Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that appropriates funding for the state higher education budget in California.

Highlights:

• Appropriates funding for the state higher education budget in California (Sec. 1-25).

• Requires the University of California to fund construction grants for 2 specified student housing projects using revenue bond funding issued by the University of California.

• Requires the Scholarshare Investment Board to partner with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Riverside County Office of Education to explore ways to increase participation in the KIDS Program (Sec. 1-25).

• Requires the board, on or before September 30, 2025, and in collaboration with those local educational agencies, to report certain information to the Department of Finance and the Legislature related to those partnerships. instead require the California State University, and request the University of California, to begin working on establishing the above-described model uniform set of academic standards on or after October 1, 2025, and would require the model uniform set of academic standards to also be established for college-level coursework taken for credit at a California public college or university by a pupil simultaneously enrolled in high school, as provided (Sec. 1-25).

• Requires the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to post on its internet website the model uniform set of academic standards for college-level coursework taken for credit at a California public college or university, as provided (Sec. 1-25).

• Requires each participating institution, as a condition for its voluntary participation in the Cal Grant Program, to annually report to the commission specified information regarding its undergraduate programs. Existing law requires the commission to provide on its website the information submitted by a Cal Grant participating institution under the reporting requirement described above and other information and links that are useful to students and parents who are in the process of selecting a college or university (Sec. 1-25).

• Authorizes the systemwide central office of a public postsecondary educational institution acting on behalf of the participating institution to annually report to the commission the information regarding the institution’s undergraduate programs, as provided (Sec. 1-25).

• Amends the data required to be reported to the commission, establishes an alternative method for reporting that data, and requires the data reported to the commission to be reported in a manner that complies with applicable federal and state laws to protect individual privacy, as specified (Sec. 1-25).

• Appropriates $5,100,000 from the General Fund to theBoard of Governors to provide grants through a community college district to California community-based organizations for financial aid outreach and application assistance supporting current and prospective community college students, as provided (Sec. 1-25).

• Appropriates $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors to support emergency financial assistance grants to students attending a community college, as specifie (Sec. 1-25). 

• Appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors to support Dreamer Resource Liaisons in assisting students, as described above (Sec. 1-25).

• Appropriates $10,000,000 to the board of governors to support the California Healthy School Food Pathway program, as provided (Sec. 1-25).

• Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governorsto support the California Healthy School Food Pathway program (Sec. 1-25). 

• Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Governors for transfer to a community college for allocation to the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Council to conduct Emergency Medical Technician and Paramedic Preapprenticeship Training Academies (Sec. 1-25).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill declare an emergency and shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 26).

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