One Bill That Got Away (from our attention last month)

As Governor Brown was signing or vetoing bills last month, we tried on this blog to point to those affecting UC.  However, one – AB 1955 – got away from us and escaped our attention.  It deals with the aftermath of the UC-Davis pepper spray incident.  As is often the case, while the bill mandates CSU to do something, it just "requests" the Regents to do the same because of UC’s constitutional status.  Gov. Brown signed this bill which you can read below:

AB 1955, as introduced, Block. Public postsecondary education: campus law enforcement agency and student liaison.

Existing law prohibits the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, and the governing board of a community college district from making or enforcing a rule subjecting a student to disciplinary sanction solely on the basis of conduct that is speech or other communication that is protected by specified provisions of the United States Constitution and the California Constitution.

This bill would require, for purposes of promoting peaceful campus demonstrations, the Trustees of the California State University to designate an individual at each campus of the California State University to serve as a liaison between campus law enforcement agencies and students exercising rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and California Constitution. The bill would request that the Regents of the University of California designate an individual at each campus of the University of California to serve as a liaison between campus law enforcement agencies and students exercising rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the California Constitution.

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

SECTION 1. Section 66303 is added to the Education Code, to read:

66303. For purposes of promoting peaceful campus demonstrations, the Trustees of the California State University shall designate an individual at each campus of the California State University to serve as a liaison between campus law enforcement agencies and students exercising rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the California Constitution. The Regents of the University of California are requested to designate an individual at each campus of the University of California to serve as a liaison between campus law enforcement agencies and students exercising rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and California Constitution.

Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1951-2000/ab_1955_bill_20120223_introduced.html

A complete list of education-related bills from the last session, most of which deal with K-12 and many of which were not enacted or were vetoed, is at:

http://www.edsource.org/today/2012/2011-12-legislative-bills-come-due

Why did we miss this bill?  Maybe it was too ordinary: