---
type: "Bill"
title: "Postsecondary education: tuition and fees."
description: "Postsecondary education: tuition and fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1746"
citation: "California AB 1746 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Postsecondary education: tuition and fees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Liu"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2002-01-07"
last_action: "2002-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fd0c80a-e566-4bc0-b847-3ef9ea518b05"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746"
source_hash: "d6e3c4287852d3c2260540ede1498e0972112a8f411bb9d81070a26f1d0a0296"
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 1746 (20012002) — Postsecondary education: tuition and fees.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/07/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746&version=20010AB174699INT)
2. **04/10/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746&version=20010AB174698AMD)
3. **06/05/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746&version=20010AB174697AMD)
4. **06/19/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746&version=20010AB174696AMD)
5. **08/12/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746&version=20010AB174695AMD)
6. **08/26/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746&version=20010AB174694AMD)
7. **09/10/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746&version=20010AB174692CHP)
8. **AB1746** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746)
9. **08/31/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1746&version=20010AB174693ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1746 Lui Special Consent Calendar 2nd Day — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1746 Liu Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB1746 Liu — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB1746 Liu — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Liu — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Bill Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Cohn — coauthor (person)
- Havice — coauthor (person)
- Robert Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 450, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2002-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 8675.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2002-08-28** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5861.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-26** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-26** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2002-08-22** Ordered returned to Senate.
- **2002-08-20** From Special Consent Calendar. To unfinished business file.
- **2002-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2002-08-14** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5446.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-12** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-19** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-02** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 5852.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-04-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-04-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 23. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-15** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-10** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-04-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 2). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-01-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Higher Education. `referral-committee`
- **2002-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
- **2002-01-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fd0c80a-e566-4bc0-b847-3ef9ea518b05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).