Cal Grants: nondiscrimination.

The Cal Grant Program establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. This bill would require, commencing with the 2017–18 academic year, each Cal Grant participating institution, as a condition for its voluntary participation in the Cal Grant Program, to certify to the commission in the institution's participation agreement for the Cal Grant Program that the institution shall not subject an applicant, student, or employee of the institution to discrimination on the basis of, among other things, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, and that the institution shall not have, apply for, or receive a waiver by the United States Department of Education from nondiscrimination requirements for the receipt of federal funds, except as provided. The bill would provide that an institution that is ineligible for participation in the Cal Grant Program under these provisions is still eligible for renewal Cal Grant awards for recipients who were enrolled in the ineligible institution during the academic year immediately preceding the academic year for which the institution is ineligible and who choose to renew their Cal Grant awards to attend the ineligible institution, to the same extent as if the recipients attended an eligible institution.