republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-288.md

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Bill	Public schools: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.	Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to allow pupils whom the district has determined would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend community college as special part-time or full-time students, subject to parental permission. Existing law requires credit to be awarded to these pupils, as specified, authorizes a school principal to recommend a pupil for community college summer session if the pupil meets specified criteria, and prohibits the principal from recommending more than 5% of the total number of pupils from any particular grade level who completed that grade immediately before the time of recommendation for summer session attendance.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 288	California AB 288 (20152016)	bill	Public schools: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.	enacted	Holden	9	28	9	2015-02-11	2015-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/3045d6b9-212d-4c87-8bfb-3c57e65c893b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB288	4615e6aa12f782aa779fe02544c3a31b474981f0ed036c1a271163962c55f469	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 288 (20152016) — Public schools: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to allow pupils whom the district has determined would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend community college as special part-time or full-time students, subject to parental permission. Existing law requires credit to be awarded to these pupils, as specified, authorizes a school principal to recommend a pupil for community college summer session if the pupil meets specified criteria, and prohibits the principal from recommending more than 5% of the total number of pupils from any particular grade level who completed that grade immediately before the time of recommendation for summer session attendance.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB288 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/14/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB288 Holden By Leyva — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 288 HOLDEN Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 288 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Holden — primary (person)
• Alejo — coauthor (person)
• Baker — principal coauthor (person)
• Chang — principal coauthor (person)
• Chávez — principal coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — principal coauthor (person)
• Olsen — author (person)
• Santiago — principal coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — principal coauthor (person)
• Ting — principal coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2015-03-02 Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and ED. referral-committee
• 2015-03-23 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
• 2015-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1707.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-07-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2634.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3054.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 618, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3045d6b9-212d-4c87-8bfb-3c57e65c893b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).