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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 391: Community colleges: Chancellor of the California Community Colleges: data request fee policy.

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

SB 391 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 14, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Community colleges: Chancellor of the California Community Colleges: data request fee policy. Primary sponsor: John Laird (D). Most recent recorded action (October 13, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 753, Statutes of 2025.

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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 Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges as one segment of public postsecondary education in the state. Under existing law, the board of governors appoints a chief executive officer, who is known as the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.

This bill would authorize the chancellor to implement a data request fee policy for researchers applying for access to individually identifiable data, student data, or both. If a data request fee policy is implemented, the bill would require the policy to be reviewed and approved by the board of governors, revised periodically, made publicly available and posted in a prominent location on the chancellor’s internet website, and comply with applicable federal and state privacy laws, as provided. The bill would prohibit fees or charges from being imposed on a state entity, except as provided, on an undergraduate or graduate student seeking data for the student’s individual studies, or on a community college faculty member seeking data for the faculty member’s individual research.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
John LairdPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate17

“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 753, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2407.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 2767.) Ordered to the Senate.
  7. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read third time and amended.
  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 2).
  11. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 24).

Sources

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