---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enrollment agreements."
description: "Existing law prescribes various conditions and limitations on enrollment in educational institutions, including, in some cases, on the provisions in enrollment agreements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 272"
citation: "California AB 272 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Enrollment agreements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kiley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-19"
last_action: "2021-08-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2540f9d7-2846-4a2c-b854-6c9196ea6e8f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB272"
source_hash: "24c057c2bcd2cbb26f588f99c7c2744c1aba433d1f704ff8b948f35a35e58c3a"
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 272 (20212022) — Enrollment agreements.

Existing law prescribes various conditions and limitations on enrollment in educational institutions, including, in some cases, on the provisions in enrollment agreements.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB272&version=20210AB27299INT)
2. **08/31/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB272&version=20210AB27297CHP)
3. **AB272** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB272)
4. **08/17/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB272&version=20210AB27298ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 272 Kiley Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB272 Kiley et al. By Wiener — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kiley — primary (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-20** From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-04-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1355.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-19** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2042.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2021-08-31** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-08-31** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 146, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2540f9d7-2846-4a2c-b854-6c9196ea6e8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).