republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ajr-13.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to postsecondary education."
description: "This measure would request the Congress of the United States to pass, and the President of the United States to sign, the Upskilling and Retraining Assistance Act and the Upward Mobility Enhancement Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AJR 13"
citation: "California AJR 13 (20232024)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Tuition assistance programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-21"
last_action: "2024-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40f52cb6-c5b5-4635-84d8-bfdfbe084e7f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR13"
source_hash: "90f4548da142ba5e768c7c89b7c729ce5239e6d064f6863b33cb595d57fc9eaa"
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 AJR 13 (20232024) — Relative to postsecondary education.

This measure would request the Congress of the United States to pass, and the President of the United States to sign, the Upskilling and Retraining Assistance Act and the Upward Mobility Enhancement Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/21/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR13&version=20230AJR1399INT)
2. **07/18/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR13&version=20230AJR1397CHP)
3. **AJR13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR13)
4. **07/10/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR13&version=20230AJR1398ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AJR13 Santiago et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AJR 13 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Santiago — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-03-22** From printer.
- **2024-04-08** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2024-05-28** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-05-28** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 5688.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-05-29** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2024-06-05** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-07-03** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4931.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-07-05** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-07-18** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3 p.m.
- **2024-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 158, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40f52cb6-c5b5-4635-84d8-bfdfbe084e7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).