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Bill	Student athletes: scholarships.	Existing law prohibits any person from giving, offering, promising, or attempting to give any money or any other thing of value to any particular student athlete or member of the immediate family of the student athlete for purposes of inducing or encouraging the student athlete's application, enrollment, or attendance at a public or private institution of postsecondary education in order to have the athlete participate in intercollegiate sporting events, contests, exhibitions, or programs at that institution, except in accordance with the bylaws of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2079	California AB 2079 (20092010)	bill	Student athletes: scholarships.	enacted	Torlakson	10	30	9	2010-02-18	2010-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ca06d9e5-8940-4b18-9aed-13c2e8fbcff9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2079	2a6e2467ed23dbcaf920b128e44b345ca9de8e2554132c66eacd9da9f13ccb99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2079 (20092010) — Student athletes: scholarships.

Existing law prohibits any person from giving, offering, promising, or attempting to give any money or any other thing of value to any particular student athlete or member of the immediate family of the student athlete for purposes of inducing or encouraging the student athlete's application, enrollment, or attendance at a public or private institution of postsecondary education in order to have the athlete participate in intercollegiate sporting events, contests, exhibitions, or programs at that institution, except in accordance with the bylaws of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/20/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2079 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/03/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB2079 Torlakson By Strickland — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Arts, Entertain, Sports, Tourism, & Internet Media — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2079 TORLAKSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2079 TORLAKSON Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Torlakson — primary (person)
• Davis — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2010-03-25 Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
• 2010-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2010-04-08 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-04-12 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
• 2010-04-20 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-02 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 5497.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-06-10 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2010-07-15 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 30). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-08-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 5.) (August 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-23 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-24 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 4824.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-25 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 6645.)
• 2010-08-26 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 6710.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-08 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 592, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca06d9e5-8940-4b18-9aed-13c2e8fbcff9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).