republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-108.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education."
description: "Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district to charge each student a fee, and sets that fee at $36 per unit per semester. Existing law requires this fee to be raised to $46 per unit per semester, effective with the fall term of the 2011–12 academic year, if a provision of the Budget Act of 2011 becomes operative that requires the Director of Finance to reduce specified appropriations if he or she determines that the higher of 2 specified state revenue forecasts does not meet one or both of certain thresholds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 108"
citation: "California AB 108 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Education."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-01-10"
last_action: "2011-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/473c2e44-fbc8-4b6d-83fa-c39bcffee778"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB108"
source_hash: "0f85f9d7f74476c4360cb784f8aed902c29e424e8d62d70f1624977c5ffd59c6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 108 (20112012) — Education.

Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district to charge each student a fee, and sets that fee at $36 per unit per semester. Existing law requires this fee to be raised to $46 per unit per semester, effective with the fall term of the 2011–12 academic year, if a provision of the Budget Act of 2011 becomes operative that requires the Director of Finance to reduce specified appropriations if he or she determines that the higher of 2 specified state revenue forecasts does not meet one or both of certain thresholds.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB108&version=20110AB10899INT)
2. **03/14/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB108&version=20110AB10898AMD)
3. **06/28/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB108&version=20110AB10897AMD)
4. **07/07/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB108&version=20110AB10896AMD)
5. **07/26/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB108&version=20110AB10894CHP)
6. **AB108** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB108)
7. **07/14/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB108&version=20110AB10895ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB108 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **23–15** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–5** (pass) · upper
- AB 108 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **49–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 108 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **50–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2011-02-18** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-02-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 0. Page 419.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-02-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-03-07** Ordered to second reading.
- **2011-03-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-14** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (March 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-16** Ordered to third reading.
- **2011-06-28** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-28** Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1, Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Page 1613.)
- **2011-06-28** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Ayes 21. Noes 14. Page 1613.)
- **2011-06-28** Ordered to third reading.
- **2011-07-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-11** Per Joint Rule 33.1, Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Page 1780.)
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 1842.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-07-14** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2349.)
- **2011-07-14** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 2349.)
- **2011-07-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 2349.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:15 p.m.
- **2011-07-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 135, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/473c2e44-fbc8-4b6d-83fa-c39bcffee778`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).