Student financial aid: information.

(1) Existing law establishes the Cal Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under the program for participating students attending qualifying institutions. As a condition for participation in the program, existing law requires each Cal Grant participating institution to annually report specified information to the commission, which the commission is required to provide on its Internet Web site in a searchable database. This bill would include links to specified Internet Web sites providing data relating to college affordability and related topics, posted in a conspicuous location, in the information that the commission is required to provide on its Internet Web site. (2) Existing law, the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, which is repealed pursuant to its own provisions on January 1, 2015, provides, among other things, for student protections and regulatory oversight of private postsecondary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 requires the bureau, among other duties, to establish an Internet Web site that includes specified information. This bill would require the bureau to post, in a conspicuous location on its Internet Web site, links to specified Internet Web sites providing data relating to college affordability and related topics. These provisions concerning the bureau's Internet Web site would become operative only if an act that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2015, delays or eliminates the January 1, 2015, repeal date of the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.