California 2013 2013-2014 Regular Session

California Senate Bill SB1022 Introduced / Bill

Filed 02/14/2014

 BILL NUMBER: SB 1022INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Huff FEBRUARY 14, 2014 An act to add Section 66014.3 to the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1022, as introduced, Huff. Public postsecondary education: labor market outcome information. Existing law establishes the California State University and the University of California as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Instruction is provided to students at the 25 institutions constituting the California State University and the 10 institutions constituting the University of California. This bill would require the California State University, and request the University of California, to publicly provide labor market outcome information relating to their graduates. The information required by the bill would include, but not necessarily be limited to, salary data and the distribution of employers, classified by industry. The bill would specify requirements for presentation of this data, including the use of easily understood labor market measures, aggregation of the data to the systemwide level and disaggregation to the campus level and by particular areas of study, time frames after graduation for the presentation of the data in each labor market outcome category, and adherence to pertinent state and federal privacy laws. The bill would require that this information be made publicly available through publication on the Internet Web sites of the respective segments no later than June 1, 2016, and updated no later than June 1 of each year thereafter. 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 66014.3 is added to the Education Code, to read: 66014.3. (a) The California State University shall, and the University of California is requested to, publicly provide labor market outcome information relating to their graduates. This information shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, salary data and the distribution of employers, classified by industry. (b) The information required by this section shall be provided using data including, but not necessarily limited to, information provided by the Employment Development Department pursuant to Section 1095 of the Unemployment Insurance Code and the segments' own databases. The information shall be presented in accordance with all of the following requirements: (1) The data shall be presented in terms of easily understood labor market measures, such as median annual wage. (2) The data shall be aggregated to the systemwide level as well as disaggregated to the campus level and by particular areas of study. (3) Labor market outcome data for each category shall, at a minimum, provide data relating to graduates one or two years, and five years, after their graduation. (4) In the collection and publication of data pursuant to this section, the segments shall adhere to all pertinent state and federal privacy laws. (c) The information required by this section shall be made publicly available through publication on the Internet Web sites of the respective segments no later than June 1, 2016, and shall be updated no later than June 1 of each year thereafter.