republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-701.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public postsecondary education: federal GI Bill: nonresident tuition: real property."
description: "(1) Effective for academic terms beginning after July 1, 2019, existing law exempts a student enrolled at a campus of the California Community Colleges or the California State University from paying nonresident tuition or any other fee that exclusively applies to nonresident students if the student resides in California, meets the definition of \"covered individual\" under federal law, and is eligible for education benefits under 3 specified categories of beneficiaries under the federal GI Bill, as the federal law read on January 1, 2019. After the expiration of a 3-year period following a discharge under federal law, existing law deems such a student as maintaining \"covered individual\" status as long as the student remains continuously enrolled, as defined, at a campus, and requires the student to continue to be exempt from paying the tuition and fees described above."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 701"
citation: "California SB 701 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public postsecondary education: federal GI Bill: nonresident tuition: real property."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Education"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/752fb77f-dd00-4ffb-bdec-87c77656126f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB701"
source_hash: "e57722a9355532942a73cd4ed955ed034f7a32bc45e6234a793e4f813a0ba6f3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 701 (20212022) — Public postsecondary education: federal GI Bill: nonresident tuition: real property.

(1) Effective for academic terms beginning after July 1, 2019, existing law exempts a student enrolled at a campus of the California Community Colleges or the California State University from paying nonresident tuition or any other fee that exclusively applies to nonresident students if the student resides in California, meets the definition of "covered individual" under federal law, and is eligible for education benefits under 3 specified categories of beneficiaries under the federal GI Bill, as the federal law read on January 1, 2019. After the expiration of a 3-year period following a discharge under federal law, existing law deems such a student as maintaining "covered individual" status as long as the student remains continuously enrolled, as defined, at a campus, and requires the student to continue to be exempt from paying the tuition and fees described above.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB701&version=20210SB70199INT)
2. **03/22/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB701&version=20210SB70198AMD)
3. **04/05/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB701&version=20210SB70197AMD)
4. **07/16/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB701&version=20210SB70195CHP)
5. **SB701** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB701)
6. **07/12/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB701&version=20210SB70196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 701 ED. Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar SB701 ED. — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Education — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **2021-03-03** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Set for hearing April 7.
- **2021-04-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 703.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2021-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Set for hearing May 3.
- **2021-05-04** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1061.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-10** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-20** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 30). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-07-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2278.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-07-08** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-07-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2021-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 110, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/752fb77f-dd00-4ffb-bdec-87c77656126f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).