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Bills We Support

Below you will find a list of bills that HOPE is supporting for the 2008 Legislation cycle. For more information, please see our guidelines. 

HOPE's Education Goals

  • Increased graduation rates from colleges and universities among Latinas;
  • Increased Latina transfer rates from community colleges to four-year institutions.

2008 EDUCATION BILLS (updated 7/5/08)

BILL

 AUTHOR TITLE SUMMARY STATUS
AB 2648 Speaker Bass Multiple Pathways Defines a "Multiple Pathway" Program and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a five year action plan.       In the Senate Appropriations Committee
SB 890 Scott Early College Commitment Program Establishes a program to ensure early notification and early commitment of college opportunities for pupils in middle school and high school and their families. In the Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 1251 Steinberg School Accountability: API: Graduation Rates Adds partial credit for pupils who graduate high school in 5 or 6 years to the calculation of each school's Academic Performance Index (API) and full credit for pupils with disabilities.

In the Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 1301 Cedillo    California Dream Act Requests the UC and requires the CSU and Community Colleges to enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition per AB 540 to be eligible to receive institutional financial aid awards.

Passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee to Asm Floor
AB 2083 Nunez  California Dream Act Requests the UC and requires the CSU and Community Colleges to enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition per AB 540 to be eligible to receive institutional financial aid awards. Held in Approps Suspense File
SB 1425 Steinberg and Simitian Education Data and Information Act of 2008 Allow access of California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) by local education agencies. In the Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 1532 Steinberg High School Graduation Establishes a statewide target graduation rate of 90%, and specify that a school or local educational agency shows adequate yearly progress if it achieves the target rate or shows every 2 years at least a 10% reduction in the difference. Held in Approps Suspense File
SB 1585 Padilla Community Colleges Establishes a voluntary 5 year pilot program to increase the rate of student transfer to 4 year institutions. In the Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 1629 Steinberg State Preschool Programs Establishes the Early Learning Quality Improvement System to develop a framework for improving program quality and a graduated funding framework that identifies necessary resources. In the Assembly Appropriations Committee - hearing set for 7/9
AB 531 Salas School Curriculum Include the case of Mendez v. Westminster, which ended school segregation in California, in the history-social-science framework. In the Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 1177 Solorio English Language Learners Develop the Accelerated English Acquisition & Literacy Pilot Program Held under submission

HOPE's Health Goal

  • Increased access to quality health care for Latinas

2008 Health Bill 

BILL AUTHOR TITLE SUMMARY STATUS
SB 1522 Steinberg Health Insurance Organizes the individual insurance market and makes it understandableforconsumers. In the Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 1213 Ducheny Mobile Health Care Units Eliminates requirements for mobile health care units to report to the Dept. of Pub Health and local authorities prior to providing services Passed Assembly Appropriations Committee to Consent Calendar
AB 2010 DeSaulnier Affiliate Health Clinics Exempts affiliate clinics from provisional licensure requirements whose primary care clinic has met all requirements defined under law. Enrolled to Governor
AB 1511 Leno Stronger Families for California Act (2 year) Establishes a continuing public education program within the State Dept. of public Health with the primary goal of decreasing teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases through a public education program. In Senate Approps Com - held under submission

 

HOPE's Economic Empowerment Goal

  • Increased prosperity for Latinas

2008 Bill 

 

BILL AUTHOR TITLE SUMMARY STATUS
SB 1341 Padilla CalWORKs Allows CalWORKs applicants to maintain a programeligibilityif  they have a savings account that is restricted to use for costs associated with securing permanent rental housing Passed Asm Approps to Asm Floor
AB 2301 Garcia Residential Mortgages Lender to provide borrowers their credit score and average annual percentage rate that qualified borrowers with a similar credit score received. In Assembly

 

HOPE's Civic Participation Goal

  • Increased voter registration and participation among Latinas

2008 Bills 

BILL AUTHOR TITLE SUMMARY STATUS
AB 2371 Coto Voter Registration Automatically registers a person to vote when he or she applied for a driver's license of state identification card or files a tax return unless that person opts-out. 5/22 held in suspense, Asm Approps Com
AB 1819 Price Voter Registration Allows a person to register to vote once he or she is 16 years old if he or she otherwise meets all eligibility requirements In the Senate Appropriations Committee