California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.

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 requires an institution to annually report to the bureau specified information regarding completion rates and license examination passage rates, among other things, and to publish that information on its School Performance Fact Sheet. The act defines numerous terms for purposes of this reporting requirement, including defining "graduates" to mean students who complete a program within 100% of the published program length. This bill would recharacterize "graduates" as "on-time graduates" for purposes of a completion rate calculation, and would redefine the term "graduate" for other purposes to mean an individual who has been awarded a degree or diploma.