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AB
358 (Liu)
Version 8-30-05
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Cal Grant: Indexing Private Independent
College CalGrant
· This bill would express legislative intent that the maximum grant for Cal Grant recipients in 4-year programs at independent institutions be set and adjusted annually to equal the estimated General Fund cost of educating a student at the public 4-year institutions. · This bill would require that, in the 2006-07 academic year, the maximum amount of a grant under the Cal Grant Program would be at least 80% of the estimated General Fund cost as defined; in the 2007-08 academic year, the maximum amount of a grant under the program would be at least 90% of the estimated General Fund cost; and, in the 2008-09 academic year and each academic year thereafter, the maximum amount of a grant under the program would be at least 100% of the estimated General Fund cost. · This bill would require the Student Aid Commission, in consultation with the segments of postsecondary education, to review the policy relating to the funding of first-year, need-based grants, to analyze alternative funding policies and the potential costs associated with various alternatives, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before September 1, 2006. |
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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AB
476 (Baca)
Version 1-13-06
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Assumption Program Loans for
Education
· This bill would require that all persons eligible to enter into agreements for loan assumption pursuant to the Assumption Program of Loans for Education be persons who either need to complete training or coursework to be fully credentialed, and who agree to obtain a credential, or who currently hold a teaching credential and are pursuing a single subject teaching credential to teach science or math mathematics, or are pursuing a specialist credential in special education.
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Recommended
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
751 (Chu)
Version 3-7-06
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Private Financial Aid Servicers
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To
be amended to establish
a financial aid and scholarship fraud unit at the Department of Consumer
Affairs to regulate private financial aid servicers in California
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Recommended
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
840 (Arambula)
Version 3-7-06
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CalGrant: Transfer
Entitlement Program
· This bill would, commencing with the 2006-07 award year, exempt from this requirement a student who graduated from a high school outside of California due solely to orders received from a branch of the United States Armed Forces by that student or by that student's parent or guardian that required that student to be outside of California at the time of high school graduation. The bill would also exempt from this requirement students for whom claims under this program were paid prior to December 1, 2005, and students for whom a valid claim under this program for the 2004 -05 award year or the fall term of the 2005-06 award year was or is received paid on or after December 1, 2005, but no later than June 30 October 15, 2006. · This bill would require the commission, commencing with the 2006-07 award year, to make preliminary awards to all applicants currently eligible for an award under the California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Program and to require each person who receives a preliminary award to affirm, in writing, under penalty of perjury, that he or she meets specified requirements for eligibility in the program. · This bill would require the commission to select, at random, 10% of the written affirmations required under the bill, and to require, as a condition for payment of a first claim under the program, that the postsecondary institution making the request for that claim verify that the student meets specified requirements for eligibility in the program. · This bill would require the commission, on or before November 1 of each year, to submit a report to the Legislature and the Governor including, but not necessarily limited to, the number of awards made under this program in the preceding 12 months and the number of written affirmations selected, in the preceding 12 months, for verification under the bill, as categorized by type of postsecondary institution, as specified. · This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. · This bill would extend the application of this provision to awards made to students under the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Act. · This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. |
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Recommended
Position:
Support
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
1315 (Liu)
Version 1-23-06
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CalGrant: CalGrant B Awards Access
Grant increase
· This bill would require the maximum award for access costs, for the 2006-07 award year, to be in an annual amount that equals at least $1551 $1,551. Commencing with the 2007-08 award year, the bill would require the maximum award for access costs to be increased by not less than 5% and not more than 10% per year until the that amount equals at least 20% of the access costs for the budget category of a student living off-campus, as determined by the triennial Student Expense and Resource Survey, as adjusted for cost-of-living changes in a specified manner.
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Recommended
Position:
Support
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
1399 (Garcia)
Version 1-9-06
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CalGrant: Eligibilty for Children of
Active duty Military
· This bill would add children of California National Guard members who have ever been, at any time, called into active service or who are in active service, as specified, to the existing selection criteria that give applicants for competitive Cal Grant A and Cal Grant B awards additional consideration. |
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Recommended
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
1532 (Bass)
Version 1-13-06
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CalGrant: Foster Youth
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This bill would exempt otherwise eligible
foster youth, as defined, from those March 2 deadlines, commencing with
applications for the 2007-08 award year. The bill would require the
commission to make a preliminary award to a foster youth without requiring
the report of a grade point average and to develop and adopt procedures to
secure the required grade point average information after the identification
of an otherwise eligible foster youth. Under the bill, no award would be
final until official evidence is provided that the student met the high
school or community college grade point average requirements
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Recommended
Position:
Support
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
1869 (Walters)
Version 2-27-06
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CalGrant: National Guard
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This bill would establish the Cal Grant NG Award
Program. The bill would require that, commencing with the 2007 -08 academic
year, Cal Grant NG awards would be made to members of the California National
Guard, the State Military Reserve, and the Naval Militia for tuition and
mandatory system-wide fees for a maximum of 4 academic years of full-time
attendance at a campus or campuses of the California Community Colleges or at
a campus of the California State University or the University of California,
or at a combination of these institutions. The bill would
require that at least 1,500 new Cal Grant NG awards would be granted each
academic year.
§
This
bill would require that, as a condition for receiving a Cal
Grant
NG award, a person shall have served, or have committed to
serve,
at least 4 years of active reserve duty with the California
National
Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the Naval Militia.
