Legislative Update

Legislative Update

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March 8, 2024

Assembly Higher Education Committee Preview

Next Tuesday, March 12, 2024, the Assembly Higher Education Committee, chaired by Assemblymember Mike Fong (D-Alhambra), will hold its first hearing to consider bills introduced in 2024. The committee has nine bills slated for its agenda next week, including the following:

  • Assembly Bill (AB) 1793 (Ta, R-Westminster) would extend Cal Grant and Middle Class Scholarship Program eligibility to a student who was not a resident of California at the time of high school graduation but meets all other applicable eligibility requirements and is a dependent of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States stationed outside of California on active duty but otherwise maintains their residence in California.

  • AB 1818 (Jackson, D-Moreno Valley) would require campuses of the California Community Colleges (CCC) and California State University (CSU) to allow overnight parking by a
    student attending its campus if the student uses the vehicle as housing, has a valid parking permit issued by the campus, and is parked in or on a campus-owned and controlled parking lot.
    • ACCCA has an oppose position on this bill.

  • AB 1839 (Alanis, R-Modesto) would, subject to an appropriation, establish the Law Enforcement Officer Grant Program to provide grants of up to $6,000 per year to individuals enrolled in a modern policing degree program at a CCC who commit to work for four years as a peace officer at a law enforcement agency.

  • AB 1841 (Weber, D-San Deigo) would require community college districts and the CSU to require each university or college-affiliated student-housing facility to stock federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication and train all residential staff members at each university or college-affiliated student-housing facility on the administration of the opioid overdose reversal medication.

  • AB 1885 (Addis, D-Morro Bay) would require each participating community college in the Student Success Completion Grant Program to award $1,298 per semester (or the quarterly equivalent) to eligible students who enroll in nine or more units per semester (or the quarterly equivalent number of units) who are considered full-time as part of a disabled student programs and services Academic Accommodation Plan.
    • The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) is sponsoring this bill.
  • AB 1891 (Weber, D-La Mesa) would, until January 1, 2030, authorize the usage of a multicriteria screening process, a random selection process, or a blended combination of the two for admission decisions in allied health programs.
    • The CCCCO is sponsoring this bill.
  • AB 1914 (Grayson, D-Concord) would require the CCCCO to develop a model curriculum for a certification program for providers of care for individuals with developmental disabilities, designed to be offered at community college campuses where there is sufficient student interest and a properly qualified faculty to sustain a certification program.

  • AB 2019 (Fong, R-Bakersfield) would expand the definition of early and middle college high schools to include early and middle college programs so students can qualify for reduced instructional minute requirements and would extend the reduction in instructional minutes to include students in courses under a Career and College Access Pathways agreement.


The deadline for bills with any fiscal implications to clear the first house policy committees is April 26, 2024, while the deadline for nonfiscal bills is May 3, 2024. This means that policy committees will be ramping up over the next month and a half in order to meet this critical deadline.

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