Postsecondary education.

(1) Existing law requires the governing board of every community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, and, if appropriate resolutions are adopted, the Regents of the University of California and the Board of Directors of the College of the Law, San Francisco to adopt regulations providing for the withholding of institutional services from students or former students who have been notified in writing, as specified, that they are in default on a loan or loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program. Existing law requires the Student Aid Commission to give notice of the default to all institutions through which the individual acquired the loan or loans. This bill would remove the requirement on the commission to give notice of the default to those institutions. (2) Existing law establishes various provisions relating to the Online Education Initiative Consortium, defined as the efforts to expand the delivery of community college courses through technology, as provided. This bill would rename "the Online Education Initiative Consortium" as "the California Virtual Campus" in these provisions. (3) Existing law establishes the Cash for College Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and authorizes the commission to allocate funds for support of local Cash for College projects designed to accomplish prescribed goals relating to encouraging application for student financial aid. Existing law establishes the Cash for College Fund and continuously appropriates certain moneys in that fund for purposes of the program. Existing law requires the commission to allocate funds to regional coordinating organizations, as defined, to plan, coordinate, or conduct Cash for College workshop series within specific regions in the state. This bill would specify that an organization that is not part of a regional coordinating organization, but has a written partnership agreement with the commission or a regional coordinating organization, may offer free local and regional workshops through the Cash for College Program. By expanding the purposes for which continuously appropriated funds may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. (4) Existing law establishes the Assumption Program of Loans for Education, administered by the commission, under which any person enrolled in a participating institution of postsecondary education, or any person who agrees to participate in a teacher trainee or teacher internship program, is eligible to enter into an agreement for loan assumption, to be redeemed pursuant to a prescribed procedure upon becoming employed as a teacher if the teacher satisfies certain conditions. Existing law requires the commission to report annually to the Legislature specified information regarding the program's participants, on the basis of sex, age, and ethnicity. This bill would repeal this reporting requirement. (5) Existing law establishes the Graduate Assumption Program of Loans for Education, administered by the commission, under which any person enrolled in a participating institution of postsecondary education who meets certain requirements is eligible to enter into an agreement for loan assumption, as provided, to be redeemed pursuant to a prescribed procedure upon becoming employed at one or more accredited California colleges or universities after obtaining a graduate degree. Existing law requires the commission to report annually to the Legislature on the program, as specified. This bill would repeal this reporting requirement. (6) Existing law establishes the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education, administered by the commission, whereby eligible postsecondary education students may enter into loan repayment agreements with the commission, with specified terms, in exchange for serving as nursing faculty in a registered nursing program at an accredited California college or university. Existing law requires the commission to report annually to the Legislature on the program, as specified. This bill would repeal this reporting requirement. (7) Existing law establishes the California State University (CSU) under the administration of the Trustees of the CSU. Existing law authorizes, upon a favorable vote of 23 of the students voting in a CSU campus election, as provided, the trustees to require each student attending the campus to pay a building and operating fee not to exceed $40 per academic year for the purpose of financing, operating, and constructing a student body center. Existing law authorizes the chief fiscal officer of the CSU campus to expend funds collected from this fee for this purpose only upon the submission of an appropriate claim schedule by an elected representative of the student body or that elected representative's appointee. This bill instead would authorize the chief fiscal officer of the CSU campus to expend the funds collected from the fee when an appropriate claim schedule is approved.