The California Community Colleges Student Success and Support Program Act of 2012.

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. Existing law, known as the Seymour-Campbell Matriculation Act of 1986, defines "matriculation" as a process that brings a college and a student who enrolls for credit into an agreement for the purpose of realizing the student's educational objectives. The act specifies the matriculation services that community colleges are required to provide, including the processing of the application for admission, orientation and preorientation services, assessment and counseling upon enrollment, and postenrollment evaluation of a student's progress. This bill would establish the California Community Colleges Student Success and Support Program Act of 2012 to provide the necessary faculty counseling and instructional infrastructure at the California Community Colleges to ensure that students have the necessary access to support services and classroom instructors to increase their opportunities for success. The bill would require the board of governors each fiscal year to develop a plan for supporting the goals of the act and another related act that is consistent with the needs of individual districts and statewide policies regarding student success. The bill would require the board of governors to incorporate those elements that contribute to increasing student success as part of the implementation of another related act, and to ensure that submitted budget requests propose sufficient funding to support both this act and the related act.