Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition.
(1) Existing law provides 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 an affidavit, as specified, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University.
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20132014
AB 2000
California AB 2000 (20132014)
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Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition.
California AB 2000 (20132014) — Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition.
(1) Existing law provides 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 an affidavit, as specified, 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.
Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 2000 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — 68–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Gomez — primary (person)
Block — coauthor (person)
Fong — coauthor (person)
Garcia — coauthor (person)
Gorell — coauthor (person)
Padilla — coauthor (person)
Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
Ting — coauthor (person)
Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2014-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2014-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2014-03-03 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
2014-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2014-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
2014-04-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2014-04-24 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2014-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2014-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2014-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2014-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2014-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 2. Page 5259.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2014-06-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2014-06-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
2014-06-30 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2014-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2014-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2014-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 4708.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-08-21 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2014-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 3. Page 6385.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2014-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2014-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2014-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 675, Statutes of 2014.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5376d0dd-e021-4cd7-a03a-8a5d983b937f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).