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type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: priority enrollment."
description: "Existing law, the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, defines \"matriculation\" as a process that brings a college and a student into an agreement for the purpose of achieving the student's educational goals and completing the student's course of study. The act specifies the responsibilities of students and institutions entering into the agreement, including, among others, a student's responsibility to identify an academic and career goal, to declare a specific course of study, and to be diligent in class attendance and the completion of assigned coursework."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 595"
citation: "California AB 595 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: priority enrollment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gomez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c5f01de-f82d-47ed-b4a6-315e0b30c253"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB595"
source_hash: "f29265cd94e3c9cb89b6603415e487ff509f1780bf229ea9a78a3625595aeead"
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 595 (20132014) — Community colleges: priority enrollment.
Existing law, the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, defines "matriculation" as a process that brings a college and a student into an agreement for the purpose of achieving the student's educational goals and completing the student's course of study. The act specifies the responsibilities of students and institutions entering into the agreement, including, among others, a student's responsibility to identify an academic and career goal, to declare a specific course of study, and to be diligent in class attendance and the completion of assigned coursework.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB595&version=20130AB59599INT)
2. **04/15/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB595&version=20130AB59598AMD)
3. **06/26/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB595&version=20130AB59597AMD)
4. **09/06/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB595&version=20130AB59596AMD)
5. **10/10/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB595&version=20130AB59594CHP)
6. **AB595** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB595)
7. **09/19/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB595&version=20130AB59595ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **90** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
- AB 595 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — **730** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **120** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB595 Gomez By Block — **381** (pass) · upper
- AB 595 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gomez — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** From consent calendar.
- **2013-05-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1453.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-08-19** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-20** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-09-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-09-09** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2013-09-09** Ordered to second reading.
- **2013-09-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2357.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2013-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3298.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 704, Statutes of 2013.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c5f01de-f82d-47ed-b4a6-315e0b30c253`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).