Student financial aid: student service programs.

Under existing law, the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state are the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes various student financial aid programs, including the California Work-Study Program, which provides eligible college and university students with the opportunity to earn money to help defray their educational costs, while gaining experience in educationally beneficial or career-related employment. This bill would authorize the trustees, the board of governors, and the regents to develop, for each of their respective campuses, a student service program, as specified, for students with financial need who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under a certain provision of law. The bill would establish that personal information of a student collected or obtained for the student service program is confidential, shall not be open to the public for inspection or disclosed without the written consent of the student, and shall only be collected, used, and retained to determine a student's eligibility for the program or to administer the program, and would prohibit disclosure of that personal information to any other person, except as provided. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. The California Constitution requires local agencies, for the purpose of ensuring public access to the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies, to comply with a statutory enactment that amends or enacts laws relating to public records or open meetings and contains findings demonstrating that the enactment furthers the constitutional requirements relating to this purpose. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.