AB 1267: Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program: private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions.
- Session Year: 2017-2018
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2017-02-17
Existing law, known as the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, establishes 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 under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions.
Existing law establishes the maximum tuition award amount for each Cal Grant A and B award for new recipient students attending private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions at $9,084 for the 201516 and 201617 award years and $8,056 for the 201718 award year and each award year thereafter. Existing law also establishes these amounts as the maximum tuition award amounts for new recipients attending private for-profit postsecondary educational institutions that are accredited, as specified.
This bill would instead increase the maximum tuition award amount for Cal Grant A and B awards for new recipients at private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions to no less than $10,000 for the 201718 award year and each award year thereafter. For these award years, the maximum tuition award amounts would remain at $8,056 for new recipients attending accredited private for-profit postsecondary educational institutions as referred to above. If the bill takes effect after Cal Grant A and B awards are disbursed at the start of the 201718 award year, the bill would require the commission to provide to the student an additional disbursement in the amount of the difference between the amount of the original award and an amount determined by the commission pursuant to the changes made by the bills provisions.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(a)Cal Grant Program awards shall be known as Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards, Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards, California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, Cal Grant C Awards, and Cal Grant T Awards.
(b)Maximum award amounts for students at independent institutions and for Cal Grant C and T awards shall be identified in the annual Budget Act. Maximum award amounts for Cal Grant A and B awards for students attending public institutions shall be referenced in the annual Budget Act.
(c)(1)Notwithstanding subdivision (b), and subdivision (c) of Section 66021.2, commencing with the 201314 award year, the maximum tuition award amounts for Cal Grant A and B awards for students attending private for-profit and nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions shall be as follows:
(A)Four thousand dollars ($4,000) for new recipients attending private for-profit postsecondary educational institutions.
(B)For the 201516 and 201617 award years, nine thousand eighty-four dollars ($9,084) for new recipients attending private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions. For the 201718 award year and each award year thereafter, eight thousand fifty-six dollars ($8,056) no less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), as determined in the annual Budget Act, for new recipients attending private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions.
(2)The renewal award amount for a student whose initial award is subject to a maximum award amount specified in this subdivision shall be calculated pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 69433.
(3)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), for the 201718 award year and each award year thereafter, the maximum tuition award amounts for new recipients attending private for-profit postsecondary educational institutions that are accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges as of July 1, 2012, shall have the same maximum tuition award amounts as are set forth in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1). be eight thousand fifty-six dollars ($8,056).
SEC. 2.Section 69432.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:69432.1.(a)If the act that added this section takes effect after Cal Grant A and B awards are disbursed at the start of the 201718 award year, the commission shall provide to the student an additional disbursement in the amount of the difference between the amount of the original award and an amount determined pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 69432, as amended by the act that added this section.
(b)This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2022, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2022, deletes or extends that date.
SEC. 3.This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to address imminent cuts of Cal Grant aid for students attending private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions, which would limit educational opportunities for California students, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
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| Feb 1, 2018 | From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. |
| Jan 31, 2018 | Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. |
| Mar 13, 2017 | Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. |
| Feb 19, 2017 | From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. |
| Feb 17, 2017 | Read first time. To print. |
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