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Bill	Postsecondary education: nonresident tuition: exemption.	Existing law exempts a student, except as specified, from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges if, among other conditions, the student has a total of 3 or more years of full-time attendance in certain California schools or attainment of equivalent credits earned while in those schools, as specified, or the student completes 3 or more years of full-time high school coursework in California and a total of 3 or more years of attendance in California elementary schools or California secondary schools, and, in the case of a person without lawful immigration status, has filed an affidavit with the institution of higher education stating that the student has filed an application to legalize the student's immigration status, or will file an application as soon as the student is eligible to do so.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1540	California AB 1540 (20232024)	bill	Postsecondary education exemption nonresident tuition	enacted	Mike Fong	6	24	8	2023-02-17	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/52dc8d83-69a7-4e95-95b2-09bb1c3bd0da	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1540	7c0c1337ac2ac83a06c2a22c590afd5d0b4d32574451d2c38baee18fd51cdd75	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1540 (20232024) — Postsecondary education: nonresident tuition: exemption.

Existing law exempts a student, except as specified, from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges if, among other conditions, the student has a total of 3 or more years of full-time attendance in certain California schools or attainment of equivalent credits earned while in those schools, as specified, or the student completes 3 or more years of full-time high school coursework in California and a total of 3 or more years of attendance in California elementary schools or California secondary schools, and, in the case of a person without lawful immigration status, has filed an affidavit with the institution of higher education stating that the student has filed an application to legalize the student's immigration status, or will file an application as soon as the student is eligible to do so.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/19/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1540 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1540 Mike Fong By Durazo — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1540 Mike Fong Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 70–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1540 Mike Fong Assembly Third Reading — 67–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mike Fong — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 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-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 1. Page 2046.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2023-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2454.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 3229.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 584, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52dc8d83-69a7-4e95-95b2-09bb1c3bd0da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).