---
type: "Bill"
title: "Student loan debt repayment."
description: "This measure would urge the United States Secretary of Education to establish and submit to the United States Congress for approval a monthly student loan payment plan for federal student loans, based on the personal savings rate as published by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AJR 26"
citation: "California AJR 26 (20212022)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Student loan debt repayment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Medina"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-09"
last_action: "2022-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8e7d801-4470-4b68-97b8-59708d2cf93f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR26"
source_hash: "8d4405ae43e52bf933d23c6ac71ac074284989428507ea36a063e11a0afaef2d"
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 AJR 26 (20212022) — Student loan debt repayment.

This measure would urge the United States Secretary of Education to establish and submit to the United States Congress for approval a monthly student loan payment plan for federal student loans, based on the personal savings rate as published by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR26&version=20210AJR2699INT)
2. **06/02/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR26&version=20210AJR2698AMD)
3. **09/06/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR26&version=20210AJR2696CHP)
4. **AJR26** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR26)
5. **08/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR26&version=20210AJR2697ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AJR26 Medina et al. By Leyva — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AJR 26 Medina Assembly Third Reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AJR 26 Medina Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Medina — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-09** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-10** From printer.
- **2022-02-18** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2022-04-21** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-04-21** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4367.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-04-25** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** From committee: Amend, and be adopted as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-06-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-24** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5096.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2022-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-06** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 174, 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/a8e7d801-4470-4b68-97b8-59708d2cf93f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).