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 Date Published: 02/21/2025 09:00 PM

AB1446:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1446

Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia

February 21, 2025

 An act to amend Section 78015 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1446, as introduced, Garcia.
 Community colleges: job market study.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to provide instruction at the campuses they operate and maintain. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district, before establishing a vocational or occupational training program, to conduct a job market study of the labor market area, as specified. 

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in the latter provision.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 78015 of the Education Code is amended to read:

78015.

 (a) (1) The governing board of a community college district, prior to before establishing a vocational or occupational training program, shall conduct a job market study of the labor market area, as those terms are defined in Section 52301.5, in which it proposes to establish the program. The study shall use the State-Local Cooperative Labor Market Information Program established in Section 10533 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, or if this program is not available in the labor market area, other available sources of labor market information. The study shall include a
 California Occupational Information System supply analysis of existing vocational and occupational education or training programs for adults maintained by high schools, community colleges, and private postsecondary schools educational institutions in the area to ensure that the anticipated employment demand for students in the proposed programs justifies the establishment of the proposed courses of instruction.

(2) The governing board of the community college district shall make copies of each job market study available to the public.

(b) Subsequent to After
 completing the study required by this section and prior to
 before
 establishing the program, the governing board of the community college district shall determine whether or not the study justifies the proposed vocational education program.

(c) If the governing board of the community college district determines that the job market study justifies the initiation of the proposed program, it shall determine, by resolution, whether the program shall be offered through the district’s own facilities or through a contract with an approved private postsecondary school educational institution pursuant to Section 8092.