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 ACR-40 Student financial aid: Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) data.(2025-2026)

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ACR40:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 June 03, 2025

 Corrected
 June 04, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Concurrent Resolution

No. 40

Introduced by Assembly Members Fong and Celeste Rodriguez
(Principal coauthor: Senator Cervantes)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Aguiar-Curry, Carrillo, Mark González, Haney, Kalra, Lee, Muratsuchi, Ortega, and Solache) Solache, Addis, Ahrens, Alvarez, Arambula,
 Ávila Farías, Bains, Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Berman, Boerner, Bonta, Bryan, Calderon, Caloza, Connolly, Davies, Elhawary, Gabriel, Garcia, Gipson, Harabedian, Hart, Irwin, Jackson, Krell, Lowenthal, McKinnor, Nguyen, Pacheco, Papan, Patel, Pellerin, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Ransom, Rivas, Michelle Rodriguez, Rogers, Blanca Rubio, Schiavo, Schultz, Sharp-Collins,
 Soria, Stefani, Valencia, Ward, Wicks, Wilson, and Zbur)
(Coauthors: Senators Durazo, Gonzalez, Grayson, and Rubio)

February 21, 2025

 Relative to student financial aid. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

ACR 40, as introduced, Fong.
 Student financial aid: Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) data.

This measure would state, among other things, the Legislature and the State of California’s commitment to protecting, to the fullest extent of the law, all the data and information provided by students and their families to California’s postsecondary education.

Digest Key

 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 

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WHEREAS, President Trump’s administration has indicated its intent to declare a national emergency to address illegal immigration through a mass deportation program; and

WHEREAS, The Governor of California has called for and this Legislature has convened a special legislative session to fund the legal defense against federal policies that conflict with state law and infringe upon the civil rights of Californians; and

WHEREAS, California is home to more foreign-born residents than anywhere else in the country, with almost one in three Californians being foreign born and one in two Californian children having at least one immigrant parent, and immigrants play a vital role in all sectors of our state’s economy and are valuable and essential members of the California community; and

WHEREAS, 3,300,000 Californians live in mixed-status households. For financial aid purposes, mixed-status families are those in which the student is a United States citizen or eligible noncitizen and the student’s parent or spouse does not have a social security number; and 

WHEREAS, California students have expressed reluctance in filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the primary form used by more than 2,000,000 Californians annually to access state and federal financial aid, over fear that federal authorities will use the newly required self-reported information provided on the application to pursue deportation efforts against them and their parents; and

WHEREAS, In the 2024–25 application cycle, FAFSA applications declined significantly due to technical difficulties and concerns of how new self-reported information by applicants and their parents or spouse would be used, preventing many students from receiving aid and completing their higher education; and

WHEREAS, Deportation and other interruptions in higher education seriously affect college completion, student success, economic mobility, and contributions to California’s economy and society, and higher education has demonstrably improved the lives of individuals and communities through workforce development and innovation contributing to the economy of the state and country; and

WHEREAS, The federal Privacy Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-579, as amended) prohibits the disclosure of an individual’s data from a system of records without written or verbal consent, and the landmark 1982 United States Supreme Court decision, Plyler v. Doe (1982) 457 U.S. 202, held that states cannot constitutionally deny students a free public education based on immigration status; and

WHEREAS, California law declares that the attainment of education for the betterment of the individual and the community is paramount regardless of o