THIRD READING  

Bill No: AB 806

Author: Bloom (D)

Introduced: 2/20/19

Vote: 21

SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 7-0, 6/12/19

AYES: Leyva, Wilk, Chang, Durazo, Glazer, McGuire, Pan

SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: 7-0, 6/24/19

AYES: Portantino, Bates, Bradford, Durazo, Hill, Jones, Wieckowski

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 76-0, 5/9/19 (Consent) - See last page for vote

SUBJECT: Postsecondary education: homeless and former homeless youth

SOURCE: California Coalition for Youth

SchoolHouse Connection

DIGEST:

This bill eliminates the January 1, 2020, sunset date on the granting of priority enrollment for homeless students in the California State University (CSU) and community colleges, and extends this priority to formerly homeless youth, thereby extending priority enrollment for homeless and formerly homeless students into perpetuity. This bill also extends to former homeless youth several benefits and protections that are currently afforded to current and former foster youth and currently homeless students.

ANALYSIS:

Existing law:

Priority enrollment

1. Requires the CSU and each community college district, and requests the University of California (UC), to grant priority for registration for enrollment to a foster youth or former foster youth, or until January 1, 2020, homeless youth. (Education Code § 66025.9)
   
2. Defines “homes youth” as a student under 25 years of age, who has been verified at any time during the 24 months immediately preceding the receipt of the youth’s application for admission by a qualifying postsecondary educational institution as a homeless child or youth, by a specified person or entity. (EC § 66025.9)
   

Homeless and Foster Student Liaison

1. Requires a qualifying postsecondary educational institution to designate a staff member who is employed within the financial aid office to serve as the Homeless and Foster Student Liaison. Existing law requires the liaison to be responsible for understanding the provisions of the federal Higher Education Act pertaining to financial aid eligibility of current and former foster youth and homeless youth, and for identifying services available and appropriate for enrolled students who fall under one or more of these categories. (EC § 67003.5)
   

Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program

1. Establishes the Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program, to be administered by the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to provide financial aid training to high school and community college counselors and advisers who work with students planning to attend or attending a community college. Existing law requires the training to address the specific needs of specified categories of students. (EC § 69514.5)
   

Student Opportunity and Access Program

1. Provides that the Student Opportunity and Access Program is to be administered by CSAC, and authorizes CSAC to apportion funds for the support of projects designed to increase the accessibility of postsecondary educational opportunities for specified categories of elementary and secondary school students. (EC § 69561)
   

Community college student fee waiver

1. Requires the governing board of each community college district to charge each student a fee of $46 per unit per semester, and requires the fee to be waived for any student who meets specified requirements, including status of homeless youth at the time of enrollment. (EC § 76300)

This bill:

Priority enrollment

1. Extends the requirement for the CSU and community colleges, and request for the UC, to grant priority enrollment to apply to formerly homeless youth.
   
2. Eliminates the January 1 2020, sunset date on the granting of priority enrollment for homeless students, thereby extending priority enrollment for homeless and formerly homeless students into perpetuity.
   
3. Modifies the definition of “homeless youth” to include former homeless youth.
   

Homeless and Foster Student Liaison

1. Extends the role of a postsecondary educational institutions’ Homeless and Foster Student Liaison to include former homeless youth.
   

Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program

1. Adds former homeless youth to the categories of students for which financial aid training is to address their needs.
   

Student Opportunity and Access Program

1. Adds former homeless youth to the categories of elementary and secondary students for which the CSAC may apportion funds for the support of projects designed to increase the accessibility of postsecondary educational opportunities for students.
   

Community college student fee waiver

1. Extends existing fee waiver requirements to former homeless youth.

Comments

1. Need for the bill. According to the author, “The current statute allowing homeless youth to access priority enrollment at the California State University, community colleges and the University of California sunsets on January 1, 2020, ending much needed benefits and programs for homeless students. Additionally, due to an oversight in AB 801 (Bloom, Chapter 432, 2016), the definition did not capture current and former homeless youth as it does in AB 1228 (Gipson, Chapter 571, 2015). This bill will rectify this oversight and align the two definitions.”
   
