Higher education budget trailer bill.

This bill instead would prohibit, from the 2027–28 award year to the 2031–32 award year, inclusive, a student who will be 30 years of age or older by December 31 of an award year from receiving a California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Award.

Existing law establishes the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program, under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, for licensed attorneys who practice or agree to practice in public interest areas of the law, as defined, and who meet established eligibility criteria. Existing law requires loan repayment of the eligible participant to be made to the lender, as provided.

This bill would authorize loan repayment under the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program to also be made to the participant, and would make related and conforming changes.

Existing law requires the office of the Chancellor of the California State University to annually develop, and to report on or before February 15 of each year, to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, the Assembly Committee on Budget, and the Department of Finance enrollment targets and related data for each California State University campus, as provided.

This bill would instead require the chancellor's office to report the enrollment targets and related data on or before March 15 of each year.

Existing law appropriates $49,734,000 in the 2025–26 fiscal year from the Public School System Stabilization Account for allocation for the Student Centered Funding Formula, as specified.

This bill would repeal that appropriation.

Existing law authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, a participating college, as defined, and the State Public Works Board (SPWB) to acquire, design, construct, and equip a student housing project, as described, and to acquire the site or sites upon which a student housing project is located. To be eligible for financing for a student housing project, existing law requires a participating college to, among other things, certify to the SPWB that the student housing project design includes the number of beds for low-income students specified in a certain application, as provided. Existing law requires the board of governors, a participating college, and the SPWB to enter into an agreement for each student housing project, as provided.

This bill would revise and recast the provisions governing the above-described student housing projects, as specified, including, among other revisions, deleting the above-described authority to acquire a student housing project and to acquire the site or sites upon which a student housing project is located. For student housing projects selected for financing on or after June 30, 2026, the bill would instead require the board of governors to provide SPWB with specified information, including, among other things, documentation that the participating college has fee title ownership of the property upon which the project will be constructed, and documentation of the participating college's unmet demand for student housing, as specified.

Existing law requests the University of California to establish and administer the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program, until January 1, 2027, for the purpose of collecting units of umbilical cord blood for public use, as defined, in transplantation and providing nonclinical units for specified research. Existing law requires the university, by January 1, 2026, if it elects to administer the program, to provide a report to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Health that addresses specified information relating to the program, including the number of cord blood units collected and registered under the program, disaggregated by race and ethnicity.

This bill would extend the provisions of the program until January 1, 2032. The bill would require the university, by January 1, 2031, if it elects to administer the program, to provide a report to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Health that addresses specified information relating to the program.

Existing law appropriates $60,000,000 in the 2025–26 fiscal year, and $147,208,000 in the 2026–27 fiscal year, from the General Fund to the board of governors for the Student Support Block Grant. Existing law authorizes these funds to be expended until June 30, 2029, for specified purposes, including, among other purposes, student basic needs assistance and mental health services, as provided. Existing law requires community college districts, as a condition of receiving these funds, to submit a report to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges on or before December 31, 2026, and on or before December 31 each year thereafter until December 31, 2029, as provided. Existing law requires the chancellor's office to submit an interim report on or before July 1, 2028, and a final report on or before July 1, 2030, to the Department of Finance and the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, as provided.

This bill would appropriate an additional $325,000 in the 2026–27 fiscal year for the Student Support Block Grant. The bill would instead authorize the funds appropriated for the Student Support Block Grant to be expended until June 30, 2030, for any student support program purpose, including, but not limited to, the above-described purposes. The bill would extend by one year the above-described deadlines and sunset date for the annual report submitted by community college districts, and would require the chancellor's office to submit the above-described interim report on or before December 31, 2028, and the above-described final report on or before December 31, 2031.

Existing law appropriates $15,000,000 in the 2026–27 fiscal year from the General Fund to the board of governors to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students. For purposes of allocating and expending this funding, existing law requires the chancellor's office to provide grants of up to $900,000 for participating community college districts based on the proportional share of students they serve and equity metrics to ensure that small rural colleges are also able to access the grants, and authorizes participating community college districts to encumber the funds over a 5-year period.

This bill would delete the above-described grant requirement and encumbrance provision.

The funds appropriated by the bill would be applied toward meeting the minimum funding requirements for school district and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, as specified.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.