republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-2000.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition."
description: "(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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 2000"
citation: "California AB 2000 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gomez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2014-02-20"
last_action: "2014-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5376d0dd-e021-4cd7-a03a-8a5d983b937f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000"
source_hash: "ea14d409ff76a902a0a28bb3622689d76176efec755f1742e454b2e27cf636da"
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 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.

1. **02/20/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000&version=20130AB200099INT)
2. **03/17/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000&version=20130AB200098AMD)
3. **04/24/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000&version=20130AB200097AMD)
4. **05/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000&version=20130AB200096AMD)
5. **06/18/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000&version=20130AB200095AMD)
6. **09/27/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000&version=20130AB200093CHP)
7. **AB2000** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000)
8. **08/27/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2000&version=20130AB200094ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2000 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **70–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2000 Gomez By Lara Lay on Table — **20–7** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2000 Gomez By Lara — **27–6** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
- 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5376d0dd-e021-4cd7-a03a-8a5d983b937f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).