Title EDC, California Educ. Code

(a) The powers and duties set forth in this chapter are vested in the Director of Consumer Affairs, who may delegate them to a bureau chief, subject to this section. The bureau chief shall work in collaboration with the director. The director is responsible for the implementation…

(a) The bureau shall adopt and shall enforce regulations to implement this chapter pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code). (b) The bureau shall develop and implement an e…

(a) The bureau shall establish an internet website that includes at least all of the following information: (1) An explanation of the bureau’s scope of authority. (2) (A) A directory of approved institutions, and a link, if feasible, to the internet website of each institution. (…

(a) There is within the bureau a 12-member advisory committee. The members of the committee shall be appointed as follows: (1) Three members, who shall have a demonstrated record of advocacy on behalf of consumers, of which the director, the Senate Committee on Rules, and the Spe…

The bureau may conduct workshops to provide applicants and institutions information on application processes, compliance with this chapter, best practices for providing postsecondary educational programs, and other subjects concerning postsecondary education. (Added by Stats. 200…

The bureau may empanel visiting committees to assist in evaluating an institution’s application for an approval to operate. The members of visiting committees shall serve at no expense to the state, except that the bureau may reimburse the members of visiting committees for actua…

(a) Any individual serving on a visiting committee who provides information to the bureau, or its staff, in the course of evaluating any institution, or who testifies in any administrative hearing arising under this chapter, is entitled to a defense and indemnification in any act…

The bureau is subject to Section 27 of the Business and Professions Code. (Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 310, Sec. 6. (AB 48) Effective January 1, 2010. Repealed as of January 1, 2027, pursuant to Section 94950.)

The board of trustees of any library district may, when in their judgment it is deemed advisable, and shall, upon a petition of 50 or more taxpayers and residents of the library district, call an election and submit to the electors of the district, the proposition of whether the …

The bond election shall be called and conducted and the results thereof canvassed, returned, and declared in the manner provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5300) of Part 4 of this division. (Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 36.)

The board of trustees shall set forth in the resolution calling for a bond election the amount and denomination of the bonds, the rate of interest, and the number of years that all or any part of the bonds are to run. (Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 36.)

If it appears that two-thirds of the votes cast at the election were cast in favor of issuing the bonds, the board shall enter the fact upon its minutes and shall certify all the proceedings to the supervising board of supervisors. Thereupon the board of supervisors shall issue t…

The total amount of bonds issued shall not exceed 5 percent of the assessed value of the property of the district, prior to the 1980–81 fiscal year and shall not exceed 1.25 percent of the assessed value of the district beginning after the 1981–82 fiscal year, as shown by the las…

The supervising board of supervisors by an order entered upon its minutes shall prescribe the form of the bonds and of the interest coupons attached thereto, and shall fix the time when the whole or any part of the principal of the bonds shall be payable, which shall not be more …

The bonds shall not bear a greater amount of interest than 6 percent, to be payable annually or semiannually. The bonds shall be sold in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, but for not less than par, and the proceeds of the sale thereof shall be deposited in the co…

The board of supervisors of each county in which any part of the district is situated, at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, shall levy a tax for that year upon the taxable property in the district, at the equalized assessed value thereof for that year, for…

All money levied, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the library district, and shall be used for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds, and for no other purpose. The principal and interest on the bonds shall be paid by the county …

Whenever any bonds issued under this article remain unsold for the period of six months after having been offered for sale in the manner prescribed by the supervising board of supervisors, the board of trustees of the library district for or on account of which the bonds were iss…

Upon receiving the petition, signed by a majority of the members of the board of trustees, the supervising board of supervisors shall fix a time for hearing the petition, which shall be not more than 30 days thereafter, and shall cause a notice, stating the time and place of hear…

At the time and place designated in the notice for hearing the petition, or at any subsequent time to which the hearing is postponed, the supervising board of supervisors shall hear any reasons that are submitted for or against the granting of the petition, and if they deem it fo…

The Legislature hereby declares its intent in enacting this article to require that specified persons, including school teachers, school administrators, school aides, school playground workers, and school bus drivers, report missing children to a law enforcement agency in a timel…

Unless otherwise provided by county ordinance, any school warrant not presented to the county treasurer within six months after it was issued is void and any order issued by the governing board of a community college district, but not approved by the county superintendent of scho…

