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type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: nonresident tuition: foreign citizens."
description: "Existing law requires a community college district to charge a nonresident tuition fee to nonresident students, with certain exceptions. Existing law requires the fee to be set according to a formula that, with other modifications, divides the expense of education in the district by the number of full-time equivalent students, as defined, attending in the district in the preceding fiscal year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 947"
citation: "California AB 947 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: nonresident tuition: foreign citizens."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brownley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-02-26"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15aae142-1db0-4886-8e28-78a066343481"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB947"
source_hash: "8aa40b8eb6714bc01ebe63ff1978302932a80601f2784015842a28a69483a59f"
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 947 (20092010) — Community colleges: nonresident tuition: foreign citizens.
Existing law requires a community college district to charge a nonresident tuition fee to nonresident students, with certain exceptions. Existing law requires the fee to be set according to a formula that, with other modifications, divides the expense of education in the district by the number of full-time equivalent students, as defined, attending in the district in the preceding fiscal year.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/26/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB947&version=20090AB94799INT)
2. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB947&version=20090AB94797CHP)
3. **AB947** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB947)
4. **08/31/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB947&version=20090AB94798ENR)
## Votes
- AB 947 BROWNLEY Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB947 Brownley By Pavley — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brownley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2009-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2009-03-26** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 21. Page 1464.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2009-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 1973.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-08-27** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-09-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 377, Statutes of 2009.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15aae142-1db0-4886-8e28-78a066343481`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).