BILL NUMBER: SB 1153INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Calderon FEBRUARY 21, 2012 An act to amend Section 69648 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1153, as introduced, Calderon. Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services: student eligibility. Existing law establishes the Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services to encourage local community colleges to establish and implement programs to identify those students affected by language, social, and economic handicaps, and to assist those students to achieve their educational objectives and goals, including, but not necessarily limited to, obtaining job skills, occupational certificates, or associate degrees, and transferring to four-year institutions. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to establish extended opportunity programs and services and receive state funding if specified conditions are met. Existing law requires a student to remain eligible for extended opportunity programs or services until he or she has completed consecutively 6 semester terms or 9 quarter terms of enrollment. This bill would require a student to remain eligible for extended opportunity programs or services until he or she completes 8 semester terms or 12 quarter terms of enrollment. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 69648 of the Education Code is amended to read: 69648. By January 1, 1986, the board shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement this article, including rules and regulations which do all of the following: (a) (1) Prescribe the procedure by which a district shall identify a student eligible for extended opportunity programs or services on the basis of the student's language, social, or economic disadvantages. (2) A student shall remain eligible for extended opportunity programs or services until he or she completes eight semester terms or 12 quarter terms of enrollment. (b) Establish minimum standards for the establishment and conduct of extended opportunity programs and services. The standards may include, but shall not be limited to, guidelines for all of the following: (1) The provision of staffing and program management. (2) The establishment of a documentation and data collection system. (3) The establishment of an EOPS advisory committee. (4) The provision of recruitment and outreach services. (5) The provision of cognitive and noncognitive assessment, advising, and orientation services. (6) The provision of college registration. (7) The provision of basic skills instruction, seminars, and tutorial assistance. (8) The provision of counseling and retention services. (9) The provision of transfer services. (10) The provision of direct aid. (11) The establishment of objectives to achieve the goals specified in Section 69640, and objectives to be applied in implementing extended opportunity programs and services. (c) Subject to approval of the chancellor, establish procedures for the review and evaluation of the districts' extended opportunity programs and services. (d) Require the submission of the reports by districts that will permit the evaluation of the program and services offered.