2. Priority enrollment. With regard to the CSU, each campus has established general registration priorities. For example, continuing students generally are allowed to enroll in courses before new students enroll. Some campuses grant secondary priority to students who transferred with an associate or transfer degree, or who participate in the California Promise Program.
   
   Existing law requires the CSU and/or California Community Colleges (CCCs), and requests the UC to grant priority enrollment to the following students:
   
   1. Current and former foster youth (CSU and CCCs).
      
   2. Until January 1, 2020, homeless youth (CSU and CCCs).
      
   3. Any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, and who is a resident of California, who has received an honorable discharge, a general discharge, or an other than honorable discharge, and to any member or former member of the State Military Reserve, for any academic term attended at one of these institutions for four academic years after he or she has left state or federal active duty, which he or she shall use within 15 years of leaving state or federal active duty. (CSU and CCCs).
      
   4. Any student who is a CalWORKs or Tribal TANF recipient (CCCs).
      
   5. Students in the Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services program, and disabled students who are determined to be eligible for disabled student programs and services (CCCs).

FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: Yes

According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, any costs to community colleges districts, the CSU and UC resulting from the bill’s elimination of the sunset date for the granting of priority enrollment for homeless students are expected to be minor and absorbable within existing resources. Additionally, the California Community College Chancellor’s Office indicates that there should not be a significant increase in the Promise Grant for these students since most, if not all, would already qualify. The extension of priority enrollment and the other benefits and protections to formerly homeless youth are also anticipated to be minor.

SUPPORT: (Verified 6/24/19)

California Coalition for Youth (co-source)

SchoolHouse Connection (co-source)

Aspiranet

California Catholic Conference

California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office

City of Santa Monica

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission

National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter

OPPOSITION: (Verified 6/24/19)

None received

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 76-0, 5/9/19

AYES: Aguiar-Curry, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Bigelow, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Brough, Burke, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Chiu, Choi, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Cunningham, Daly, Diep, Eggman, Flora, Fong, Frazier, Friedman, Gabriel, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gipson, Gloria, Gonzalez, Gray, Grayson, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kamlager-Dove, Kiley, Lackey, Levine, Limón, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Patterson, Petrie-Norris, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Salas, Santiago, Smith, Mark Stone, Ting, Waldron, Weber, Wicks, Wood, Rendon

NO VOTE RECORDED: Arambula, Chen, Dahle, Voepel

Prepared by: Lynn Lorber / ED. /

6/26/19 15:59:02

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

Senator Anthony Portantino, Chair

2019 - 2020 Regular Session

AB 806 (Bloom) - Postsecondary education: homeless and former homeless youth

Bill Summary:

This bill eliminates the January 1, 2020, sunset date on the granting of priority enrollment for homeless students in the California State University (CSU), University of California (UC), and the community colleges, and extends this priority to formerly homeless youth. This bill also extends to former homeless youth several benefits and protections that are currently afforded to current and former foster youth and currently homeless students.

Fiscal Impact:

Any costs to community colleges districts, the CSU and UC resulting from the bill’s elimination of the sunset date for the granting of priority enrollment for homeless students are expected to be minor and absorbable within existing resources. Additionally, the Chancellor’s Office indicates that there should not be a significant increase in the Promise Grant for these students since most, if not all, would already qualify. The extension of priority enrollment and the other benefits and protections to formerly homeless youth are also anticipated to be minor.

Background:

Existing law requires the CSU and each community college district, and requests the University of California, to grant priority for registration for enrollment to a foster youth or former foster youth, or until January 1, 2020, homeless youth. The law defines “homes youth” as a student under 25 years of age, who has been verified at any time during the 24 months immediately preceding the receipt of the youth’s application for admission by a qualifying postsecondary educational institution as a homeless child or youth, by a specified person or entity.

