Community colleges: student assessments.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The Seymour-Campbell Matriculation Act of 1986, requires, contingent on the appropriation of funds for the purposes of the act, matriculation services to be made available by the colleges. The act requires those services to include assessment and counseling upon enrollment, including administration of assessment instruments to determine student competency in computational and language skills. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide incentives for students at the California Community Colleges to enroll, during the first year of college, in remedial courses that are deemed necessary based on the results of an assessment performed by the California Community Colleges.