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. For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context
otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
(a) "Board of Governors" means the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges.
(b) "Chancellor" means the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges.
(c) "Community-based organizations" means public nonprofit benefit
corporations of demonstrated effectiveness approved by the
superintendent to provide educational services to eligible legalized
persons.
(d) "Department" means the State Department of Education.
(e) "Educational outreach activities" means:
(1) Information transmitted to temporary resident aliens regarding
the requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1986 (8
U.S.C. Secs. 1160, 1161, and 1255a), as those requirements existed on
the effective date of this chapter, relating to adjustment of
resident status, sources of assistance to those aliens obtaining
adjustment of resident status, including educational, informational,
and referral services, and the rights and responsibilities of those
aliens and aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, the
identification of health, employment, and social services, and the
importance of identifying oneself as a temporary resident alien to
service providers. It does not include client counseling or any other
service that would assume responsibility of the alien's application
for the adjustment of resident status.
(2) Information provided to newly legalized persons and other
immigrants regarding educational opportunities available to them.
(f) "Immigrant" means a person who is a citizen of a country other
than the United States and is eligible for education services in
California or a naturalized United States citizen who is now residing
in California.
(g) "Newly legalized person" means an alien who has been granted
lawful temporary resident status under Sections 1160, 1161, and 1255a
of Title 8 of the United States Code, as those sections exist on the
effective date of this chapter. In addition, it means a person who
has, after being granted lawful temporary resident status, obtained
permanent resident or citizenship status.
(h) "Services provider" means any community-based organization,
school district maintaining adult education programs, or community
college that has been approved by the superintendent in the 1991-92
fiscal year as eligible to provide educational services to newly
legalized persons pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 23.50 of the
Budget Act of 1991.
(i) "SLIAG" means the State Legalization Impact-Assistance Grants
as set forth in Section 204 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act
of 1986, (Sec. 204, P.L. 99-603), as it exists on the effective date
of this chapter.
(j) "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.