republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1016.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public postsecondary education: Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act."
description: "Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges and the California State University as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law, the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, encourages community colleges to facilitate the acceptance of credits earned at other community colleges toward the associate degree for transfer. The act requires the California State University to guarantee admission with junior status to a community college student who meets the requirements for the associate degree for transfer, and provides that admission to the California State University under these provisions does not guarantee admission for specific majors or campuses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1016"
citation: "California AB 1016 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public postsecondary education: Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2636dfce-b76d-4686-9f51-0d782d44def0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016"
source_hash: "32e6ca76038435d93cfce069ea0943d34de569426a1b9ca6ebd196647bf42a4d"
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 1016 (20152016) — Public postsecondary education: Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges and the California State University as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law, the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, encourages community colleges to facilitate the acceptance of credits earned at other community colleges toward the associate degree for transfer. The act requires the California State University to guarantee admission with junior status to a community college student who meets the requirements for the associate degree for transfer, and provides that admission to the California State University under these provisions does not guarantee admission for specific majors or campuses.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016&version=20150AB101699INT)
2. **04/13/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016&version=20150AB101698AMD)
3. **05/28/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016&version=20150AB101697AMD)
4. **06/30/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016&version=20150AB101696AMD)
5. **07/08/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016&version=20150AB101695AMD)
6. **10/02/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016&version=20150AB101693CHP)
7. **AB1016** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016)
8. **08/31/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1016&version=20150AB101694ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1016 Santiago By Block — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1016 SANTIAGO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1016 SANTIAGO Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Santiago — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-19** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-13** 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, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1812.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-11** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 24). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2149.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2615.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 437, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2636dfce-b76d-4686-9f51-0d782d44def0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).