BILL NUMBER: SB 384	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 7, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Gaines and DeSaulnier
    (   Coauthor:  
Assembly Member   Bonilla  )


                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to amend Section 70010.5 of the Education Code, relating to
scholarships, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 384, as amended, Gaines. California Memorial Scholarship
Program.
   Existing law establishes the California Memorial Scholarship
Program, administered by the Scholarshare Investment Board and funded
by the California Memorial Scholarship Fund. Existing law states
that the purpose of the program is to provide scholarships for
surviving dependents of California residents killed as a result of
injuries sustained during the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001. Existing law further provides that these scholarships shall be
used to defray the costs incurred by participants in the program at
institutions of higher education.
   Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation and
Government Claims Board to identify all persons who are eligible for
scholarships under the program and to notify them of their
eligibility no later than July 1, 2003. Existing law requires
eligible persons to inform the board in a timely manner of their
decision on whether to participate in the program and requires
eligible persons who are to become participants in the program to
execute agreements no later than July 1, 2005.
   This bill would instead require the board to identify all persons
who are eligible for scholarships under the program and to notify
them of their eligibility no later than July 1, 2014. The bill would
also require that eligible persons who are to become participants in
the program execute participation agreements no later than July 1,
2015.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 70010.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   70010.5.  (a) The California Victim Compensation and Government
Claims Board shall identify all persons who are eligible for
scholarships under the program. The California Victim Compensation
and Government Claims Board shall notify these persons or, in the
case of minors, the parents or guardians of these persons, of their
eligibility for scholarships under the program. This notification
shall be in  writing,   writing  and shall
be received by all of the appropriate persons no later than July 1,
2014.
   (b) Eligible persons, or in the case of minors, the parents or
guardians of these persons, shall inform the board of their decision
on whether to participate in the program in a timely manner. Eligible
persons, or in the case of minors, the parents or guardians of these
persons, who are to become participants in the program shall execute
agreements pursuant to Section 70011 no later than July 1, 2015.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   Because many eligible persons are not currently receiving
scholarships under the program, and because of the higher education
expenses, prospective or ongoing, of the dependents of California
residents who were killed as a result of injuries sustained during
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.