BILL NUMBER: SB 517	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 69564 of the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 517, as introduced, Wyland. Student Opportunity and Access
Program.
   Existing law establishes the Student Opportunity and Access
Program administered by the Student Aid Commission to apportion funds
on a progress payment schedule for the support of projects designed
to increase the accessibility of postsecondary educational
opportunities for specified elementary and secondary school pupils
and community college students. Existing law requires allocation of
funds appropriated for this program to be limited to those consortia
meeting requirements of the program that will provide equal matching
resources from existing or budgeted increases in federal, state,
local, and private funds.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 69564 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   69564.  Allocation of  any  funds appropriated
for purposes of this article shall be limited to those consortia
meeting requirements of this article  who   that
 will provide equal matching resources from existing or
budgeted increases in federal, state, local, and private funds.
 It shall be the goal of the program   The goal
of this program shall be  that the total resources provided by
the Student Opportunity and Access Program shall match state funding
on at least a 1.5 to 1 ratio. Any new projects approved through
expansion of the program shall provide equal matching resources for
the first three years of operation and shall be encouraged to
increase the matching resources to a 1.5 to 1 ratio with the state
grant thereafter.