republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2248.md

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Bill	Student financial aid: Cal Grant program.	Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program (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, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements and maximum levels for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions, as defined. Existing law, for the purposes of the Cal Grant Program, defines "full time" to mean 12 or more semester units or the equivalent and defines "part time" to mean 6 to 11 semester units or the equivalent.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2248	California AB 2248 (20172018)	bill	Student financial aid: Cal Grant program.	enacted	McCarty	9	28	6	2018-02-13	2018-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/584ead46-6e6a-45bf-8350-04214c10e8fe	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2248	25c9f98bef613b6fd1ac9682820ab04c0771d371e4c24cfca1b71e6374dc7257	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2248 (20172018) — Student financial aid: Cal Grant program.

Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program (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, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements and maximum levels for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions, as defined. Existing law, for the purposes of the Cal Grant Program, defines "full time" to mean 12 or more semester units or the equivalent and defines "part time" to mean 6 to 11 semester units or the equivalent.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/26/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/05/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/26/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2248 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2248 MCCARTY Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2248 McCarty et al. By Glazer — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2248 MCCARTY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)
• Arambula — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-02-14 Introduced measure version corrected. introduction
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2018-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-04-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-26 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5214.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5465.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6603.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 758, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/584ead46-6e6a-45bf-8350-04214c10e8fe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).