AB 573 — Higher education: campus closures: Corinthian Colleges.

Summary

(1) The California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 provides for the regulation of private postsecondary educational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act also establishes the Student Tuition Recovery Fund and requires the bureau to adopt regulations governing the administration and maintenance of the fund, including requirements relating to assessments on students and student claims against the fund, and establishes that the moneys in this fund are continuously appropriated to the bureau for specified purposes. The act caps the amount that may be in the fund at any time at $25,000,000. This bill would raise the cap for the fund to $30,000,000. (2) This bill would appropriate the sum of $1,300,000 from the Student Tuition Recovery Fund to the Attorney General for the purposes of providing grants to eligible nonprofit community service organizations to assist eligible students affected by the closure of Corinthian Colleges, Inc., as defined, with loan discharge and other student loan-related requests and tuition recovery-related claims, and to pay an amount not to exceed $150,000 for the reasonable administrative costs of the Attorney General's office related to these grants, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the bureau to notify the Attorney General of all unlawful Corinthian Colleges, Inc., closures within 15 days of the effective date of these provisions. The bill would require the Attorney General to, among other things, within 90 days of the notification, solicit grant applications from eligible nonprofit community service organizations, select one or more of these organizations deemed to be qualified, and set additional terms and conditions of the grants as necessary. The bill would set a schedule for how grant funds are to be distributed. The bill would require the grantee to submit specified information to the Attorney General on a quarterly basis, and require the Attorney General to make these reports available to the Legislature and the bureau upon request. The bill would require the Attorney General to provide the Legislature and the bureau a final report summarizing all the information submitted to it by grantees, promptly following the time when all funds are expended by the grantees, or by August, 1, 2018, whichever is earlier. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to contract with another qualified entity to perform the Attorney General's duties under these provisions. (3) This bill would, for a period not to exceed 2 years from April 27, 2015, authorize state agencies that provide certification, registration, or licensure necessary to promote the safety and protection of the public to, on a case-by-case basis, consider for certification, registration, or licensure students who were enrolled in a program of Corinthian Colleges, Inc., that provided education or training aimed towards these students receiving certification, registration, or licensure from the state agency, and who did not receive that certification, registration, or licensure due to the closure of that institution. (4) The Cal Grant Program prohibits an applicant from receiving Cal Grant awards totaling in excess of the amount equivalent to the award level for a total of four years of full-time attendance in an undergraduate program, except as provided. This bill would partially exempt from this limitation on Cal Grant awards a student who was enrolled and received a Cal Grant award at a California campus of Heald College, and who was unable to complete an educational program offered by the campus due to its closure. (5) The California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program authorizes the renewal of California National Guard Education Assistance Awards, for a maximum of the greater of either four years of full-time equivalent enrollment or the duration for which the qualifying member would otherwise be eligible pursuant to the Cal Grant Program, if specified conditions are met. This bill would partially exempt from this limitation on California National Guard Education Assistance Awards a student who was enrolled and received a California National Guard Education Assistance Award at a California campus of Heald College, and who was unable to complete an educational program offered by the campus due to its closure. (6) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Bill Text

• Enrolled 09/16/15 - Enrolled Current pdf September 16, 2015
• Amended 09/04/15 - Amended Senate pdf September 04, 2015
• Amended 08/31/15 - Amended Senate pdf August 31, 2015
• Amended 08/18/15 - Amended Senate pdf August 18, 2015
• Amended 07/09/15 - Amended Senate pdf July 09, 2015
• Amended 06/02/15 - Amended Senate pdf June 02, 2015
• Amended 05/11/15 - Amended Assembly pdf May 11, 2015
• Amended 05/07/15 - Amended Assembly pdf May 07, 2015
• Amended 05/04/15 - Amended Assembly pdf May 04, 2015
• Introduced 02/24/15 - Introduced pdf February 24, 2015
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Action History

1. April 21, 2016

   Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5.

2. October 08, 2015

   Vetoed by Governor.

3. September 23, 2015

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

4. September 11, 2015

   Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3195.).

5. September 11, 2015

   Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3194.)

6. September 11, 2015

   In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

7. September 11, 2015

   Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2739.).

8. September 08, 2015

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

9. September 04, 2015

   Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

10. August 31, 2015

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

11. August 27, 2015

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 27).

12. August 24, 2015

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

13. August 18, 2015

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

14. August 17, 2015

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15).

15. July 09, 2015

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.

16. July 08, 2015

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29).

17. June 30, 2015

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

18. June 17, 2015

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

19. June 02, 2015

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

20. May 28, 2015

    Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and ED.

21. May 14, 2015

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

22. May 14, 2015

    Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1445.).

23. May 13, 2015

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

24. May 12, 2015

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 12).

25. May 12, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.

26. May 11, 2015

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended.

27. May 11, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.

28. May 07, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

29. May 07, 2015

    Read and amended. (Page 1328.)

30. May 07, 2015

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

31. May 06, 2015

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 6).

32. May 05, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

33. May 04, 2015

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended.

34. April 29, 2015

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

35. March 09, 2015

    Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.

36. February 25, 2015

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.

37. February 24, 2015

    Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

• Alejo · Cosponsor
• Baker · Cosponsor
• Block · Cosponsor
• Brown · Cosponsor
• Runner · Cosponsor
• Atkins · Cosponsor
• Bonilla · Cosponsor
• Chau · Cosponsor
• Chiu · Cosponsor
• Chu · Cosponsor
• Chávez · Cosponsor
• Dababneh · Cosponsor
• Cooley · Cosponsor
• Eggman · Cosponsor
• Frazier · Cosponsor
• Galgiani · Cosponsor
• Mike A. Gipson · Cosponsor
• Hadley · Cosponsor
• Hill · Cosponsor
• Kim · Cosponsor
• Medina · Primary
• McCarty · Cosponsor
• O'Donnell · Cosponsor
• Olsen · Cosponsor
• Quirk · Cosponsor
• Ridley-Thomas · Cosponsor
• Rodriguez · Cosponsor
• Santiago · Cosponsor
• Thurmond · Cosponsor
• Ting · Cosponsor
• Wieckowski · Cosponsor
• Lisa Calderon · Cosponsor
• Beth Gaines · Cosponsor

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