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Bill	Public postsecondary education: exemption from tuition and fees for qualifying survivors of deceased public safety and fire suppression personnel: notice.	(1) Existing law prohibits the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University, 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	20172018	AB 2990	California AB 2990 (20172018)	bill	Public postsecondary education: exemption from tuition and fees for qualifying survivors of deceased public safety and fire suppression personnel: notice.	enacted	Low	6	23	5	2018-02-16	2018-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/5baaf2a1-aa6d-4c78-9d9e-6e08c5c22175	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2990	ae869925eef5ca5483b815f2030160e6ee74f321a5ca08a959c16480f16c3558	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2990 (20172018) — Public postsecondary education: exemption from tuition and fees for qualifying survivors of deceased public safety and fire suppression personnel: notice.

(1) Existing law prohibits the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University, 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. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/21/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2990 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2990 Low By Allen — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2990 LOW Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-19 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2018-03-20 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
• 2018-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-05 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4901.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-06-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-06-28 From Consent Calendar.
• 2018-06-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5290.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2018-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 642, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5baaf2a1-aa6d-4c78-9d9e-6e08c5c22175. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).