republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-602.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public postsecondary education: student behavior: drug and alcohol use: rehabilitation programs."
description: "Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California as the public segments of postsecondary education in the state. Existing law requires the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, and the governing board of every community college district to adopt or provide for the adoption of specific rules and regulations governing student behavior and to adopt procedures by which all students are informed of the rules and regulations, with applicable penalties, as provided. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make a provision applicable."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 602"
citation: "California AB 602 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Publicpostsecondaryeducation", "drugandalcoholuse", "rehabilitationprograms", "studentbehavior"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haney"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01c5b179-f822-4a3a-8995-d4d5c41417eb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602"
source_hash: "da1ffcc153bbc9ab8b0f077fdd98e320f19125e4b6facb687b2f6d5d68c71849"
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 602 (20252026) — Public postsecondary education: student behavior: drug and alcohol use: rehabilitation programs.

Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California as the public segments of postsecondary education in the state. Existing law requires the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, and the governing board of every community college district to adopt or provide for the adoption of specific rules and regulations governing student behavior and to adopt procedures by which all students are informed of the rules and regulations, with applicable penalties, as provided. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make a provision applicable.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602&version=20250AB60299INT)
2. **03/13/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602&version=20250AB60298AMD)
3. **05/01/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602&version=20250AB60297AMD)
4. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602&version=20250AB60296AMD)
5. **06/16/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602&version=20250AB60295AMD)
6. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602&version=20250AB60293CHP)
7. **AB602** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602)
8. **09/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB602&version=20250AB60294ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 602 Haney Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **60–12** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 602 Haney Assembly Third Reading — **59–13** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB602 Haney By Weber Pierson — **32–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 13. Page 1903.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-07-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 2426.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-04** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 12. Page 2916.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 159, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01c5b179-f822-4a3a-8995-d4d5c41417eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).