Public postsecondary education: campus safety: hate crime: surveys.

(1) Existing law establishes 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, as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in the state. The Donahoe Higher Education Act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the regents, by appropriate resolution, make it applicable. This bill, the Justice for Josiah Lawson Act, would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Chancellor of the California State University, and request the President of the University of California, to (A) develop survey questions on campus climate, as defined, related to hate crimes to be submitted to the United States Secretary of Education for review and approval to be incorporated into a specified online survey tool for campus safety, and (B) require campuses that already have formulated and implemented a campus climate survey before January 1, 2024, to meet on or before December 31, 2024, and at least once every 5 years thereafter, to review and update the survey with student participation and include hate crime-specific questions in the survey with student participation in the development of survey questions. The bill would require the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and request the University of California, to submit a report on the results of the surveys to the Assembly Committee on Higher Education and the Senate Committee on Education beginning one year after the date on which the online survey is made available by the United States Secretary of Education and every 2 years thereafter. The bill would require the California Community Colleges's and the California State University's reports to be posted on the internet website of each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University and on the internet website maintained by the California College Guidance Initiative and the California State University's internet website, as provided, and would request the University of California's report to be posted on the internet website of each campus of the University of California and on the University of California's internet website. By imposing new duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.