Existing law requires a qualifying postsecondary educational institution to designate a staff member who is employed within the financial aid office to serve as the Homeless and Foster Student Liaison. Existing law requires the liaison to be responsible for understanding the provisions of the federal Higher Education Act pertaining to financial aid eligibility of current and former foster youth and homeless youth, and for identifying services available and appropriate for enrolled students who fall under one or more of these categories.

Proposed Law:

This bill extends the requirement for the CSU and community colleges, and requests the UC, to grant priority enrollment to apply to formerly homeless youth. The bill also eliminates the January 1 2020, sunset date on the granting of priority enrollment for homeless students, thereby extending priority enrollment for homeless and formerly homeless students into perpetuity.

This bill modifies the definition of “homeless youth” to include former homeless youth and extends the role of a postsecondary educational institutions’ Homeless and Foster Student Liaison to include former homeless youth. Further, this bill adds former homeless youth to the categories of students for which financial aid training is to address their needs.

This bill adds former homeless youth to the categories of elementary and secondary students for which the California Student Aid Commission may apportion funds for the support of projects designed to increase the accessibility of postsecondary educational opportunities for students, and extends existing fee waiver requirements to former homeless youth.

Related Legislation:

AB 801 (Bloom, Chapter 432, Statutes of 2015), among other things, requires the extension of priority enrollment to homeless youth or former homeless youth at the community colleges and CSU, and requests the UC to make this same extension.

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Senator Connie Leyva, Chair

2019 - 2020 Regular

Bill No: AB 806 Hearing Date: June 12, 2019

Subject: Postsecondary education: homeless and former homeless youth.

SUMMARY

This bill eliminates the January 1, 2020, sunset date on the granting of priority enrollment for homeless students in the California State University (CSU) and community colleges, and extends this priority to formerly homeless youth, thereby extending priority enrollment for homeless and formerly homeless students into perpetuity. This bill also extends to former homeless youth several benefits and protections that are currently afforded to current and former foster youth and currently homeless students.

BACKGROUND

Existing law:

Priority enrollment

1. Requires the CSU and each community college district, and requests the University of California, to grant priority for registration for enrollment to a foster youth or former foster youth, or until January 1, 2020, homeless youth. (Education Code § 66025.9)
   
2. Defines “homes youth” as a student under 25 years of age, who has been verified at any time during the 24 months immediately preceding the receipt of the youth’s application for admission by a qualifying postsecondary educational institution as a homeless child or youth, by a specified person or entity. (EC § 66025.9)
   

Homeless and Foster Student Liaison

1. Requires a qualifying postsecondary educational institution to designate a staff member who is employed within the financial aid office to serve as the Homeless and Foster Student Liaison. Existing law requires the liaison to be responsible for understanding the provisions of the federal Higher Education Act pertaining to financial aid eligibility of current and former foster youth and homeless youth, and for identifying services available and appropriate for enrolled students who fall under one or more of these categories. (EC § 67003.5)
   

Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program

1. Establishes the Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program, to be administered by the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to provide financial aid training to high school and community college counselors and advisers who work with students planning to attend or attending a community college. Existing law requires the training to address the specific needs of specified categories of students. (EC § 69514.5)
   

Student Opportunity and Access Program

1. Provides that the Student Opportunity and Access Program is to be administered by CSAC, and authorizes CSAC to apportion funds for the support of projects designed to increase the accessibility of postsecondary educational opportunities for specified categories of elementary and secondary school students. (EC § 69561)
   

Community college student fee waiver

1. Requires the governing board of each community college district to charge each student a fee of $46 per unit per semester, and requires the fee to be waived for any student who meets specified requirements, including status of homeless youth at the time of enrollment. (EC § 76300)

ANALYSIS

This bill:

Priority enrollment

1. Extends the requirement for the California State University and community colleges, and request for the University of California, to grant priority enrollment to apply to formerly homeless youth.
   
