California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009: exemptions.

Existing law, the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, provides, among other things, for student protections and regulatory oversight of private postsecondary schools in the state. The act is enforced by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act exempts specified institutions from its provisions. This bill would exempt from the act flight instruction providers or programs that provide flight instruction pursuant to Federal Aviation Administration regulations and meet specified criteria. The act prohibits the bureau, for the period of July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2011, inclusive, from enforcing the act against institutions engaged in flight instruction and aircraft maintenance education, as specified, if those institutions notify the bureau that they are in operation during that time period. This bill would repeal that provision. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.