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Bill	Cal Grant Program: graduation verification.	The Cal Grant Program establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards, the Cal Grant C award, and the Cal Grant T award under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. As part of these eligibility requirements, existing law authorizes the commission to require the verification of high school graduation or its equivalent to be electronically submitted to the commission for all former grade 12 pupils who graduated from public schools, including charter schools, in the prior academic year, except for pupils who have opted out, as specified. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that high schools or high school districts verify the graduation of their pupils in time to meet specified deadlines.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2056	California AB 2056 (20152016)	bill	Cal Grant Program: graduation verification.	enacted	Eduardo Garcia	6	23	7	2016-02-17	2016-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/a5e5b302-d943-41d2-8a68-06204397fa05	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2056	14cd8d2d655398d586ed176381f2db722fd2050a1d0c1225d305aa7dbc27d1b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2056 (20152016) — Cal Grant Program: graduation verification.

The Cal Grant Program establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards, the Cal Grant C award, and the Cal Grant T award under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. As part of these eligibility requirements, existing law authorizes the commission to require the verification of high school graduation or its equivalent to be electronically submitted to the commission for all former grade 12 pupils who graduated from public schools, including charter schools, in the prior academic year, except for pupils who have opted out, as specified. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that high schools or high school districts verify the graduation of their pupils in time to meet specified deadlines.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/14/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2056 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2056 Eduardo Garcia By Lara — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2056 GARCIA, E. Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2016-02-29 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-03-28 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
• 2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 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. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4870.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-26 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). 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
• 2016-08-11 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
• 2016-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5244.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 351, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5e5b302-d943-41d2-8a68-06204397fa05. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).