AB 132

Bill Subjects

Abstract

(1) Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, which is maintained by the State Department of Education and consists of pupil data regarding demographic, program participation, enrollment, and statewide assessments. Existing law establishes the California Cradle-to-Career Data System Workgroup to assess, recommend, and advise about statewide data infrastructure that integrates data from state entities responsible for elementary and secondary education data, entities responsible for early learning data, segments of public higher education, private colleges and universities, state entities responsible for student financial aid, childcare providers, state labor and workforce development agencies, and state departments administering health and human services programs. Existing law requires the Office of Planning and Research to contract with entities with expertise in managing data for specified purposes relating to the workgroup's activities. Existing law requires those contracted entities to submit reports to the Department of Finance and the Legislature concerning the establishment of the California Cradle-to-Career Data System, as specified. This bill would establish the Cradle-to-Career Data System for the purpose of connecting individuals and organizations to trusted information and resources, as a source for actionable data and research on education, economic, and health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities, and to provide for expanded access to tools and services that support the education-to-employment pipeline, as specified. The bill would establish the California Cradle-to-Career Data System Governing Board in state government, composed of certain representatives from state agencies, educational organizations, and members of the public, who would, among other things, be responsible for strategic direction and implementation of the data system, including ensuring that the data system is serving its intended purposes. The bill would establish the Data and Tools Advisory Board and the Community Engagement Advisory Board to perform certain tasks and make recommendations to the governing board, as specified. The bill would require the governing board to also provide operational oversight of the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data that the bill would establish within the Government Operations Agency under the direction of the Department of General Services to serve as the managing entity of the data system, as provided. The bill would authorize information to be provided to the data system by local educational agencies with respect to operational tools, as defined, the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects for the California Health and Human Services Agency, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the State Department of Education, and the California College Guidance Initiative with respect to longitudinal pupil achievement data, the Student Aid Commission with respect to grade point average and other data, the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, and the Employment Development Department. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to transfer $2,452,000 from a designated item of the Budget Act of 2021 to the State Department of Education, the California Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, the Student Aid Commission, and the Employment Development Department, as scheduled, therefore making an appropriation. The bill would also include numerous conforming changes. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (2) Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, local educational agencies throughout the state provide instruction and other services to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Pupils who seek to continue their education in postsecondary educational institutions, and who wish to apply for financial aid, are generally required to apply for this aid through certain standardized forms, which, for most pupils, include the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and, for certain pupils, include the California Dream Act application. This bill would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school to ensure that a grade 12 pupil who has not opted out, as specified, completes and submits a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or, if the pupil is exempt from paying nonresident tuition under existing law, completes and submits a form for purposes of the California Dream Act. The bill would require the Student Aid Commission, on or before July 1, 2022, to adopt regulations that include model opt-out forms and acceptable use policies for the purpose of providing guidance with applicable state laws. The bill would require the school district, county office of education, or charter school to exempt a pupil or the pupil's parent or legal guardian from completing a form if the local educational agency determines the pupil is unable to complete the form, and would prohibit a pupil's ability to graduate from being affected by a pupil's failure to fill out a form. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as a segment of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law authorizes a state court, in any action in which that court finds that any of certain student financial aid or other specified programs, or any similar program adopted by the regents, is unlawful, to order the administering entity that is the subject of the lawsuit to terminate any waiver awarded under that statute or action as equitable relief. This provision also prohibits the award of money damages, a tuition refund or waiver, or other retroactive relief, and provides that the segments of public postsecondary education, including the University of California, are immune from the imposition of any award of money damages, tuition refund or waiver, or other retroactive relief in a lawsuit. Existing law, until June 30, 2021, authorizes the University of California to provide a scholarship as established by the university or a campus of the university, derived from nonstate funds received for that purpose, to any of its enrolled students who meet the eligibility requirements for that scholarship. Existing law, until June 30, 2021, includes this scholarship authorization as a program covered by the above-described law relating to relief available in state court actions. This bill would extend those end dates by 2 years, thereby making those scholarship provisions operative until June 30, 2023. (4) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to provide instruction to students at community college campuses. This bill would require each campus of the California Community Colleges, no later than July 1, 2022, to establish the position of Basic Needs Coordinator and designate a staff person as the Basic Needs Coordinator. The bill would require a basic needs coordinator to act as a broker in identifying, supporting, and linking students to