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AB 240: Community colleges: study: Counties of Amador, Alpine, Mariposa, Modoc, and Sierra.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2025-03-10

Current Status:

Failed

(2026-02-02: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.)

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Existing law establishes the Milton Marks Little Hoover Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy (Little Hoover Commission) for purposes of securing assistance for the Governor and the Legislature in promoting economy, efficiency, and improved service in the transaction of the public business in the various departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch of the state government, and in making the operation of all state departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, and all expenditures of public funds, more directly responsive to the wishes of the people as expressed by their elected representatives, as provided.

Existing law establishes the California State Library, which includes the California Research Bureau, under the control of an executive known as the State Librarian. Existing law authorizes the California State Library to serve as the central reference and research library for the departments of state government and to, among other things, maintain adequate legislative reference and research library services for the Legislature.

Existing law declares as legislative policy that all of the territory of the state shall be included within a community college district, except that territory located within a county where the county residents accounted for fewer than 350 units of average daily attendance in the states community colleges during the preceding fiscal year, and that territory located within such a county may be included within a community college district pursuant to prescribed procedures.

This bill instead would declare as legislative policy that all of the territory of the state shall be included within a community college district or otherwise provided with equivalent opportunities for residents to participate in both in-person and online postsecondary education community college programs and courses.

This bill would require the Little Hoover Commission California Research Bureau to conduct a study and prepare a report evaluating the provision of postsecondary education community college services and opportunities to residents of the underserved Counties of Amador, Alpine, Mariposa, Modoc, and Sierra that are not fully included within the territory of a community college district, and would require the report to include policy recommendations regarding how the state can ensure that residents of those 5 counties have opportunities to participate in both in-person and online postsecondary education community college programs and courses equivalent to those of similarly sized communities that are fully included within the territory of a community college district, as provided. To assist with and inform the development of the report and recommendations, the bill would require the Little Hoover Commission California Research bureau to convene and consult a working group that includes specified voluntary representatives, and would authorize the Little Hoover Commission bureau to request and receive information from specified entities. The bill would require the Little Hoover Commission California Research bureau to submit the report and recommendations to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature and to Assembly Committee on Higher Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Governor on or before December 31, 2026. 2027. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2031. 2032.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Amador, Alpine, Mariposa, Modoc, and Sierra.

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AB 240: Community colleges: study: Counties of Amador, Alpine, Mariposa, Modoc, and Sierra. | Digital Democracy