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California bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

California SB 308

Community colleges: audits: reports.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. To Governor
  6. Became law

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Summary

Official abstract published by the California legislature· summary

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt criteria and standards for periodic assessment of the fiscal condition of community college districts. In so doing, existing law requires the board of governors to develop, by regulation, appropriate procedures and actions for community college districts that fail to achieve fiscal stability or that fail to comply with the board of governors' recommendations, and to report to the chairs of the educational policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature, the Director of Finance, and the Governor, related corrective actions taken by the community college district and related actions taken against the community college district. This bill would instead require the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to report the above-described information, as needed, and to additionally report the information to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Beginning in the 2027–28 fiscal year, the bill would also require any information reported to be included with the below-described report related to community college district audits. Existing law requires the board of governors to annually submit a report to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee on the number and nature of audit exceptions and estimated amount of funds involved in the exceptions, a list of community college districts that failed to file their audits under existing law, and the actions taken by the State Department of Education to eliminate audit exceptions and comply with management improvement recommendations. This bill would revise the contents of the report to instead include actions taken by the chancellor's office to eliminate audit exceptions and comply with management improvement recommendations. The bill would instead require the chancellor's office to report that information, and to additionally report that information to the educational policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature, the Director of Finance, and the Governor. Beginning in the 2027–28 fiscal year, the bill would also require the report to include any of the above-described information related to corrective actions taken by, and actions taken against, a community college district.

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Roll-call votes

State vote data last updated Oct 15, 2026, 4:19 PM.

DateVoteResultYour legislators
Aug 18, 2026
Senate		Unfinished Business SB308 Seyarto et al. ConcurrencepassSet your home in California to see
Aug 13, 2026
House		SB 308 Seyarto Senate Third Reading By PatelpassSet your home in California to see
Jun 24, 2026
House		Do pass as amended.passSet your home in California to see
Jun 9, 2026
House		Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent CalendarpassSet your home in California to see
Jan 26, 2026
Senate		Consent Calendar 2ndpassSet your home in California to see
Jan 14, 2026
Senate		Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent CalendarpassSet your home in California to see

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