on- and off-campus housing, food, mental health, and other basic needs services and resources, among other responsibilities. The bill would also require each campus, no later than July 1, 2022, to establish a Basic Needs Center, which would be a central location on campus where basic needs services, resources, and staff would be made available to students, as specified. The bill would require each Basic Needs Center, among other duties, to help students to have the information needed to enroll in CalFresh and other relevant government benefit programs. This bill would further require each campus, no later than February 1, 2022, to develop a document to be made available to students online that clearly lists all on- and off-campus basic needs services and resources, as specified. The bill would require each campus to provide the document to students as a part of campus orientations in either electronic format or paper form, and to provide to faculty, and encourage the faculty to include in their syllabi, the online link to the electronic format of the document, the location of the Basic Needs Center once established, and the contact information for the coordinator once designated. The bill would also require each campus, no later than February 1, 2022, to streamline the application and intake process for on-campus basic needs services and resources, to develop and implement a plan to identify and provide outreach to students who have basic needs insecurity, and to develop a student basic needs tab that is clearly visible and easily accessible from a drop-down menu on the home page of the internet website of the campus, as specified. This bill would require each community college campus to report specified information to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and would require the office to develop and submit to the Governor and the Legislature every year beginning on or before May 1, 2023, a report based on the data and information reported by campuses under the bill and information on the use of funds made available to implement the requirements of the bill. Because the paragraph would impose new duties on community college districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (5) 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 requires the trustees, and requests the regents, to establish a dual admissions program for eligible freshman applicants, authorizing a guarantee of admission to a campus of the California State University or University of California contingent on successful completion of lower-division transfer requirements at a campus of the California Community Colleges, as specified. Existing law provides that the agreement shall include specified incentives, and that student participation in the dual admissions program is voluntary. This bill instead, commencing with the 2023–24 academic year, until the 2026–27 academic year, would require the trustees and the regents to offer for first-time freshman applicants meeting certain criteria a dual admissions program, and would authorize eligible first-time freshman applicants to enter into a dual admissions agreement with the California State University or University of California that guarantees the student's admission to a specific campus of the segment selected by the student at the time of the agreement if the student completes transfer requirements, which may include completion of an associate degree for transfer, within 2 academic years at a California Community College. These requirements would apply to the University of California only if the regents adopt a resolution to make them applicable. (6) The Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program provides grant funding for California postsecondary students. Existing law specifies the amounts of the maximum Cal Grant A and B awards for students attending independent institutions of higher education. Existing law authorizes community colleges to award an associate degree for transfer, and provides that the amount of Cal Grant A and B tuition awards for future years for students at independent institutions of higher education depends on the number of commitments those institutions make to accept associate degrees for transfer. Specifically, beginning with the 2021–22 award year, the maximum tuition award is either $9,084 or $8,056, depending upon whether the number of new unduplicated transfer students accepted by those institutions who have been given associate degree for transfer commitments in the prior award year exceeds statutory targets. This bill would fix the 2021–22 award year amount for a new recipient at an independent institution of higher education at $9,220. The bill would, for the 2022–23 award year and beyond, set the maximum tuition award amount as either $9,220 or $8,056, conditioned on the achievement of the target numbers for associate degree for transfer commitments that apply in existing law for the prior award year, thereby delaying for one year the applicable targets. (7) Under existing law, the Student Aid Commission administers the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, among other duties. The Cal Grant Program comprises the Cal Grant A and B 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. Existing law establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions, as defined. Under the program, a Cal Grant student's financial need is determined to establish a student's initial eligibility for a Cal Grant award and a renewing recipient's continued eligibility using the federal financial need methodology established under Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965. This bill would require that, for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 award years, a student with an initial or renewal Cal Grant A award impacted by a change in the student's living status due to the COVID-19 pandemic have the student's eligibility for an initial or renewal Cal Grant A award calculated based on what it would have been had the change in the student's living status due to the COVID-19 pandemic not occurred. This bill would establish a California Community College Expanded Entitlement Award for students who were not awarded a Cal Grant A or B award at the time of the student's high school graduation but who will be enrolled at a California community college during the award year and who meet all of the criteria, as specified. Under existing law, no more than a total of 41,000 Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards may be granted annually. Existing law additionally requires 50% of the awards be available to all students, including California community college students, and 50% of the awards be reserved for students who will be enrolled at a California community college. This bill would reduce the total number of Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards that may be granted annually to 13,000 and would make all of the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards available to students