Public postsecondary education: admission, transfer, and enrollment.

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Local educational agencies that comply with Section 60900(g)(3) and offer transcript-informed pupil accounts on CaliforniaColleges.edu are now mandated to participate in the CSU Direct Admission Program, rather than participation being voluntary as in the Senate version.

Senator Wahab was added as a coauthor of the bill.

All pupils in grade 12 enrolled in a participating local educational agency are hereby designated as applicants to the California State University for the purpose of making direct admissions offers. This is a new provision not present in the Senate version.

Direct admission eligibility criteria were broadened from being 'based on' coursework completed by end of grade 11 to 'include, but not be limited to' such coursework, allowing additional factors to be considered.

The deadline for transmitting direct admission letters changed from 'on or before September 1 of each year' to 'on or before the opening of the fall semester priority application filing period of each year,' tying the timing to the actual application window rather than a fixed calendar date.

The requirement that community college districts shall create an ADT based on a TMC made available by the chancellor's office was removed from Section 66749.85(c). The related provision in subdivision (d) was also changed from 'Once an ADT is created' to 'If an ADT is created,' reflecting that ADT creation is no longer mandated.

Header changed from enrolled bill format (with Senate/Assembly passage dates and blank Governor receipt fields) to chaptered law format with 'STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL,' Chapter 421 designation, and the approval date of October 6, 2025.

Page headers and footers changed from 'SB 640' to 'Ch. 421' throughout the document, and line wrapping was reformatted to fit the chaptered law layout.

Removed the entire provision (former Section 3, adding Education Code Section 66749.85) that would have required the California Community Colleges Chancellor's office to establish an intersegmental curriculum workgroup with CSU faculty to create no fewer than 5 new Transfer Model Curricula in fields with high opportunity for social mobility.

Removed the requirement that each CSU campus determine if it offers a baccalaureate degree similar to a new TMC-based ADT, and guarantee admission to that similar major with no more than 60 units remaining after transfer.

Section renumbering: the state mandates reimbursement provision moved from Section 4 to Section 3 following the removal of the former Section 3.

The definition of 'Committee' (referring to the Associate Degree for Transfer Intersegmental Implementation Committee under Section 66749.8) is removed from Section 66749.85, eliminating the bill's reliance on that existing committee structure.

Subsection (b) of new Section 66749.85 is corrected so that the 'office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges' (not 'the committee') is the entity required to establish the intersegmental curriculum workgroup with CSU and the Academic Senate.

Subsection (c) is corrected so that 'the workgroup' (not 'the committee workgroup') submits finalized TMCs to the Chancellor's office, and community college districts create ADTs based on those TMCs.

Subsection (d) is clarified to state that if an ADT is created by a community college district based on a TMC finalized and made available under subdivision (c), each CSU campus must determine similarity of its baccalaureate degrees to the TMC, guaranteeing admission in a similar major with no more than 60 units post-transfer.

Senator McGuire is added as a coauthor of the bill.

New amendment to Section 66744.1 extends the CSU dual admissions program from expiring after the 2025-26 academic year to running through the 2035-36 academic year, and changes the sunset date from January 1, 2027 to January 1, 2037.

The time frame for completing an ADT or established transfer course of study under the dual admissions agreement was extended from two academic years to three academic years at a California community college.

Direct admission eligibility is now explicitly based on coursework completed by the end of grade 11, including on-track completion of A-G courses and a qualifying A-G CSU grade point average.

California Community Colleges are now required to promote the dual admissions program by sharing information at new student orientation, sending an annual email to incoming fall students, posting on campus websites, and displaying information in counseling offices and transfer centers.

The California College Guidance Initiative is required to transmit a letter of direct admission, under the chancellor's signature, to each identified pupil by September 1 of each year, notifying them of their direct admission and describing enrollment procedures.

Upon implementation of transcript-informed pupil accounts for grades 9-12 on the CaliforniaColleges.edu platform, the reporting available on that platform must be used to provide data for determining program eligibility.

The program was renamed from 'Automatic Admission Program' to 'Automatic CSU Direct Admission Program' throughout the bill.

A new definition of 'Committee' was added referring to the Associate Degree for Transfer Intersegmental Implementation Committee, and the TMC creation language was revised to clarify that TMCs must not be related to existing ADTs.

A progress report is required by April 1, 2026, to be submitted to the Department of Finance and Legislature, including data on participating community colleges, support services provided, and student enrollment disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, Pell Grant status, and AB 540 status.

The annual deadline for participating agencies to identify eligible pupils/students was filled in as September 1 (previously left blank), and the participation notice deadline was clarified as February 1 of the prior academic year.

The CSU Direct Admission Program was renamed by removing the word 'Automatic' from its title throughout the bill.

Community college districts can no longer participate in the CSU Direct Admission Program. All references to CCD participation, identification of eligible students, and submission of lists were removed from Section 66209.

Community college students who complete an ADT or transfer core curriculum are no longer eligible for direct admission under Section 66209. The program now only covers pupils graduating from a high school of a participating local educational agency.

Students in the dual admissions program now have three academic years (instead of two) to complete an ADT or another established course of study for transfer at a California community college.

The duty to transmit the direct admission letter was shifted from participating local educational agencies (and formerly community college districts) to the California College Guidance Initiative acting on behalf of the CSU.

The dual admissions program under Section 66744.1 is extended from the 2025-26 academic year through the 2035-36 academic year, a ten-year extension.

The sunset date for Section 66744.1 was extended from January 1, 2027 to January 1, 2037.

Section 66749.85 clarifies that the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (not the committee) establishes the intersegmental curriculum workgroup to create no fewer than five TMCs not related to existing ADTs.