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AB 1171 (PATEL)
Title: Part-Time Community College Faculty Health Insurance Program
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee
Position: Oppose
Summary:
Existing law helps community college districts provide health insurance to part-time faculty by covering up to half of premium costs and distributing any remaining program funds to eligible districts. Unused funds currently revert to the General Fund. This bill would instead place unused funds into a new Part-Time Community College Faculty Health Insurance Program Fund, with funds continuously available for future program payments. The bill also expresses the Legislature’s intent that all community college districts begin negotiating by January 1, 2030, to offer health insurance benefits to part-time faculty and their eligible dependents.
AB 2121 (BERMAN)
Title: Community Colleges: Current Expense of Education: Exclusions
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee
Position: Support
Summary:
This urgency measure would temporarily allow community college districts (CCDs), for up to five fiscal years after 2025-26 or until certain federal funding is fully restored, to exclude specified local unrestricted expenditures from their “current expense of education.” These expenditures must be from the district’s unrestricted General Fund, capped at a defined amount, and used to sustain student support services previously funded by federal discretionary grants that have been terminated, not renewed, or reduced due to federal action on or after September 10, 2025. CCDs choosing to use this authority would be required to annually certify their eligibility to the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges (CCCCO), and the CCCCO would be required to maintain those certifications and report them as part of an existing reporting requirement.
SB 1262 (Archuleta)
Title: Education Finance: Community Colleges: General Fund Balance
Status: Senate Education Committee
Position: Oppose
Summary:
This bill would place a cap on community college district (CCD) unrestricted General Fund reserves beginning in fiscal year 2027-28.
Specifically, the bill would prohibit a CCD from maintaining an annual unrestricted General Fund ending balance that exceeds 50% of that year’s unrestricted General Fund expenditures, unless the district satisfies all three of the following conditions:
- Participation in the Part-Time Community College Faculty Health Insurance Program;
- Participation in the Part-Time Faculty Office Hours Program; and
- At least 75% of credit instruction hours are taught by full-time faculty.
If a district exceeds the 50% cap and does not meet all three conditions, the amount above the cap would be required to be proportionally distributed to nonsupervisory and nonmanagement employees based on hours worked in the prior fiscal year, as determined through collective bargaining. The bill also includes language intended to prevent districts from circumventing the cap by transferring funds to other accounts if those transfers would cause the receiving fund to exceed 33% of unrestricted General Fund expenditures.
AB 2301 (Soria)
Title: Community Colleges: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program
Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee
Position: Support
Summary:
This bill would require the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to develop a pilot program authorizing up to ten community college districts to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. Eligible districts would be selected based on criteria including equitable regional access, underserved nursing areas, and community poverty, and must continue their associate degree in nursing programs under specified enrollment caps.
AB 2694 (Alvarez)
Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Community Colleges: Statewide Baccalaureate Degree Program
Status: Assembly Higher Education Committee
Position: Support
Summary:
This bill would instead prohibit a community college district baccalaureate degree program from offering a baccalaureate degree program or program curricula substantially similar to a baccalaureate degree program offered by the California State University or the University of California within the geographic region served by the community college district, except where the California State University or the University of California does not enroll students from that geographic region in the same degree pathway or where documented unmet regional workforce needs justify the program.
SB 960 (Cabaldon)
Title: Public Postsecondary Education: Community Colleges: Statewide Baccalaureate Degree Program
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee
Position: Support
Summary:
This bill would revise the rules for California Community Colleges baccalaureate degree programs by prohibiting a community college district from offering a bachelor’s degree or curriculum already offered by the University of California or by a California State University (CSU) campus whose local admission area overlaps the district—unless the CSU program has been impacted for three consecutive years before approval. The bill retains requirements that districts document unmet workforce needs and meet other conditions before offering a baccalaureate degree, and includes details on application, funding, fees, and review processes for these programs.
SB 975 (Ochoa Bogh)
Title: Nursing Schools and Programs: Faculty Members, Directors, and Assistant Directors
Status: Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee
Position: Support
Summary:
This bill would amend the Nursing Practice Act to streamline and clarify how the California Board of Registered Nursing approves individuals to serve as faculty, directors, or assistant directors of approved nursing schools and programs. It would require the board to approve applicants who meet established requirements and, if needed, an approved remediation plan, and expressly allow remediation pathways with mentorship for nursing faculty and leadership at California Community Colleges with nursing programs.