2. Eliminates the January 1 2020, sunset date on the granting of priority enrollment for homeless students, thereby extending priority enrollment for homeless and formerly homeless students into perpetuity.
   
3. Modifies the definition of “homeless youth” to include former homeless youth.
   

Homeless and Foster Student Liaison

1. Extends the role of a postsecondary educational institutions’ Homeless and Foster Student Liaison to include former homeless youth.
   

Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program

1. Adds former homeless youth to the categories of students for which financial aid training is to address their needs.
   

Student Opportunity and Access Program

1. Adds former homeless youth to the categories of elementary and secondary students for which the California Student Aid Commission may apportion funds for the support of projects designed to increase the accessibility of postsecondary educational opportunities for students.
   

Community college student fee waiver

1. Extends existing fee waiver requirements to former homeless youth.

STAFF COMMENTS

1. Need for the bill. According to the author, “The current statute allowing homeless youth to access priority enrollment at the California State University, community colleges and the University of California sunsets on January 1, 2020, ending much needed benefits and programs for homeless students. Additionally, due to an oversight in AB 801 (Bloom, Chapter 432, 2016), the definition did not capture current and former homeless youth as it does in AB 1228 (Gipson, Chapter 571, 2015). This bill will rectify this oversight and align the two definitions”
   
2. Priority enrollment. With regard to the California State University (CSU), each campus has established general registration priorities. For example, continuing students generally are allowed to enroll in courses before new students enroll. Some campuses grant secondary priority to students who transferred with an associate or transfer degree, or who participate in the California Promise Program.
   
   Existing law requires the CSU and/or California Community Colleges (CCCs), and requests the University of California to grant priority enrollment to the following students:
   
   1. Current and former foster youth (CSU and CCCs).
      
   2. Until January 1, 2020, homeless youth (CSU and CCCs).
      
   3. Any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, and who is a resident of California, who has received an honorable discharge, a general discharge, or an other than honorable discharge, and to any member or former member of the State Military Reserve, for any academic term attended at one of these institutions for four academic years after he or she has left state or federal active duty, which he or she shall use within 15 years of leaving state or federal active duty. (CSU and CCCs).
      
   4. Any student who is a CalWORKs or Tribal TANF recipient (CCCs).
      
   5. Students in the Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services program, and disabled students who are determined to be eligible for disabled student programs and services (CCCs).
      
3. Fiscal impact. According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, this bill would impose:
   
   1. Minor Proposition 98 General Fund costs to California Community Colleges (CCC) campuses. Formerly homeless students already qualify for a CCC fee waiver if they are considered low-income. The state would need to reimburse these costs to CCC, if the Commission on State Mandates determines the bill’s requirements to be a reimbursable state mandate.
      
   2. Minor and absorbable General Fund cost pressures to California State University campuses.
      
   3. Minor and absorbable General Fund cost pressures to University of California campuses.

SUPPORT

California Coalition for Youth (co-sponsor)

SchoolHouse Connection (co-sponsor)

Aspiranet

California Catholic Conference

California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office

City of Santa Monica

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission

National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter

OPPOSITION

None received

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Date of Hearing: May 1, 2019

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

Lorena Gonzalez, Chair

ABPCA Bill Id:AB 806

Author:(Bloom) – As Introduced Ver:February 20, 2019

Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: Yes Reimbursable: Yes

SUMMARY:

This bill removes the January 1, 2020, sunset, which provides currently homeless youth with priority enrollment at campuses of the California Community Colleges (CCC), California State University (CSU), and the University of California (UC) and adds formerly homeless youth to those who are eligible for priority enrollment. It also extends to formerly homeless youth several services presently provided to currently homeless youth, including (a) campuses’ Homeless and Foster Student Liaisons, (b) CCC fee waivers and (c) situation-specific training to students planning to attend or attending a community college.

