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Bill	Advanced Placement credit.	Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Regents of the University of California, and the Trustees of the California State University, with appropriate consultation with the Academic Senates of the respective segments, to jointly develop, maintain, and disseminate a shared core curriculum in general education courses for the purposes of transfer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1985	California AB 1985 (20152016)	bill	Advanced Placement credit.	enacted	Williams	7	23	8	2016-02-16	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/683e0f0f-72a5-4ae9-8e83-6f1ccc8abcb0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1985	36609bc6dfc813e339b2ba98fda78db51bc0234157b028fe680da041b507652b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1985 (20152016) — Advanced Placement credit.

Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Regents of the University of California, and the Trustees of the California State University, with appropriate consultation with the Academic Senates of the respective segments, to jointly develop, maintain, and disseminate a shared core curriculum in general education courses for the purposes of transfer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1985 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1985 WILLIAMS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 19–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1985 WILLIAMS Assembly Third Reading — 73–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1985 Williams By Block — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Williams — primary (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Steinorth — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 19). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 1.) (May 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 4895.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-06-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 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
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5024.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 4. Page 6111.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 513, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/683e0f0f-72a5-4ae9-8e83-6f1ccc8abcb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).