republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-255.md

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Bill	Public postsecondary education: priority registration for first responders.	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 the state. Existing law requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority registration for enrollment to specified individuals, including, among others, a member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 255	California AB 255 (20232024)	bill	Public postsecondary education priority registration for first responders	enacted	Alanis	6	24	8	2023-01-19	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/8c5ba811-8f39-4227-90c6-a894c3af7571	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB255	31c8923566c03da29acfecd14e4c3f0405cd321cc4ab10ff0906ec40c26bec07	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 255 (20232024) — Public postsecondary education: priority registration for first responders.

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 the state. Existing law requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority registration for enrollment to specified individuals, including, among others, a member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/19/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB255 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 255 Alanis Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB255 Alanis et al. By Rubio — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 255 Alanis Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alanis — primary (person)
• Seyarto — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-01-20 From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
• 2023-02-02 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2023-03-15 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
• 2023-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1749.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2764.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3565.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 643, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8c5ba811-8f39-4227-90c6-a894c3af7571. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).