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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 1920: Community colleges: California College Promise: fee waiver eligibility.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 1920 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 12, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Community colleges: California College Promise: fee waiver eligibility. . Primary sponsor: Mark González (D), Patrick Ahrens (D). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (June 29, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 32, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Mark GonzálezPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly54
Patrick AhrensPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly26
Juan AlanisCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly22

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 32, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
  4. In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4860.).
  6. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  7. From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
  8. From 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.
  9. Referred to Com. on ED.
  10. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  11. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4998.)
  12. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page