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AB 90 (Jackson)
Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Overnight Student Parking
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee – Suspense File
Position: Oppose
Summary: This bill would require each community college district (CCD) and the Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) to establish a program to allow overnight parking by eligible students. The bill would require CCDs, with the participation of basic needs coordinators, and the Chancellor of the CSU, with the participation of student representatives, to determine a plan of action for implementing these programs. The bill would impose duties on basic needs coordinators related to the community college programs, including when acceptance of applications from eligible students would begin.
This bill would also require an eligible student who participates in a program to be granted access to overnight parking until the student is provided access to a suitable alternative, including a hotel voucher through a public agency or community organization. The bill would provide that a campus is not civilly liable for a campus employee’s good faith act or omission that fails to prevent an injury to a participating student that occurs in, or in close proximity to, and during the hours of operation of, overnight parking. The bill would require campuses to report to the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office or the Chancellor of the CSU certain information, including the socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds of participating students.
AB 1028 (Fong)
Title: Community Colleges: Temporary Employees
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Position: Oppose
Summary: The bill would require, if a community college district (CCD) terminates the employment of a temporary employee, that the procedure for terminating the temporary employee complies with the provisions of the local collective bargaining agreement that pertain to the termination of a temporary employee. If there are no provisions that pertain to the termination of a temporary employee in the local collective bargaining agreement, the bill would require the CCD to provide a written explanation for the termination of the temporary employee, if the temporary employee submits a written request within ten calendar days of the termination.
AB 1247 (Garcia)
Title: Classified Employees: School Districts and Community College Districts: Contracting Out: Training Requirements
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Position: Oppose
Summary: This bill would stipulate that when community college or school districts contract out services traditionally performed by classified employees to achieve cost savings, the contracts must ensure that contractors provide health care or retirement benefits to their employees that are equivalent to those offered to direct hires and confirm that contracted workers meet or exceed the minimum qualifications and standards required of direct hires performing the same functions. The bill would also mandate that classified employees receive compensation at their regular rate of pay for time spent completing any training required by law, collective bargaining agreements, or employer policies. Additionally, the bill would require that all mandated trainings, whether conducted online or in person, provide opportunities for employees to ask questions and receive real-time responses from a qualified individual. The bill specifies that trainings related to child abuse reporting, suicide prevention, sexual harassment, or discrimination must be conducted in person.
SB 494 (Cortese)
Title: Classified School and Community College Employees: Disciplinary Hearings: Appeals: Contracted Administrative Law Judges
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee – Suspense File
Position: Oppose
Summary: This bill would authorize a permanent classified employee of a community college district or K-12 school district to appeal disciplinary action to a contracted administrative law judge, paid by the school district and jointly selected by the district and the employee or their employee organization unless the employee organization and the school district have agreed to an alternative method of appealing disciplinary action. The bill would require this alternative method of appealing a disciplinary action to be subject to judicial review pursuant to specified standards of review of arbitration awards.
AB 648 (Zbur)
Title: Community Colleges: Housing: Local Zoning Regulations: Exemption
Status: Assembly Floor – Third Reading
Position: Support
Summary: This bill would exempt the construction of faculty and staff housing projects, student housing projects, and university housing development projects from local zoning regulations of any city, county, or city and county when constructed on property owned or leased by a community college district, if the parcel on which the project will be constructed meets either of the following requirements:
- The parcel is contained either wholly or partially within a one-half mile radius of a main campus
- The parcel is contained either wholly or partially within a one-half mile radius of a satellite campus that existed before July 1, 2025
AB 850 (Pacheco)
Title: Institutional Debt Transparency Act
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee – Suspense File
Position: Oppose
Summary: This bill would limit all post-secondary institutions from placing an enrollment or registration hold on students who owe institutional debt unless all the following are done:
- The institution grants a one-time exemption from an enrollment/registration hold to a student
- The institution notifies the student of the one-time exemption in writing and that the accumulation of additional debt or failure to pay or enter into a payment plan by the end of the academic term may result in an enrollment or registration hold
- The enrollment/registration hold is not placed on students within good standing on a payment plan
AB 1400 (Soria)
Title: Community Colleges: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Position: Support
Summary: This bill would require the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) to develop a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that authorizes select community college districts (CCDs) to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The bill would limit the pilot program to 15 CCDs statewide and would require the CCCCO to identify and select eligible CCDs based on specified criteria. The bill would require the CCCCO to develop a process designed to assist CCDs with nursing programs that are applying for national accreditation for the purpose of qualifying for the pilot program, as provided. The bill would require each participating CCD to give priority registration for enrollment in the pilot program to students with an associate degree in nursing from that CCD. The program would sunset on January 1, 2035.
