---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: student representation fee: statewide community college student organization: goals."
description: "Existing law authorizes the governing body of a student body association to order an election be held to establish a student representation fee of $2 per semester, collected by officials of the community college at or before registration, and requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the students voting in the election to establish the fee. Existing law authorizes a student to refuse to pay the fee for certain reasons pursuant to a specified procedure and specifies another procedure for an election to terminate the student representation fee for a community college. For a student representation fee adopted on or after January 1, 2014, existing law requires $1 of the $2 fee to be expended to establish and support the operations of a statewide community college student organization. Existing law specifies underlying goals required of the statewide community college student organization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1504"
citation: "California AB 1504 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: student representation fee: statewide community college student organization: goals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Medina"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbb33879-dba3-46d1-b0b9-25b00c1a9e5c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1504"
source_hash: "5f5f45fd686eba429ac4716ac587c3c4197defa2213c007e5ce85fb60cffcc49"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1504 (20192020) — Community colleges: student representation fee: statewide community college student organization: goals.

Existing law authorizes the governing body of a student body association to order an election be held to establish a student representation fee of $2 per semester, collected by officials of the community college at or before registration, and requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the students voting in the election to establish the fee. Existing law authorizes a student to refuse to pay the fee for certain reasons pursuant to a specified procedure and specifies another procedure for an election to terminate the student representation fee for a community college. For a student representation fee adopted on or after January 1, 2014, existing law requires $1 of the $2 fee to be expended to establish and support the operations of a statewide community college student organization. Existing law specifies underlying goals required of the statewide community college student organization.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1504&version=20190AB150499INT)
2. **03/19/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1504&version=20190AB150498AMD)
3. **06/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1504&version=20190AB150497AMD)
4. **10/04/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1504&version=20190AB150495CHP)
5. **AB1504** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1504)
6. **08/27/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1504&version=20190AB150496ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1504 Medina By Leyva — **28–10** (pass) · upper
- AB 1504 Medina Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **59–12** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1504 Medina Assembly Third Reading — **58–12** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Medina — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 12. Page 1512.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 2239.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 12. Page 2836.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 523, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbb33879-dba3-46d1-b0b9-25b00c1a9e5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).