republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-194.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public postsecondary education: priority enrollment: foster youth."
description: "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 for registration for enrollment to any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined, for any academic term attended at one of these institutions within 2 years of leaving active duty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 194"
citation: "California AB 194 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public postsecondary education: priority enrollment: foster youth."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2011-01-27"
last_action: "2011-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b56023f9-98aa-4936-b79f-c017ab94fffa"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194"
source_hash: "8b68ec88633f79e303ab84737ebc4f76f14ff8135de49e2d73c61bdaaccc61c1"
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 194 (20112012) — Public postsecondary education: priority enrollment: foster youth.

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 for registration for enrollment to any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined, for any academic term attended at one of these institutions within 2 years of leaving active duty.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/27/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194&version=20110AB19499INT)
2. **03/08/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194&version=20110AB19498AMD)
3. **03/24/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194&version=20110AB19497AMD)
4. **05/31/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194&version=20110AB19496AMD)
5. **06/16/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194&version=20110AB19495AMD)
6. **08/30/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194&version=20110AB19494AMD)
7. **10/04/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194&version=20110AB19492CHP)
8. **AB194** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194)
9. **09/09/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB194&version=20110AB19493ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **13–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 194 BEALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–10** (pass) · lower
- AB 194 BEALL Assembly Third Reading — **66–7** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB194 Beall By Hancock — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **8–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)
- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
- Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Brownley — coauthor (person)
- Furutani — coauthor (person)
- Gordon — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Jeffries — coauthor (person)
- Lara — coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Swanson — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-27** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-28** From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
- **2011-02-10** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (April 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 7. Page 908.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-04-25** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-27** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2011-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (August 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 2197.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-09-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 10. Page 2900.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2011-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 458, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b56023f9-98aa-4936-b79f-c017ab94fffa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).