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Bill	Public postsecondary education: Student Civic and Voter Empowerment Act.	Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The missions and functions of these segments are set forth in the Donahoe Higher Education Act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 963	California AB 963 (20192020)	bill	Public postsecondary education: Student Civic and Voter Empowerment Act.	enacted	Petrie-Norris	13	36	9	2019-02-21	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/eb989575-90a6-4e3f-bbb9-6881a6f46072	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB963	e583150f122a22ad59222c04e63381ead23d359c77c97e7528bf262e331fbfdb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 963 (20192020) — Public postsecondary education: Student Civic and Voter Empowerment Act.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The missions and functions of these segments are set forth in the Donahoe Higher Education Act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/24/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/09/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB963 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 963 Petrie-Norris Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–7 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 15–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 963 Petrie-Norris Assembly Third Reading — 63–7 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB963 Petrie-Norris et al. By Durazo — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections and Constitutional Amendments] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Petrie-Norris — primary (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2019-03-25 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2019-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 7. Page 2039.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on ED. and E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2744.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 7. Page 3413.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 559, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb989575-90a6-4e3f-bbb9-6881a6f46072. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).