FISCAL EFFECT:

1. Minor Proposition 98 General Fund costs to CCC campuses. Formerly homeless students already qualify for a CCC fee waiver if they are considered low-income. The state would need to reimburse these costs to CCC, if the Commission on State Mandates determines the bill’s requirements to be a reimbursable state mandate.
2. Minor and absorbable General Fund cost pressures to CSU campuses.
3. Minor and absorbable General Fund cost pressures to UC campuses.

COMMENTS:

1. Purpose. According to the author:

Research shows that a higher education degree helps with job placement and greatly reduces the number of young adults that experience homelessness. AB 806 will ensure that the Legislature and state universities continue making great strides in providing the necessary support for homeless youth.

1. Background. Existing law allowing homeless youth eligibility for priority enrollment at the CCC, CSU and UC will sunset on January 1, 2020. Additionally, some provisions in existing law are inconsistently specify that current and former homeless youth are eligible for various benefits.

This bill defines a homeless youth and former homeless youth as a student under 25 years of age who has been verified as homeless at any time during the 24 months preceding the receipt of the youth’s application for admission by a postsecondary institutions, as defined by federal law.

The state’s postsecondary institutions indicate they do not collect information about the number of former foster homeless youth attending their campuses.

Analysis Prepared by: Natasha Collins / APPR. / (916) 319-2081

Date of Hearing: April 2, 2019

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Jose Medina, Chair

ABPCA Bill Id:AB 806 (

Author:Bloom) – As Introduced Ver:February 20, 2019

SUBJECT: Postsecondary education: homeless and former homeless youth.

SUMMARY: Removes the January 1, 2020 sunset, whereby current and former homeless youth are eligible for priority enrollment at campuses of the California Community Colleges (CCC), California State University (CSU), and the University of California (UC); aligns the definition of “homeless youth” to other provisions of existing law; specifies that current or former homeless youth are eligible for the CCC fee waiver; and, makes technical and clarifying changes to existing law.

EXISTING LAW:

Federal law.

1. Establishes the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 to ensure educational rights and protections for youth experiencing homelessness (42 United States Code (U.S.C.) 11431, et seq.).
2. Defines "homeless children and youth" to mean individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, as specified, including children and youth who are:
   1. Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason;
   2. Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
   3. Living in emergency or transitional shelters;
   4. Abandoned in hospitals;
   5. Awaiting foster care placement;
   6. Inhabiting a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation, as specified;
   7. Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and,
   8. Migratory, as defined, and who otherwise qualify as homeless per this definition (42 U.S.C. 11434(a)(2)).

State law.

1. Requires, among other provisions, institutions of higher education to designate a Homeless and Foster Youth Student Liaison and provides that homeless youth are eligible for specific financial aid, enrollment priority (until January 1, 2020), and other services. Specifies that students' status as homeless must be verified by one of the following: (1) a homeless services provider; (2) the director of a federal TRIO or Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs program, or a designee of that director; (3) a financial aid administrator for an institution of higher education; or, (4) a designated homeless and foster student liaison (Education Code (EC) Sections 66025.9 and 67003.5).
2. Requires the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC), in consultation with the CCC Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO), to establish the Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program for the purpose of providing financial aid training to high school and CCC counselors and advisors who work with students planning to attend or currently attending a CCC. Specifies that the training shall, in part, address the specific needs of homeless youth. Requires CSAC to administer the Student Opportunity and Access Program, in part, to homeless youth (EC Sections 69514.5 and 69561).
3. Requires the governing board of each community college district to charge each student $46 per unit per semester. Waives the $46 per unit per semester for several categories of students, including homeless youth (EC 76300).
4. Ensures that current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth who are students at the campuses of the CCC have stable housing, by requesting a CCC campus to give priority for housing to current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth. Additionally, requests a CCC campus that maintains student housing facilities open for occupation during school breaks, or on a year-round basis, to give first priority to current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth for residence in the housing facilities that are open for uninterrupted year-round occupation, and next give priority to current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth for housing that is open for occupation during the most days in the calendar year (EC Section 76010).
5. Ensures that current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth who are students at campuses of the CSU and UC have stable housing, by requiring a CSU and UC campus that maintains student housing facilities to give priority to current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth. Additionally, a CSU or UC campus that maintains student housing facilities open for occupation during school breaks, or on a year-round basis, shall first give priority to current and former homeless youth and current or former foster youth for residence in the housing facilities that are open for uninterrupted year-round occupation, and next give priority to current and former homeless youth and current or former foster youth for housing that is open for occupation during the most days in the calendar year. Specifies that the UC shall adhere to said requirements to the extent that the UC Regents approve to do so by an appropriate resolution (EC Sections 90001.5 and 92660).

FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown

COMMENTS: Background. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), insufficient housing undermines postsecondary educational experiences and credential attainment for many of today’s college students. Data continues to remain sparse on the issue. According to the GAO, as of the beginning of 2019, there are only 31 quality studies of campus food and housing insecurities, and of the 31, very few involve multiple colleges.

According to a March 2019 Report, entitled, California Community Colleges #RealCollege Survey, in 2018, homelessness affected 19% of students attending CCCs. Additionally, according to the CSU Basic Needs Initiative Study of 2018, over 10% of CSU students on average reported being homeless one or more times in the last 12 months. Further, according to the California Homeless Youth Project and SchoolHouse Connection, over the span of the last couple of years, one in 20, or 5% of UC students reported experiencing homelessness.

Need for the measure. According to the author, “Research shows that a higher education degree helps with job placement and greatly reduces the number of young adults that experience homelessness. AB 806 will ensure that the Legislature and state universities continue making great strides in providing the necessary support for homeless youth”.

Existing law allowing homeless youth eligibility for priority enrollment at the CCC, CSU, and UC, will sunset on January 1, 2020. Additionally, some provisions in existing law, are not consistent in specifying that current and former homeless youth are eligible for various benefits.

This measure removes the sunset, as aforementioned, and ensures that current and former homeless youth are eligible for the same benefits, as specified in existing law.

Legislative efforts to address homeless students. The number of homeless postsecondary students continues to grow. During the course of the past few years, the Legislature has sought to address the unique needs of these students. Legislative efforts include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. AB 1018 (Reyes), Chapter 751, Statutes of 2017, in part, required the governing board of each CCC district to add homeless students to the categories of students required to be addressed in their student equity plans;
2. AB 1076 (Medina) of 2017, which was held on the Suspense File in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, in part, required the Legislative Analyst’s Office, in consultation with the UC, the CSU, and the CCC, to conduct a study on the implementation of existing statutes to ensure homeless students have housing during the time their respective campuses are not in session;
3. SB 307 (Nguyen) of 2017, which was held on the Suspense File in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, in part, requested the UC Regents to convene a task force, consisting of three UC representatives selected by the Regents, three representatives of the CSU selected by the CSU Trustees, and three representatives of the CCC selected by the CCC Board of Governors, to conduct a study to determine the extent, causes, and effects of housing insecurity and homelessness of current postsecondary students in this state, and required the study to be submitted to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2018;

1. AB 801 (Bloom), Chapter 432, Statutes of 2016, in part, extended priority enrollment to homeless youth, as defined, at the CSU and the CCC, and requested that the UC make the same extension; and, required the designation of a Homeless and Foster Student Liaison at each postsecondary educational institution participating in the Cal Grant program;
2. AB 1995 (Williams), Chapter 407, Statutes of 2016, in part, required CCC campuses to grant enrolled homeless students access and usage of campus shower facilities; and,
3. AB 1228 (Gipson), Chapter 571, Statutes of 2015, in part, extended priority for housing at the UC, CSU, and the CCC to homeless youth, and requested campuses to develop plans to ensure that homeless youth have housing during semester or quarter breaks.

REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:

Support

California Coalition for Youth (Co-Sponsor)
California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (Co-Sponsor)
SchoolHouse Connection (Co-Sponsor)
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

Opposition

None on file.

Analysis Prepared by: Jeanice Warden / HIGHER ED. / (916) 319-3960