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 04/27/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 AB-2660 Public postsecondary education: intersegmental partnerships: STEM education.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/24/2026 09:00 PM

AB2660:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 24, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 27, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2660

Introduced by Assembly Member Alvarez
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Alanis, Pellerin, and Schiavo)
(Coauthors: Senators Allen, Grayson, and Wahab)

February 20, 2026

An act to add Article 4.95 (commencing with Section 66048) to Chapter 2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2660, as amended, Alvarez.
 Public postsecondary education: intersegmental partnerships: STEM education.

The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth the missions and functions of California’s public segments of higher education and their respective institutions of higher education. The California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California are the 3 public segments of postsecondary education in the state. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California act, by appropriate resolution, to make them applicable.

This bill would establish the Cal-Bridge Program as a fully intersegmental partnership program between the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to create a pathway that promotes the advancement of California’s diverse undergraduate public postsecondary student
 population who major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to pursue STEM doctors of philosophy (PhDs) and become members of California’s professorate or leaders in California’s technology industry. The bill would specify the goals of the Cal-Bridge Program, including, among others, preparing students to apply to PhD programs in STEM disciplines, as specified. The bill would include 5 Cal-Bridge subprograms to provide resources, research opportunities, and financial support to qualifying public postsecondary undergraduate, PhD, and postdoctoral STEM scholars. The bill would also establish the ENLACE Program as an operationally independent program that works in collaboration with the Cal-Bridge Program to create pathways that prepare California’s high school and college students for all levels of postsecondary STEM education and the state’s STEM workforce, as specified. The bill would require the ENLACE Program to consist of the ENLACE High School and Undergraduate Program to
 provide support to qualifying students in high school and undergraduate studies across all STEM disciplines at public postsecondary educational institutions, as specified. The bill would authorize funding appropriated for purposes of the Cal-Bridge Program or the ENLACE Program to be used for specified activities. The bill would require the Cal-Bridge Program to submit an annual programmatic progress report to the office of the President of the University of California that includes data on implementation of the Cal-Bridge Program’s activities and the allocation of funding for those activities, as specified. The bill would apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make it applicable.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Article 4.95 (commencing with Section 66048) is added to Chapter 2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read:

 Article
 4.95. The Cal-Bridge Program and the ENLACE Program

66048.

 This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Cal-Bridge Program and the ENLACE Program.

66048.1.

 For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Cal-Bridge Program” means the statewide program established pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 66048.3.

(b) “ENLACE Program” m