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AB-90 • 2026

Public postsecondary education: overnight student parking.

Public postsecondary education: overnight student parking.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Jackson
Last action
2025-08-29
Official status
In committee: Held under submission.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact date when districts need to decide on establishing the program.

Overnight Student Parking at Community Colleges

This law requires community college districts in California to create a plan that allows eligible students to park their cars overnight on campus for free, with certain conditions and reporting requirements.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires each community college district to make a plan for an overnight parking program for eligible students.
  • The plan must include procedures for issuing free permits to eligible students.
  • Districts need to consult basic needs coordinators and campus security when making the plan.
  • Campuses are not responsible if something bad happens to a student in the overnight parking area, as long as they acted reasonably.
  • Requires community colleges to report information about participating students' backgrounds to the Chancellor's office.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Community college districts and their governing boards
  • Eligible students who can park overnight on campus

Terms To Know

Basic needs coordinators
People at the colleges who help students with basic necessities like food, housing, and transportation.
State-mandated local program
A program that requires local governments or school districts to do something new, which might cost them money.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify who is eligible for the overnight parking program.
  • It's unclear how much it will cost and if there will be state reimbursement for these costs.

Bill History

  1. 2025-08-29 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Held under submission.

  2. 2025-08-18 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

  3. 2025-07-16 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  4. 2025-07-08 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  5. 2025-07-07 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (July 2).

  6. 2025-06-19 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.

  7. 2025-06-18 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.

  8. 2025-06-04 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  9. 2025-06-03 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 14. Page 2000.)

  10. 2025-05-27 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  11. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  12. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 23).

  13. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)

  14. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  15. 2025-03-24 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. 2025-03-20 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended.

  17. 2025-03-19 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 18).

  18. 2025-02-03 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.

  19. 2025-01-07 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.

  20. 2025-01-06 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 90, as amended, Jackson.
Public postsecondary education: overnight student parking.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one segment of public postsecondary education in the state. Under existing law, the board of governors appoints a chief executive officer, who is known as the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state and authorizes these districts to provide instruction at the community college campuses they operate and maintain. Existing law requests the campuses of the California Community Colleges to give priority housing to current and former homeless youth and current and former foster youth, as specified.
This bill would require the governing board of each community college district to adopt a plan to offer an overnight
parking program to eligible students, as defined, and would require the plan to be developed in consultation with basic needs coordinators and campus security, as specified. The bill would require the plan to include, among other things, a procedure for issuing an overnight parking permit at no cost to students. The bill would impose duties on basic needs coordinators related to the community college programs, including when acceptance of applications from eligible students would begin. The bill would require the governing board of each community college district, on or before December 31, 2026, to vote to
establish
determine if the community colleges within the district will establish
an overnight parking program that aligns with the
plan except, if the governing board does not vote to establish the program, the bill would require the governing board to annually vote on whether to
establish an overnight program plan until it votes to establish the program.
plan.
This bill would provide that a campus is not civilly liable for a campus employee’s good faith act or omission that fails to prevent an injury to a participating student that occurs in, or in close proximity to, and during the hours of operation of, overnight parking, as provided.
This bill would require campuses to report to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges certain information, including, among other information, the socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds of participating students, as specified. The bill would additionally require the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to report to the Legislature and the Governor on the campus programs, as provided. The bill would
require these reports to be included as part of a specified report related to basic needs services and resources.
To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

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