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Bill	Public postsecondary education: course materials.	Existing law requires each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and requests each campus of the University of California, to clearly highlight the courses that exclusively use digital course materials, as specified, and clearly communicate to students that the course materials for these courses are free of charge and therefore not required to be purchased.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 607	California AB 607 (20232024)	bill	Public postsecondary education course materials	enacted	Kalra	6	24	8	2023-02-09	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/75abeb2b-8079-4f80-b689-974235745e7f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB607	f33b0b21646e5727fc7129783905be2f084bd1d4b20817a548b8db21ad691e3c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 607 (20232024) — Public postsecondary education: course materials.

Existing law requires each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and requests each campus of the University of California, to clearly highlight the courses that exclusively use digital course materials, as specified, and clearly communicate to students that the course materials for these courses are free of charge and therefore not required to be purchased.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB607 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB607 Kalra et al. By Newman — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 607 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 607 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kalra — primary (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 Coauthors revised.
• 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1991.) 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
• 2023-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-08-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2630.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3360.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 660, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75abeb2b-8079-4f80-b689-974235745e7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).