republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-130.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act of 2011."
description: "Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he or she is an alien without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 130"
citation: "California AB 130 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act of 2011."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cedillo"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-01-11"
last_action: "2011-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ffffdcb-d3aa-41df-87b4-1a2ab665d84e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130"
source_hash: "a74ffb40707c20ff76a8326720a699d8df11aa548364694a1bd347174847e3aa"
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 130 (20112012) — Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act of 2011.

Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he or she is an alien without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/11/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130&version=20110AB13099INT)
2. **03/08/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130&version=20110AB13098AMD)
3. **03/17/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130&version=20110AB13097AMD)
4. **04/06/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130&version=20110AB13096AMD)
5. **05/02/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130&version=20110AB13095AMD)
6. **07/25/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130&version=20110AB13093CHP)
7. **AB130** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130)
8. **07/18/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB130&version=20110AB13094ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **12–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 130 CEDILLO Assembly Third Reading — **51–22** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 130 CEDILLO Assembly Third Reading Amend By CEDILLO Set #1 — **48–26** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–3** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB130 Cedillo By Calderon — **26–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cedillo — primary (person)
- Alejo — principal coauthor (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
- Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Brownley — coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- De León — principal coauthor (person)
- Eng — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Furutani — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Lara — principal coauthor (person)
- Mendoza — coauthor (person)
- Monning — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Roger Hernández — principal coauthor (person)
- Yamada — coauthor (person)
- Yee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-12** From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
- **2011-02-03** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (March 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-17** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (April 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-02** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 48. Noes 26. Page 1166.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 22. Page 1233.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 1860.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-07-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2011-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 93, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ffffdcb-d3aa-41df-87b4-1a2ab665d84e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).