---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: student government."
description: "Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college to authorize the students of a college to organize a student body association and requires a student who is elected to serve as an officer in the student government to be enrolled in the community college at the time of election and throughout their term with a minimum of 5 semester units or its equivalent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1736"
citation: "California AB 1736 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: student government."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Choi"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1079806-66f1-41e2-9692-1df9b17171e3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1736"
source_hash: "3c09c167055d278520ab2649ff27ed52f00f5f6cacf6bc24edf36d93b52f5e38"
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 1736 (20212022) — Community colleges: student government.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college to authorize the students of a college to organize a student body association and requires a student who is elected to serve as an officer in the student government to be enrolled in the community college at the time of election and throughout their term with a minimum of 5 semester units or its equivalent.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/31/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1736&version=20210AB173699INT)
2. **03/17/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1736&version=20210AB173698AMD)
3. **07/01/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1736&version=20210AB173696CHP)
4. **AB1736** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1736)
5. **06/17/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1736&version=20210AB173697ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1736 Choi Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1736 — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Choi — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2022-02-10** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-03-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3983.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-03-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4264.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 79, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1079806-66f1-41e2-9692-1df9b17171e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).