BILL NUMBER: AB 2216INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Muratsuchi FEBRUARY 20, 2014 An act relating to career technical education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2216, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Career technical education: programs. Existing law establishes various career technical education programs, including, but not limited to, regional occupational centers or programs, linked learning, partnership academies, and career pathways programs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would promote and support high quality career technical education, including, but not limited to, regional occupational centers or programs, linked learning, partnership academies, and career pathway programs, to help prepare and engage pupils for transition to higher education and the workforce. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would promote and support high quality career technical education, including, but not limited to, regional occupational centers or programs, linked learning, partnership academies, and career pathway programs, to help prepare and engage pupils for transition to higher education and the workforce.