All Roll Calls
Yes: 140 • No: 0
CaliforniaSB 6192025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Public postsecondary education.
Sponsored By: Sponsor information unavailable
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Clear associate-degree rules for CSU transfer
If you earn an Associate Degree for Transfer, complete 60 semester units (or 90 quarter), at least 18 major units aligned to a transfer model, and keep a 2.0 GPA, you are CSU‑eligible. Beginning fall 2025–26, your required units include the California General Education Transfer Curriculum, unless you were already placed on IGETC or CSU GE‑Breadth. Community colleges must create these transfer degrees for majors with an approved model and may not add extra local requirements. The system expands and updates transfer model curricula on set timelines. A past 2010 waiver process governed how some district funding conditions applied.
Faster CSU transfer with guarantees
CSU sets a common lower‑division transfer plan of at least 45 semester units for high‑demand majors. Campuses may add required lower‑division courses, but the total of systemwide plus campus rules cannot exceed 60 units. CSU and community colleges map which CCC courses meet these requirements. As space allows, CSU offers transfer admission agreements you sign before 45 units; you must complete 60 transfer‑eligible units, declare the major, finish systemwide and any campus rules, and meet impaction criteria. If admitted under these rules, CSU must let you finish in the minimum remaining units for your major and gives top priority to qualified transfers. CSU also encourages you to choose a destination campus before 45 units to plan your courses.
Training and support for resource families
State community colleges use dedicated funds only for resource family education and training. Each college that takes this money must, with the county child welfare agency, run a plan with training to support foster homes caring for up to six children with special mental, emotional, developmental, or physical needs. The program uses the same “resource family” definition as child welfare law. The Department of Social Services helps counties join the program. Districts that accept the funds must follow the Chancellor’s reporting and program rules.
Uniform AP credit at community colleges
The system uses one AP credit policy. You get course credit when your AP exam matches a college course, and colleges must post the policy online. If the systemwide policy was not ready for students entering fall 2017, colleges use CSU’s AP policy starting in 2017–18. Credit can count toward the Cal‑GE Transfer Curriculum or local general education, and the policy is reviewed for alignment.
Rules for high schoolers taking college classes
Your school board may let eligible high school students take community college classes with a principal’s recommendation and parent consent. Students earn credit, and colleges must send grades through eTranscript California so courses show on CaliforniaColleges.edu. For summer classes, a principal may recommend a student only if the student is prepared and cannot take an equivalent course at the high school, and no more than 5% of students per grade may be recommended; physical education counts under the cap. Students in approved CCAP programs serving mostly unduplicated pupils, in UC‑transferable lower‑division GE or priority occupational courses, do not count toward the 5% cap when the principal supplies required data. If a highly gifted student is denied, the board must give written reasons within 60 days at the next regular meeting at least 30 days after the request. Agencies cannot waive these summer‑session limits, and the system cannot claim budget growth from the CCAP exemption.
Clearer UC transfer course mapping
Beginning January 1, 2008, the Community Colleges Chancellor, with the Academic Senate, helps align lower‑division CCC courses to UC transfer‑path requirements for each major. This makes it clearer which CCC courses prepare you for UC transfer.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
There is no primary sponsor on record.
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 7/10/2025
Item 83 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 72 • No: 0
legislature vote • 7/2/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 14 • No: 0
legislature vote • 6/24/2025
Vote in CX09
Yes: 10 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/24/2025
Item 108 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 37 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/9/2025
Vote in CS44
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 74, Statutes of 2025.
7/28/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
7/28/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
7/15/2025legislatureIn Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
7/10/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2509.) Ordered to the Senate.
7/10/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
7/3/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2).
7/2/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
6/25/2025HouseReferred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
5/12/2025HouseIn Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
4/24/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 887.) Ordered to the Assembly.
4/24/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
4/22/2025SenateFrom committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
4/21/2025SenateSet for hearing April 21.
4/10/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 736.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
4/9/2025SenateFrom committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
4/1/2025SenateSet for hearing April 9.
3/28/2025SenateReferred to Com. on ED.
3/5/2025SenateFrom printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2/21/2025SenateIntroduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
2/20/2025Senate
Bill Text
Chaptered
7/28/2025
Enrolled
7/11/2025
Amended Senate
4/1/2025
Introduced
2/20/2025