republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-576.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: apportionments: waiver of open course provisions: military personnel."
description: "Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the board of governors to appoint a chief executive officer, to be known as the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Existing law waives open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors for any governing board of a community college district for classes the district provides to inmates of certain facilities, and authorizes the board of governors to include the units of full-time equivalent students generated in those classes for purposes of state apportionments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 576"
citation: "California AB 576 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: apportionments: waiver of open course provisions: military personnel."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2021-02-11"
last_action: "2021-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d02b306-e6e9-442e-b656-aa79f26230c1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB576"
source_hash: "05238b3c7bdb5bb4c7e642465d6f46b8ddd1c4d20d6ff69a5aa621427adbf84c"
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 576 (20212022) — Community colleges: apportionments: waiver of open course provisions: military personnel.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the board of governors to appoint a chief executive officer, to be known as the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Existing law waives open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors for any governing board of a community college district for classes the district provides to inmates of certain facilities, and authorizes the board of governors to include the units of full-time equivalent students generated in those classes for purposes of state apportionments.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB576&version=20210AB57699INT)
2. **03/25/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB576&version=20210AB57698AMD)
3. **06/22/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB576&version=20210AB57697AMD)
4. **10/06/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB576&version=20210AB57695CHP)
5. **AB576** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB576)
6. **09/09/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB576&version=20210AB57696ENR)

## Votes

- AB 576 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 576 Maienschein Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB576 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2021-02-18** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1606.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-09** Referred to Coms. on ED. and M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-16** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2390.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2845.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2021-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 562, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d02b306-e6e9-442e-b656-aa79f26230c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).