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Bill	Student financial aid: California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Program.	(1) Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement awards, the California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards, the Cal Grant C awards, and the Cal Grant T awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1449	California AB 1449 (20152016)	bill	Student financial aid: California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Program.	enacted	Lopez	10	30	8	2015-02-27	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/a22fdd8c-d021-4ead-988b-b22063d11365	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1449	cf282296a73edcea77d87d6d8df6fee3306ac2647733f27553f01a69393ea5af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1449 (20152016) — Student financial aid: California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Program.

(1) Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement awards, the California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards, the Cal Grant C awards, and the Cal Grant T awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/05/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 01/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/18/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1449 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1449 LOPEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1449 Lopez By Block — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1449 LOPEZ Assembly Third Reading — 74–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lopez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-12-09 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-01-04 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
• 2016-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-01-05 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
• 2016-01-06 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-01-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-01-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-01-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 3478.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-02-04 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5344.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 6465.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 433, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a22fdd8c-d021-4ead-988b-b22063d11365. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).