CaliforniaCommunity colleges: audits: reports.
What it does
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt criteria and standards for periodic assessment of the fiscal condition of community college districts. In so doing, existing law requires the board of governors to develop, by regulation, appropriate procedures and actions for community college districts that fail to achieve fiscal stability or that fail to comply with the board of governors' recommendations, and to report to the chairs of the educational policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature, the Director of Finance, and the Governor, related corrective actions taken by the community college district and related actions taken against the community college district.
More detail
This bill would instead require the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to report the above-described information, as needed, and to additionally report the information to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Beginning in the 2027–28 fiscal year, the bill would also require any information reported to be included with the below-described report related to community college district audits.
Existing law requires the board of governors to annually submit a report to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee on the number and nature of audit exceptions and estimated amount of funds involved in the exceptions, a list of community college districts that failed to file their audits under existing law, and the actions taken by the State Department of Education to eliminate audit exceptions and comply with management improvement recommendations.
This bill would revise the contents of the report to instead include actions taken by the chancellor's office to eliminate audit exceptions and comply with management improvement recommendations. The bill would instead require the chancellor's office to report that information, and to additionally report that information to the educational policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature, the Director of Finance, and the Governor. Beginning in the 2027–28 fiscal year, the bill would also require the report to include any of the above-described information related to corrective actions taken by, and actions taken against, a community college district.
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History
- 2026
- Sep 27Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 644, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 27Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Aug 21Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 18Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5514.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Major
- Vote recorded Unfinished Business SB308 Seyarto et al. Concurrence. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 13In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Vote recorded SB 308 Seyarto Senate Third Reading By Patel. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 13Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 6147.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Jun 29Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jun 25Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Jun 24From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 10From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jun 10Coauthors revised.
- Jun 9
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- May 11From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.Major
- May 4Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.Minor
- Jan 26In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Vote recorded Consent Calendar 2nd. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 26Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3286.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- Jan 21Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.Minor
- Jan 20From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.Minor
- Jan 15Set for hearing January 20.
- Jan 14From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3224.) (January 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 6Set for hearing January 14.
- Jan 5From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.Major
- 2025
- Apr 1April 9 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Mar 28Set for hearing April 9.
- Feb 19Referred to Com. on ED.Minor
- Feb 11From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
- Feb 10Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced