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Bill	Public postsecondary education: tuition and fees.	Existing law prohibits the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, the Trustees of the California State University, the governing boards of each community college district, and, if they adopt an appropriate resolution, the Regents of the University of California from collecting mandatory systemwide tuition and fees from any surviving spouse or surviving child of a deceased person who was a resident of the state and employed by or contracting with a public agency, whose principal duties consisted of active law enforcement service or active fire suppression and prevention, and who died as a result of his or her duties, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2164	California AB 2164 (20152016)	bill	Public postsecondary education: tuition and fees.	enacted	O'Donnell	9	25	8	2016-02-17	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/2ee45b6e-40c9-4f8c-9c48-847547dc434e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2164	fb65765583d4df1579b9a5a0954b4b86dd9522a5a3ab1437fdc01699c02f8fe4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2164 (20152016) — Public postsecondary education: tuition and fees.

Existing law prohibits the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, the Trustees of the California State University, the governing boards of each community college district, and, if they adopt an appropriate resolution, the Regents of the University of California from collecting mandatory systemwide tuition and fees from any surviving spouse or surviving child of a deceased person who was a resident of the state and employed by or contracting with a public agency, whose principal duties consisted of active law enforcement service or active fire suppression and prevention, and who died as a result of his or her duties, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2164 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2164 O'DONNELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2164 O'Donnell By Hertzberg — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2164 O'DONNELL Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• O'Donnell — primary (person)
• Cooper — author (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)
• Travis Allen — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (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
• 2016-04-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 12). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5133.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-06-09 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
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-27 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
• 2016-08-15 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. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5121.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6397.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 435, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ee45b6e-40c9-4f8c-9c48-847547dc434e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).