Relative to the federal Pell Grant Program.
Summary
Existing federal law establishes the federal Pell Grant Program under Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide need-based grant awards to low-income students in order to promote access to postsecondary education. This measure would respectfully request the Congress and the President of the United States to immediately take action to increase the maximum annual amount of the federal Pell Grant Program award from $6,195 to at least $7,500 to further help low-income college students alleviate the burden of postsecondary education debt.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Apr 2019
Assembly Passage
Mar 2019
Senate Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Jun 2019
Introduced Jan 7, 2019
Signed Jun 25, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jun 17, 2019 · Assembly Jun 20, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Jun 17, 2019
D
Democratic26
100% Yea
R
Republican8
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
7
Committee
4
Amendments
7
Jun 25, 2019
Introduced
Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
legislature
Jun 20, 2019
Assembly · Passed
Assembly Vote: pass (71-0)
assembly
Jun 20, 2019
Lower · Passed
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2366.).
lower
Jun 18, 2019
Introduced
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
lower
Jun 17, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Jun 17, 2019
Upper · Passed
Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1607.)
upper
Jun 11, 2019
Introduced
Amended. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
upper
Jun 10, 2019
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and be adopted as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5).
upper
Apr 3, 2019
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
upper
Mar 25, 2019
Lower · Passed
Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 815.)
lower
Mar 20, 2019
Lower · Passed
From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 19).
lower
Mar 11, 2019
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
lower
Mar 7, 2019
Introduced
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Amended.
lower
Jan 28, 2019
Committee
Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
lower
Jan 7, 2019
Introduced
Introduced. To print.
lower
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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