CaliforniaCommunity colleges: California College Promise: fee waiver eligibility.
What it does
Existing law establishes the California College Promise, under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to provide funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to each community college meeting prescribed requirements. Existing law authorizes a community college to use that funding to waive some or all of the fees for 2 academic years for first-time community college students and returning community college students, as defined, who are enrolled in 12 or more semester units or the equivalent, or less for students certified as "full time," as specified, and who complete and submit either a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or a California Dream Act application, except that a student who has previously earned a degree or certificate from a postsecondary educational institution is not eligible for this fee waiver.
More detail
This bill would prohibit a certificate awarded to a student by a postsecondary educational institution as part of a course sequence leading to an associate degree from making the student ineligible for that fee waiver.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Jun 29Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 32, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Jun 29Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Jun 24Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.To Governor
- Jun 18In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.Minor
- Vote recorded Consent Calendar 2nd AB1920 Mark González et al. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 18Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4860.).Passed Senate
- Jun 16Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jun 15From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jun 4From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jun 3
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- May 20Referred to Com. on ED.Minor
- May 12In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- May 11Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4998.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 1920 Mark González Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 30Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Apr 29From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 8From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 8Coauthors revised.
- Apr 7
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 2Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.Minor
- Feb 13From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- Feb 12Read first time. To print.Introduced