Any warrant drawn on the funds of a district retirement system and issued to the claimant thereof but not presented for payment to the county treasurer within two years after it was issued is void and the proceeds of such warrants shall revert to and become a part of the contribu…

The county superintendent of schools shall keep a record of all orders, or warrants which have become void. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) The bureau shall adopt by regulation minimum operating standards for an institution that shall reasonably ensure that all of the following occur: (1) The content of each educational program can achieve its stated objective. (2) The institution maintains specific written stand…

(a) If an institution that has not been accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education seeks to offer one or more degree programs, the institution shall satisfy the following requirements in order to be issued a provisional approval to…

(a) When an institution offering at least one degree program has ceased to be accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, the institution shall notify the bureau immediately, but no more than seven days after it ceases to be accred…

Except as exempted in Article 4 (commencing with Section 94874) or in compliance with the transition provisions in Article 2 (commencing with Section 94802), a person shall not open, conduct, or do business as a private postsecondary educational institution in this state without …

An approval to operate shall be granted only after an applicant has presented sufficient evidence to the bureau, and the bureau has independently verified the information provided by the applicant through site visits or other methods deemed appropriate by the bureau, that the app…

(a) The bureau shall adopt by regulation both of the following: (1) The process and procedures whereby an institution seeking approval to operate may apply for and obtain an approval to operate. (2) The process and procedures governing the bureau’s approval and denial of applicat…

Except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 94890, an approval to operate shall be for a term of five years. (Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 552, Sec. 8. (SB 802) Effective January 1, 2022. Repealed as of January 1, 2027, pursuant to Section 94950.)

(a) (1) The bureau shall grant an institution that is accredited an approval to operate by means of its accreditation. (2) The bureau shall adopt by regulation the process and procedures whereby an institution that is accredited may apply for and obtain an approval by means of th…

(a) The bureau shall adopt by regulation the process and procedures whereby an institution may obtain a renewal of an approval to operate. (b) To be granted a renewal of an approval to operate, the institution shall demonstrate its continued capacity to meet the minimum operating…

If an agency of this state other than the bureau or of the federal government provides an approval to offer an educational program and the institution already has a valid approval to operate issued by the bureau, that agency’s educational program approval may satisfy the requirem…

(a) A school district is encouraged to collaborate with outside consultants, including law enforcement, with expertise in sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education in order to create a school safety plan to address the threat of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. (b) A…

(a) The governing board of a school district and the governing body of a charter school shall work with their schools that maintain any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to identify the most appropriate methods of informing parents and guardians of pupils in those grades of human tra…

When any order against the funds of a community college district is presented to the county superintendent of schools, and the order constitutes a valid claim against the funds of the district, and moneys are not available in the funds of the district from which to pay the order,…

The county superintendent of schools shall number and date the registered order, and shall transmit the registered order to the governing board of the community college district that drew the order. The governing board shall deliver the registered order to the payee or to the ord…

Whenever moneys are available for the payment of the registered order, the county superintendent of schools shall give notice, in a newspaper published in the county, or if there is no newspaper, by written notice posted at the courthouse, stating that he or she is ready to appro…

At the time of giving the notice the county superintendent of schools shall set aside in the funds of each district for a period of 60 days the amount necessary for the payment of the registered orders of the district listed in the notice. If any registered order is not presented…

The county superintendent of schools shall approve the registered orders of each district, and sign them as requisitions on the county auditor, in the order of their presentation. The county superintendent shall enter on each the amount of interest due and the total amount, inclu…

As an alternative to the method provided in Section 85284, when any corporation, firm, or person presents two or more registered orders for payment at the same time, registered on the same date, and issued against the funds of the same district, the registered orders may be appro…

The special interest requisition shall bear upon its face substantially the following notation: “In full payment of interest due on warrants numbered ____ to ____, inclusive, of the ____ Community College District.” (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The special interest requisition shall be numbered by the county superintendent of schools and county auditor, being given the number immediately succeeding the number assigned to the last of the requisitions and warrants referred to in Section 85285. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch.…

The county superintendent of schools shall report to the county treasurer and the county auditor within 10 days after the end of each month the amount of the interest computed pursuant to this article. The report shall show each district for which interest has been computed, the …

If an institution intends to make a substantive change to its approval to operate, the institution shall receive prior authorization from the bureau. Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 94896, if the institution makes the substantive change without prior bureau autho…