§ This bill would require the commission to establish specified criteria for setting priorities for making Cal Grant NG awards, but would prohibit any of these criteria from being related to the age of an applicant for a Cal Grant NG award. The bill would prohibit a person who is eligible for specified federal veteran's benefits from receiving a Cal Grant NG award. § This bill would require the commission and the Military Department to work cooperatively in establishing procedures to implement the bill. § This bill would make various technical and conforming changes in the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Act. |
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Recommended
Position:
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
1923 (Nation)
Version 1-31-06
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Military and Veterans: Education
Benefits
§ This bill would prohibit any campus of the California State University or the California Community Colleges from charging any tuition or fees to any qualified member, as defined. |
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Recommended
Position:
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
2262 (Baca)
Version 2-22-06
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Assumption
Program Loans for Education: Career Technical Education.
§ This bill would add career technical education to the subjects for which a person holding an appropriate credential, and teaching, could earn these additional loan assumption benefits under the Assumption Program of Loans for Education.
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This bill would add special education and
career technical education
to the credential subjects that qualify for this priority.
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Recommended
Position:
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
2313 (Arambula)
Version 2-22-06
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CalGrant: Nursing Education
Competitive awards
§ This bill would provide that, commencing with the 2007-08 academic year, and in each academic year thereafter, a student who has previously obtained a baccalaureate degree that will be enrolled at a qualified institution in the pursuit of a baccalaureate degree in the field of nursing shall be eligible to apply for a Competitive Cal Grant A or B award. The bill would make a conforming exception in the existing provision of the act that authorizes only the Cal Grant T awards to be granted to a person who has already obtained a baccalaureate degree. |
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Recommended
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
2472 (Wyland)
Version 2-23-06
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Tuition and Fees - Armed Forces eligibility for Waivers,
Graduate Student Residency, Eliminate AB540 Exemption
§ This bill would eliminate the one-year limitation on resident classification for graduate students, and would additionally entitle members of the military reserves and military veterans, as defined, as well as members of the immediate families of those persons, as defined, to resident classification. To the extent that this provision would require community college districts to change their practices with respect to determining residency, the provision would impose a state-mandated local program. § This bill would request the Regents of the University of California to establish, for students enrolled at the University of California, the same residency requirements as those established by this bill. § This bill would delete that exemption from payment of nonresident tuition, at the California Community Colleges and the California State University, for persons without lawful immigration status. To the extent that this provision would require community college districts to change their practices with respect to the determination of eligibility for an exemption from payment of nonresident tuition, the provision would impose a state-mandated local program. § 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 these statutory provisions. |
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Recommended
Position:
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
2489 (Leno)
Version 2-24-06
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Foster Youth - Educational Services
§ This bill would, instead, provide that in addition to the 6 specified program sites, any other county office of education, consortium of school districts in cooperation with the county office of education, or consortium of county offices of education, may elect to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for grant funding, to the extent funds are available, to operate an education-based foster youth services program to provide educational services for foster children.
§ This bill would require, if sufficient funds are available, these programs to have at least one educational services advocate, and would specify the duties to be performed by these advocates. It would set priorities for the services to be delivered by these programs. § This bill would establish a waiver from mandatory system-wide fees or tuition at the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, for resident foster youth who resided in foster care at age 14 or older. That provision would apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California acts, by resolution, to make it applicable. To the extent that this bill would require community colleges to adjust their procedures for calculating enrollment fees, it would impose a state-mandated local program. § This bill would exempt a person who resided in a regularly established licensed or approved foster home at 14 years of age or older, and who is accepted to a public postsecondary education institution in this state, from the requirements to submit a grade point average and information to determine financial need on an official financial aid application for the purposes of the program. § This bill would make statements of legislative intent relating to the establishment and provision of funding for a matching program for federal Chaffee Higher Education Grants for foster youth. The provisions of the bill would be known as the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2006. § 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 these statutory provisions. |
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Recommended
Position:
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
2551 (Blakeslee)
Version 2-23-06
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Assumption Program Loans for
Education: National Guard
§ This bill would appropriate $3,000,000 from the General Fund to the Student Aid Commission for purposes of funding the National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education. |
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Recommended
Position:
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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AB
2813 (De La Torre)
Version 3-7-06
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CalGrant: Authorize Cal Grant B Award
tuition/Fee benefits, Change Age limitiation on CG Transfer Entitlement
Program, Increase Competitive authorization for Competitive grant awards
§ This bill would delete the requirement that, in a student's first year of enrollment in a qualifying institution, the maximum Cal Grant B award is only for the amount of the access award. (2) Under the existing California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Program, the eligibility criteria include a requirement that the student not meet the federal definition of independent student, with the exception of students who are 24 years old or older and who are orphans or wards of the court, veterans of the United States Armed Forces, married, have dependents other than a spouse, or for whom a financial aid administrator makes a documented determination of independence by reason of other unusual circumstances. § This bill would raise the age limit for the exceptions listed above from 24 years old or older to 27 years old or older. (3) Existing law limits the number of Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards that may be granted annually to 22,500. § This bill would increase the annual limit of Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards to 45,000. |
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Recommended
Position:
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Concerns/Reasons for position:
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Abc
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SB
160 (Cedillo)
Version 3-9-06
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Financial Aid: CA Dream Act
Institutional aid and Fee Waivers for AB540 students
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