who will be enrolled at an institution other than a California community college. Existing law, commencing with the 2019–20 academic year, provides an additional award, as specified, to Cal Grant A and B Entitlement, Competitive Cal Grant A and B, and Cal Grant C recipients who are attending a public postsecondary educational institution and have dependent children, as defined. Under existing law, the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act, and any other appropriation for these purposes, shall not exceed $125,000,000. This bill would increase the amount that can be appropriated for these purposes to $250,000,000. Commencing with the 2021–22 academic year, this bill would provide an additional award, as specified, to Cal Grant A and B Entitlement, Competitive Cal Grant A and B, and Cal Grant C recipients who are foster youth or former foster youth, as defined, attending a public postsecondary educational institution. (8) Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to provide a grant to each student enrolled in an approved teacher credentialing program within an accredited California institution of higher education who commits to working in a high-need field, as defined, at a priority school for 4 years after the student receives a preliminary teaching credential. Existing law makes funds appropriated for the program in the Budget Act of 2020 available for encumbrance or expenditures by the commission until June 30, 2023. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to publish a list of priority schools by January 1 of each year for which money has been appropriated to support grants under the program. Existing law defines a priority school as a school with a high percentage of teachers holding emergency-type permits over the last 3 years. This bill instead would require the Student Aid Commission, in coordination with the State Department of Education, to publish the list of priority schools and would make funds appropriated for the program in the Budget Acts of 2020 and 2021 available for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2024. The bill would redefine a priority school under the program to mean a school with at least 55% of its pupils being unduplicated pupils, as defined. The bill would delete the requirement for the professional preparation program to be within an accredited California institution of higher education and would add transitional kindergarten to the definition of a high-need field. (9) Existing law establishes the California State Work-Study Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to provide University of California, California State University, and California Community College students meeting certain criteria with the opportunity to earn money to help defray their educational costs, while gaining experience in educationally beneficial or career-related employment. Existing law includes out-of-state employers licensed to conduct business in their home state, subject to prior approval of the commission, among the eligible entities to employ participating students under the program. This bill would revise and recast various provisions of the California State Work-Study Program. Among these changes, the bill would: (A) rename the program as the Learning-Aligned Employment Program, (B) have the commission administer the Learning-Aligned Employment Program in consultation with the office of the President of the University of California, the office of the Chancellor of the California State University, and the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, (C) remove those out-of-state employers from the eligible entities that may employ participating students under the program, (D) limit eligibility to participate in the program to eligible students from underrepresented backgrounds, (E) require participating campuses to prioritize for available learning-aligned employment positions under the program eligible students who are first generation college students, current or former foster youth, homeless, or at risk of being homeless, and (F) require participating campuses to further prioritize these eligible students who are also majoring in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics discipline. (10) Existing law establishes the Golden State Scholarshare College Savings Trust under the administration of the Scholarshare Investment Board. Existing law establishes the California Kids Investment and Development Savings (KIDS) Program, under the administration of the board, for the purposes of expanding access to higher education through savings. Existing law establishes the California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program Fund in the State Treasury to serve as the initial repository of all moneys received from state and private sources for the KIDS Program, and continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the board for the KIDS Program. Subject to available moneys in the fund, existing law requires the board to establish one or more Scholarshare 529 accounts and make a seed deposit of moneys from the fund into a Scholarshare 529 account established under the KIDS Program in an amount of at least $25, as determined by the board. Specifically, those moneys are deposited in subaccounts, called KIDS Accounts, one designated for each California resident child born on or after July 1, 2020, who is a California resident at the time of birth, except for children whose parents or legal guardians have opted out, as specified. Existing law requires the board to provide awards from these KIDS Accounts, as specified, for each recipient child's qualified higher education expenses at an eligible institution of higher education. Existing law authorizes the board to periodically inform a child's parent or legal guardian of the balance of their KIDS Account, including earnings designated for the child. This bill would make programmatic changes to the KIDS Program, including authorizing the board to establish child savings plans other than Scholarshare 529 accounts for participating children. The bill would instead require moneys to be deposited in KIDS Accounts, one designated for each California resident child born on or after a date to be determined by the board that is no later than July 1, 2022. The bill would instead require the board to establish rules and regulations for notifying a KIDS Account recipient child and the child's parents or legal guardians of the moneys deposited and accrued in the child's KIDS Account, and rules and regulations regarding the establishment and operation of program components, as specified. The bill would establish KIDS Accounts for all unduplicated pupils in the 2021–22 fiscal year, and for unduplicated pupils who are entering first grade commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, if one has not already been established for them under the KIDS Program. The bill would allocate $500 into each new and existing KIDS Account of an unduplicated pupil, an additional $500 into the KIDS Accounts of those unduplicated pupils who are also foster youth, and an additional $500 into the KIDS Accounts of those unduplicated pupils who are also homeless pupils. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (11) Under existing law, the Middle Class Scholarship Program, an undergraduate student enrolled at the University of California or the California State University, or enrolled in upper division coursework in a community college baccalaureate program, and meeting certain requirements, is eligible for a scholarship award that, combined with other federal, state, and institutionally administered grants and fee waivers, totals up to 40% of the systemwide tuition and fees. Existing law, upon order of the Director of Finance, transfers $117,000,000 from the General Fund to the Middle Class Scholarship Fund for the 2019–20 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, and appropriates that sum to the Student Aid Commission for purposes of the scholarship program. This bill would revise provisions of the Middle Class Scholarship Program. Among the changes, the bill would provide, commencing with the 2022–23 academic year, an eligible student with a scholarship award in an amount that equals the difference between the student's cost of attendance, as determined by the commission, and the sum of contributions from sources, including federal, state, and institutionally administered student scholarships, grants, or fee waivers, to fund the student's cost of attendance. The bill would decrease the appropriations of $117,000,000 for the 2019–20 fiscal year to $116,557,000 and for the 2020–21 fiscal year to $116,956,000, and would set the appropriation for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter at $117,000,000. (12) Existing law authorizes community college districts to charge students a fee of $46 per unit per semester, and also authorizes the waiver of this fee for students who meet specified criteria. This bill would authorize a community college district to use available emergency relief funds provided by the federal government to waive this fee, if it is unpaid by a student due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as specified. (13) The Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to distribute grants to community college districts that meet specified criteria for developing and implementing associate degrees and career technical education certificate programs earned entirely by completing courses that eliminate conventional textbook costs by using alternative instructional materials and methodologies. Existing law requires a community college district, as a condition of receiving funding appropriated in the annual Budget Act, to develop and implement zero-textbook-cost degrees, among other things, to strive to implement zero-textbook-cost degrees by the first term of the 2018–19 academic year, or sooner, as determined by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the chancellor to report, by June 30, 2019, to the Legislature, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and the Department of Finance specified information on the development and implementation of zero-textbook-cost degrees pursuant to the program, including the estimated annual savings to students. Existing law authorizes funds not awarded in the 2016–17 fiscal year in the annual Budget Act for the program to be awarded in the 2017–18 fiscal year. Existing law requires the chancellor's office to award an initial round of grants no later than January 1, 2017. This bill, among other things, would require a community college district, as a condition of receiving funding, to strive to implement zero-textbook-cost degrees within 3 academic years of receiving funding. Of the funding appropriated in the annual Budget Act, the bill would authorize the chancellor to distribute grants to a community college district for the development and curation of open educational resources for coursework. As a condition of receiving funding for the development and curation of open educational resources for coursework, the bill would require a community college district to comply with certain requirements, including to strive to complete development and curation of open educational resources within 2 academic years of receiving funding. The bill would require the chancellor to report, by June 30, 2027, to the Legislature, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and the Department of Finance specified information on the development and implementation of zero-textbook-cost degrees and the development and curation of open educational resources pursuant to the program, including the estimated annual savings to colleges. The bill would authorize funds not awarded in a fiscal year for which funds are appropriated to be awarded in the following fiscal year, and would require the chancellor to award an initial round of grants no later than January 1 of a fiscal year for which funds are appropriated. This bill would appropriate $115,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to provide grants to community college districts to develop zero-textbook-cost degrees using open educational resources pursuant to the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program. (14) Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission to administer various state-funded student financial aid programs. This bill would establish the Golden State Education and Training Grant Program Act, to be administered by the Student Aid Commission. The bill would make available one-time grants to California resident workers who have been displaced from their employment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are not already accessing an educational or training program, can demonstrate financial need, as specified, and agree to use the grant funds to access an educational or qualified training program at a public postsecondary educational institution, as specified, or to obtain training from an eligible training provider. The bill would specify the duties of the commission in setting grant award amounts and establishing priorities and procedures for the award of grants to applicants. The bill would require the commission to collaborate with participating institutions of higher education to facilitate the offering of grant opportunities at campuses. The bill would require the commission to report designated information about the grant program to the Legislature and the Governor no later than December 31, 2023. The bill would declare that undocumented persons are eligible to receive these grants. To the extent that this paragraph would impose new duties on community college districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (15) Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to adopt regulations providing for the payment of apportionments to community college districts on a specified schedule. Existing law, notwithstanding the provisions referenced above, adjusts the payment of apportionments