Public postsecondary education: University of California, Merced: medical education.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not specify the exact criteria or details of the physician retention programs medical residents can apply for.

Medical Education Funding for UC Merced

This law provides $15 million annually starting July 1, 2026, to the University of California, Merced Medical Education Collaborative from state funds and requires them to assist medical residents in applying for physician retention programs.

What This Bill Does

• Appropriates $15 million each year starting July 1, 2026, from the General Fund to the Regents of the University of California for allocation to the University of California, Merced Medical Education Collaborative.
• Requires UC Merced Medical Education Collaborative to develop a program to assist medical residents in applying for physician retention programs.

Who It Names or Affects

• University of California, Merced Medical Education Collaborative
• Medical residents at UC Merced

Terms To Know

Regents of the University of California

The board that runs the University of California system.

Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

A program that provides extra learning time for students in kindergarten through sixth grade.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how the $15 million will be used beyond helping medical residents.
• Future changes to school tutoring programs are only planned and not yet made into law.

Official Summary Text

AB 730, as amended, Arambula.
Expanded Learning Opportunities Program: supplementary academic instruction and high-impact tutoring.
Public postsecondary education: University of California, Merced: medical education.
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The University of California provides instruction and performs research at the 10 campuses it operates and maintains in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
The bill would, on or before July 1, 2026, and each July 1 thereafter, appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Regents of the University of California for allocation to the University of
California, Merced, Medical Education Collaborative, as defined. The bill would require the University of California, Merced, Medical Education Collaborative, as a condition of receiving the appropriation, to develop a program, consistent with its mission, and in conjunction with the health facilities of its medical residency programs, to identify eligible medical residents and to assist those medical residents in applying for physician retention programs, as specified.
Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program and requires school districts and eligible charter schools, as a condition of receipt of specified program funds, to offer to all pupils in classroom-based instructional programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, access to expanded learning opportunity programs, as described. Existing law requires those local educational agencies, as a condition of receipt of those specified funds, to provide access to any pupil whose parent or guardian requests their placement in a program.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would authorize school districts and eligible charter schools to use Expanded Learning Opportunities Program funding to fund supplementary academic instruction and high-impact tutoring to pupils under the
direction of a certificated employee at their schoolsite.

Current Bill Text

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