{"data":{"id":"us-ca/gov-99101","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"GOV § 99101","heading":"","body":"The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:\n(a) Children who have even small savings accounts for college are three times more likely to attend, and four times more likely to graduate from, college.\n(b) College enrollment among low-income students has risen but significantly lags behind the enrollment of middle- and high-income students. In 2012, about 51 percent of recent low-income high school graduates and equivalency holders were enrolled in college, while enrollment among middle- and high-income students had risen to nearly 65 percent and 81 percent, respectively.\n(c) Recent pilot programs in California and throughout the nation have proven that low-income people can save if they have incentives and mechanisms encouraging them to do so.","path":["Government Code - GOV","TITLE 19. The Every Kid Counts (EKC) Act [99100. - 99109.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"665f6acb19c8822cb0cb460783d3b18ff31604874c09a0de6fec06e6ce8f2d30","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/gov-99100","next":"us-ca/gov-99102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}