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Bill	Private postsecondary education: California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.	Existing law, the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, provides for the regulation of private postsecondary educational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act applies to private entities with a physical presence in the state that offer postsecondary education, as defined in the act, to the public for an institutional charge, but exempts certain institutions from its application, including certain institutions that offer continuing education, which is also defined in the act, and other institutions that offer educational programs to members of a trade or fraternal organization that sponsor the educational programs. The act requires the bureau to adopt by regulation minimum operating standards for institutions that are subject to the act's provisions, including a standard that requires accreditation for degree-granting institutions. The act requires an institution to obtain bureau approval before making certain substantive changes to its operations. The act authorizes the bureau to suspend, revoke, or place on probation an institution's approval to operate for violations of the act that result in actual student harm. The act is repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2022.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 802	California SB 802 (20212022)	bill appropriation	Private postsecondary education: California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.	enacted	Roth	7	34	10	2021-02-19	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/f590b86a-bc0d-4ac9-91c9-60e42357d97c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB802	24e9bf18fc5a6d15a1eede03f3c83266dd2554a35a632fa6f396fe81e645e8c5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 802 (20212022) — Private postsecondary education: California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.

Existing law, the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, provides for the regulation of private postsecondary educational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act applies to private entities with a physical presence in the state that offer postsecondary education, as defined in the act, to the public for an institutional charge, but exempts certain institutions from its application, including certain institutions that offer continuing education, which is also defined in the act, and other institutions that offer educational programs to members of a trade or fraternal organization that sponsor the educational programs. The act requires the bureau to adopt by regulation minimum operating standards for institutions that are subject to the act's provisions, including a standard that requires accreditation for degree-granting institutions. The act requires an institution to obtain bureau approval before making certain substantive changes to its operations. The act authorizes the bureau to suspend, revoke, or place on probation an institution's approval to operate for violations of the act that result in actual student harm. The act is repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2022.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/13/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB802 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB802 Roth Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 802 Roth Senate Third Reading By Low — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Roth — 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 B., P. & E.D. and ED. referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2021-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 841.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on ED. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-23 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2021-05-04 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 955.) (April 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 Set for hearing May 17.
• 2021-05-17 May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-18 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1205.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1276.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3125.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2623.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 552, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f590b86a-bc0d-4ac9-91c9-60e42357d97c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).