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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 323: Student Aid Commission: California Dream Act application.

Passed one chamber 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

SB 323 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 11, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Student Aid Commission: California Dream Act application. Primary sponsor: Sasha Renée Pérez (D). It lists 4 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (August 29, 2025): August 29 hearing postponed by committee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

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

Existing law exempts a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges if the student meets certain requirements. Existing law makes a student who meets these requirements for exemption from nonresident tuition, or who meets equivalent requirements adopted by the Regents of the University of California, eligible to apply for, and participate in, any student financial aid program administered by the state to the full extent permitted by federal law. Existing law requires the Student Aid Commission to establish procedures and forms that enable these students to apply for, and participate in, those student financial aid programs.

This bill would require the commission, by the start of the 2026–27 financial aid cycle, to amend the California Dream Act application, and any of its grant processing systems, to clarify and ensure that the application can be used by any student eligible for state financial aid programs, regardless of their eligibility for federal financial aid. The bill would also require the commission to consult with California’s public and private colleges and universities to promote the California Dream Act application effectively and inform students and their families of their available financial aid application options, as provided.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 5

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Sasha Renée PérezPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate25
Anna CaballeroCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate14
Sabrina CervantesCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate31
Robert GarciaCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly50
José Luis SolacheCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly62

“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. August 29 hearing postponed by committee.
  2. August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  3. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  4. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 8).
  5. Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
  6. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  7. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 1. Page 1365.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  8. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  9. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1196.) (May 23).
  10. Set for hearing May 23.
  11. May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  12. Set for hearing May 5.

Sources

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