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Bill	California State University students: California Promise: Finish in Four and Through in Two.	Existing law establishes the California Promise, which requires at least 20 campuses of the California State University to establish a California Promise program by which the campus enters into a pledge with a qualifying transfer student to support the student in earning a baccalaureate degree within 2 academic years of the student's first year of enrollment to the campus, as provided. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1205	California AB 1205 (20232024)	bill	California Promise California State University students Finish in Four and Through in Two	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	8	33	9	2023-02-16	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/4265745e-fde9-4e76-8b51-9bcaaf8221a9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1205	b9f6d48b13827593dd2484354c20f625567e17cba48b487a7427e26765072a01	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1205 (20232024) — California State University students: California Promise: Finish in Four and Through in Two.

Existing law establishes the California Promise, which requires at least 20 campuses of the California State University to establish a California Promise program by which the campus enters into a pledge with a qualifying transfer student to support the student in earning a baccalaureate degree within 2 academic years of the student's first year of enrollment to the campus, as provided. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/28/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1205 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1205 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1205 Bauer-Kahan et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1205 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — 46–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
• Glazer — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2023-03-23 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2023-05-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 17. Page 1690.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-31 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (July 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-07-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2023-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-11 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hurtado.
• 2024-08-28 Joint Rules 61 and 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.)
• 2024-08-28 From inactive file.
• 2024-08-28 Ordered to second reading.
• 2024-08-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-28 Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2024-08-28 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2024-08-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 3.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 677, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4265745e-fde9-4e76-8b51-9bcaaf8221a9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).