil severance tax, proceeds to go to UC, CSU, CC, and Parks & Recreation.

SB 705 (Block) – Appropriates $50 million of the anticipated deferral buy-down to support Disabled Students and EOP/S programs.

SB 950 (Chau) – Limits full-time faculty overload to 7.5 LHE per semester.

BAD BILLS WE OPPOSE

SB 520 (Steinberg) – Contracting out of Higher Education by requiring community colleges to develop partnerships with private companies to offer MOOC (Massive Open Online Classes) to our students. UPDATE: Due to vocal opposition by CFT and other groups, this bill is postponed until next year.

SB 806 (Wilk) – Amends the 50% law that provides that at least 50% of districts’ unrestricted state dollars be spent in the classroom to include counselors and librarians. (We support including counselors and librarians as long as the % is raised proportionately.) UPDATE:  CFT helped kill this bill in Appropriations on 5/15/13.  We no longer need to worry about this one this year.

AB 955 (Williams) – Re-introduces Santa Monica City College’s two-tier tuition system to allow wealthier students to enroll in classes before poorer students, this time by limiting this method to summer and intersession.

SB 173 (Liu) – Moves Adult Education in K-12 and non-credit in community college towards performance-based funding.