republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-835.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: Economic and Workforce Development Program."
description: "Existing law, until January 1, 2013, establishes the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. Existing law provides for the awarding of grants for this program, and provides that this program shall only be implemented during fiscal years for which funds are appropriated for these purposes. Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as part of the program, to assist economic and workforce regional development centers and consortia to improve linkages and career-technical education pathways between high schools and community colleges, in a manner that, among other things, improves the quality of career exploration and career outreach materials. Existing law also requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop an implementation strategy for achieving this goal, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 835"
citation: "California AB 835 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: Economic and Workforce Development Program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mitchell"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/782e1e2f-12a3-47dc-ace9-a70e40511ea1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835"
source_hash: "ebd63edd22eab9b5a4bec4da34e852a14f12194eb5204a1356760cd085734cde"
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 835 (20112012) — Community colleges: Economic and Workforce Development Program.

Existing law, until January 1, 2013, establishes the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. Existing law provides for the awarding of grants for this program, and provides that this program shall only be implemented during fiscal years for which funds are appropriated for these purposes. Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as part of the program, to assist economic and workforce regional development centers and consortia to improve linkages and career-technical education pathways between high schools and community colleges, in a manner that, among other things, improves the quality of career exploration and career outreach materials. Existing law also requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop an implementation strategy for achieving this goal, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835&version=20110AB83599INT)
2. **03/21/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835&version=20110AB83598AMD)
3. **03/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835&version=20110AB83597AMD)
4. **04/26/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835&version=20110AB83596AMD)
5. **06/29/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835&version=20110AB83595AMD)
6. **09/06/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835&version=20110AB83593CHP)
7. **AB835** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835)
8. **08/19/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB835&version=20110AB83594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Education. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB835 Mitchell By Liu — **34–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 835 MITCHELL Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 835 MITCHELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mitchell — primary (person)
- Dickinson — coauthor (person)
- Nestande — coauthor (person)
- Solorio — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2011-03-10** Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-21** 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`
- **2011-03-22** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-31** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-26** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-02** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2011-05-02** Ordered to second reading.
- **2011-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1241.) `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`
- **2011-06-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-06-08** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-06-28** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 22). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 1853.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-18** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2441.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2011-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 224, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/782e1e2f-12a3-47dc-ace9-a70e40511ea1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).