This measure would acknowledge the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the State of California who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and the legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination. The measure would affirm the State of California's role in protecting the descendants of enslaved people as well as their civil, political, and socio-cultural rights.
Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for the administration of state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. If the federal Free Application for Federal Student Aid is not available on or before October 1, 2023, existing law extends the application deadline for financial aid programs administered by the commission to April 2, 2024, for the 2024–25 award year only. This bill would extend the April 2, 2024, application deadline for financial aid programs administered by the commission by one month. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.