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Bill	Student financial aid: Chafee grant awards.	Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the state agency primarily responsible for the administration and coordination of student financial aid programs at California postsecondary educational institutions. Existing federal law establishes the Chafee Educational and Training Voucher program for the purposes of providing financial aid to current and former foster youth who are attending qualifying postsecondary educational institutions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2506	California AB 2506 (20152016)	bill	Student financial aid: Chafee grant awards.	enacted	Thurmond	9	27	8	2016-02-19	2016-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/9ce21f38-859b-4cd5-a4b5-53262cbdecf0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2506	1f70b2f7f75319967b0ebe44163284d1c92259362fa76e9619c7f3a1e979f353	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2506 (20152016) — Student financial aid: Chafee grant awards.

Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the state agency primarily responsible for the administration and coordination of student financial aid programs at California postsecondary educational institutions. Existing federal law establishes the Chafee Educational and Training Voucher program for the purposes of providing financial aid to current and former foster youth who are attending qualifying postsecondary educational institutions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2506 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2506 Thurmond By Beall — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2506 THURMOND Assembly Third Reading — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2506 THURMOND Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Thurmond — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-08 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-03-30 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
• 2016-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 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 1. Page 5114.) 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
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, 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
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5418.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6524.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2016-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 388, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ce21f38-859b-4cd5-a4b5-53262cbdecf0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).