CA SB 323
in committeeStudent Aid Commission: California Dream Act application.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 323 pass?
Not yet. CA SB 323 is in committee as of 2025-08-29 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): August 29 hearing postponed by committee.
What is CA SB 323 about?
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.
Who sponsors CA SB 323?
Pérez is the primary sponsor of CA SB 323, joined by 4 cosponsors.
Description
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.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-11
- Latest action
- 2025-08-29 — August 29 hearing postponed by committee.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Subjects
Sponsors
- Pérezauthor
- Caballerocoauthor
- Cervantescoauthor
- Garciacoauthor
- Solachecoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-11
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-12
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 14.
2025-02-19
Referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-03-25
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-04-02
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
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2025-04-04
Set for hearing April 23.
2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 865.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-25
Set for hearing May 5.
2025-05-05
May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1196.) (May 23).
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 1. Page 1365.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-03
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-09
Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
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2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 8).
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2025-07-10
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-20
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
August 29 hearing postponed by committee.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-23 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cortese: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-05 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
- Seyarto: other
3rd Reading
2025-06-02 · pass · 31-1
Member-level votes (40)
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Limón: yes
- Allen: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Strickland: no
- Niello: other
- Seyarto: other
- Reyes: other
- Grove: other
- Dahle: other
- Choi: other
- Jones: other
- Hurtado: other
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-08 · pass · 8-2
Member-level votes (10)
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Fong: yes
- Patel: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Tangipa: no
- DeMaio: no
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