Bill > AB148

This bill is a comprehensive higher education budget trailer bill that makes several key changes to California's community college and higher education systems. It introduces provisions related to basic needs services, scholarship programs, textbook costs, and financial support for students. Specifically, the bill requires community college campuses to provide classified employees access to food pantry services for two fiscal years, modifies the Middle Class Scholarship Program by allowing smaller awards without recalculation and requiring institutional participation agreements, expands the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program to include professional development for open educational resources, adjusts community college district apportionment payments, appropriates funds from the Public School System Stabilization Account, limits administrative costs for Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) programs, and provides emergency financial assistance grants for California Dream Act application (CADAA) filers. The bill also includes technical amendments and provisions for potential interactions with other pending legislation, and it is designed to take effect immediately as a budget-related measure to support higher education funding and student services in California.

Budget and Finance

Budget (Assembly)

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