AB 386 (Ruskin) requires electronic versions of non-printed instructional materials to be compatible with audiovisual captioning software for students with hearing impairments. This measure expands upon current law in specifying circumstances when publishers must provide electronic versions of non-printed instructional materials for Braille translation or speech synthesis software. 


AB 669 (Fong) ensures that foster youth 19 years of age and younger who were wards of the State or who were served by California's child welfare system may be classified as residents for the purposes of in-state tuition.

AB 381 (Block), legislation allowing part-time faculty within a wall-to-wall union to vote separately on participation in the State Disability Insurance (SDI) program.

AB 947 (Brownley) authorizes a community college district to charge an additional fee in addition to the nonresident tuition fee to nonresident students. The additional fee may be as high as the amount that was expended by the district for capital outlay in the preceding fiscal year divided by the total full-time equivalent students of the district in the preceding year, so long as the fee does not exceed 50% of the nonresident tuition fee.

SB 48 (Alquist) requires that publishers of textbooks offered for sale at public postsecondary institutions of education make them available in electronic format by January 1, 2020. 


SB 361 (Runner) will  grant  priority  for registration to veterans  within two years of leaving active duty.