Existing law, the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, provides that the purpose of the act is to increase California community college student access and success by providing effective core matriculation services of orientation, assessment and placement, counseling, and other education planning services, and academic interventions. The act specifies the responsibilities of students and institutions in entering into the matriculation process, and requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to develop a formula for allocating funding for the Student Success and Support Program that would be implemented under the act. The act provides that, in the 2012–13 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, it is operative only if funds are specifically appropriated for its purposes.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision that makes the act’s operation contingent on a specific appropriation for its purposes.