to community college districts commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year to defer $1,453,243,000 of those payments to the subsequent fiscal year in accordance with a designated schedule. This bill would limit the deferral of the payment of $1,453,243,000 of apportionments to community college districts to only the 2020–21 fiscal year, and would revise the schedule of payments. (16) Existing law provides for a formula for the calculation of general purpose apportionments of state funds to community colleges. Existing law provides for base allocations of state funds to be made to community college districts on a full-time equivalent student basis, in amounts differing according to fiscal year, and specified for certain community college districts. Existing law provides specified cost-of-living adjustments to the amounts calculated described above. Existing law requires, for the 2018–19 to 2023–24, inclusive, fiscal years, each community college district with a specified increase in 2017–18 general purpose apportionment funding when computed pursuant to an existing law that is less than the year-over-year cost-of-living adjustments applicable to those fiscal years to receive discretionary resources in an amount needed to ensure that the community college district receives no less than its 2017–18 general purpose apportionment funding computed pursuant to the existing law adjusted for annual year-over-year cost-of-living adjustments. This bill would extend, until the 2024–25 fiscal year, application of the above provision providing discretionary resources based on a community college district's 2017–18 general purpose apportionment funding, thereby extending application of the provision by one year. (17) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways partnership with the governing board of a school district with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and career readiness. This bill would, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act or other statute, require allocation of funds by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to community college districts for the purpose of expanding pathways to law school programs. The bill would authorize the board of governors to contract with a third party entity to provide administrative support for the expansion of these pathways. (18) Existing law requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the Legislature detailing the impact of policy changes required pursuant to the California State University Executive Order No. 1110 relative to incoming California State University freshmen identified as in need of remediation. Under existing law, the report is due by December 1, 2021, but the law requiring the report becomes inoperative on July 1, 2021, 5 months earlier. This bill would instead repeal these provisions, which would take effect immediately. (19) Existing law requires that funding provided to the California State University in the annual budget act to provide summer term financial aid to any student who is eligible for state financial aid and who is a California resident, as specified, be suspended on December 31, 2021, unless estimates accompanying the May Revision to the 2021–22 Governor's Budget reflect excess state General Fund revenues for the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years, as specified. This bill would repeal the provision that would conditionally suspend that California State University summer term financial aid funding on December 31, 2021. (20) Existing law requires funding provided to the University of California in the annual Budget Act for summer term financial aid to any student who is eligible for state financial aid and who is a California resident to be suspended on December 31, 2021, unless a specified condition is satisfied relating to estimated General Fund revenues and expenditures for the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years. This bill would repeal the conditional suspension of the funding provided to the university in the annual Budget Act for summer term financial aid to any student who is eligible for state financial aid and who is a California resident. (21) This bill would enact the Animal Shelter Assistance Act. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature that the regents establish a 5-year program, known as the Animal Shelter Assistance Program, to support the state's policy goal that no adoptable or treatable animal is euthanized by providing grants to government animal control agencies or shelters, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and humane societies, as specified. The bill would request the regents to establish the program in accordance with specified principles and goals, to be administered by the University of California, Davis, Koret Shelter Medicine Program. (22) This bill would require the University of California to annually report, as specified, to the Department of Finance and the budget committees of the Legislature its share of undergraduate enrollment that is nonresident by campus, as specified, and a fiscal estimate of the projected cost to make progress on reducing the share of nonresident students and increasing the share of resident students at campuses of the university, as provided. (23) This bill would establish the California Bench to School Initiative to create the California Institute on Law, Neuroscience, and Education to promote a collaborative focus on neuroscience, law, education, and social justice to improve literacy outcomes in school settings for youth. The institute would include the Memory and Aging Center of UCSF, the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy, and the UC/CSU California Collaborative for Neurodiversity and Learning. The bill would specify the duties to be performed by the institute, including the submission of an annual report to the Legislature on specified topics. The bill would require UCSF, UC Hastings College of the Law, and the UC/CSU California Collaborative for Neurodiversity and Learning, upon receiving funding under the bill, to each appoint one member from their respective institutions to a management committee charged with the development and oversight of the initiative, as specified. The bill would provide for the establishment of an advisory board, with designated membership, to serve as an oversight body for the initiative in order to monitor progress and provide leadership from the perspectives of their respective institutions, organizations, agencies, and groups, and to facilitate collaboration among researchers, practitioners, administrators, legislators, and community stakeholders. (24) Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies, and to include specified components. Existing law requires the office to approve, adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the Department of Food and Agriculture into the standardized emergency management system. This bill would require the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine to develop a program called the California Veterinary Emergency Team, and would require the program to assist in the support and training of a network of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals to assist in the evacuation and care of household and domestic animals and livestock in emergencies statewide, including disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. The bill would also require the program to conduct or support research on best practices for the evacuation and care of the animals in disasters. The bill would require the university, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and the Director of Emergency Services to develop a memorandum of understanding for the university to consult with the secretary and the director regarding the coordination of the program's activities with the state government's disaster response practices and the deployment of the program's participants during disasters. The bill would require these provisions to apply to the university only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make any of these provisions applicable to the university. (25) Existing law requires the California State Library, on or before July 1, 2020, to create a funding opportunities internet web portal that provides a centralized location for grant seekers to find state grant opportunities. Existing law require each state agency, on or before July 1, 2020, to register every grant the state agency administers with the California State Library before commencing a solicitation or award process for distribution of the grant. Existing law requires each state agency, on or before July 1, 2020, to provide for the acceptance of electronic applications for any grant administered by the state agency, as appropriate. Existing law requires the California State Library to create an annual report to the Legislature relating to the effectiveness of the internet web portal, as specified. This bill would require every state agency to provide the California State Library for every grant administered by the state agency postaward data, as specified. (26) Existing provisions of the Local Agency Public Construction Act govern contracting by community college districts. Existing law authorizes the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to enter into a contract or other agreement with the governing board of any community college district whereby the district performs services or acts as a fiscal agent on behalf of the California Community Colleges, if the funds for the contract or agreement are in satisfaction of the state obligation to provide funding under Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, which sets forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of General Fund revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts for each fiscal year. Existing law, until July 1, 2022, exempts the chancellor from the requirement to advertise for or invite bids for those contracts or other agreements that are no more than $20,000,000. Existing law, until July 1, 2022, also exempts from that requirement the renewal of existing contracts or other agreements that the chancellor has entered into with a governing board, regardless of the amount. This bill would extend those end dates by one year, thereby making the exemptions operative until July 1, 2023. (27) The Budget Act of 2020 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2020–21 fiscal year. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2020 by reducing certain appropriations for local assistance to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as provided, and increasing certain appropriations for local assistance to the Student Aid Commission, as specified. (28) This bill would appropriate $511,014,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts to address specified purposes, including scheduled maintenance and special repairs of facilities, at community colleges. (29) 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 meet certain requirements, to integrate existing student-success programs and develop clearly structured, coherent guided pathways programs. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts to support the continued implementation of guided pathways programs pursuant to the California Community College Guided Pathways Grant Program. (30) This bill would appropriate $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community colleges to support efforts to increase student retention rates and enrollment by primarily engaging former community college students who may have withdrawn from a community college due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, current community college students who may be hesitant to remain in a community college due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and prospective students who may be hesitant to enroll in a community college due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill would authorize a community college to use allocated funds to provide a fiscal incentive for students who have withdrawn to reenroll, and for prospective students to enroll, at the college. (31) This bill would appropriate $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts to support students in addressing food insecurity, food pantries serving students, enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known in California as CalFresh, or other means of directly providing nutrition assistance to students. (32) This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts to support the implementation of best practices for success in promoting equal employment opportunity and faculty and staff diversity at California community colleges, as specified. (33) Existing law establishes the California Workforce Development Board, and assigns to the board the responsibility for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to strengthen the alignment of California community colleges with workforce initiatives administered by the California Workforce Development Board. (34) This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to one or more community college districts to support a systemwide effort to, or as grants to community college districts to support district efforts to, provide culturally competent professional development for community college faculty, including leveraging 21st century technology to improve learning outcomes. (35) This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to community college districts to provide additional funds to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and plus students at community colleges. (36) This bill would appropriate $72,852,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts and community colleges for various specified purposes. (37) Certain funds appropriated under this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. (38) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (39) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.