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 SB-1006 Student financial aid: Cal Grant B access costs award.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/12/2026 09:00 PM

SB1006:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 12, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1006

Introduced by Senator Padilla

February 09, 2026

 An act to amend Section 69435 of the Education Code, relating to student financial aid.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1006, as amended, Padilla.
 Student financial aid: Cal Grant B access costs award.

Existing law, the Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards, the Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Expanded Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Existing law establishes eligibility requirements for awards under the Cal Grant Program for participating students attending qualifying postsecondary educational institutions. Existing law limits an award for access costs, as defined, under the Cal Grant B Program to no more than $1,551, except as specified, but allows this amount to be adjusted in the annual Budget Act.

This bill, commencing with the 2027–28 award year, would instead require the award for
 access costs under the Cal Grant B program to be at least $1,600 the maximum per-student amount provided in the 2025–26 award year and include would require that award amount to be increased annually by the amount of the percentage increase, if any, in the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, as specified.

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 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.

 Section 69435 of the Education Code is amended to read:

69435.

 (a) (1) A Cal Grant B award shall be used only for tuition, student fees, and access costs in a for-credit instructional program that is not less than one academic year in length.

(2) The commission, or a qualifying institution pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 69450), shall award access grants in a student’s first academic year. In subsequent years, the award shall include an additional amount to pay tuition or fees, or both, to attend college at a public or private four-year college or university or other qualifying institution for all Cal Grant B awards pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 66021.2. In no event shall the total award in any
 year exceed the applicant’s calculated financial need.

(3) Not more than 2 percent of new Cal Grant B recipients enrolling for the first time in an institution of postsecondary education shall be eligible for payments for tuition or fees, or both, in their first academic year of attendance. The commission shall adopt regulations specifying the criteria used to determine which applicants, if any, receive both tuition and fees plus the access grant in the first year of enrollment. Priority shall be given to students with the lowest expected family contribution pursuant to Section 69432.7 and the highest level of academic merit.

(b) (1) Commencing with the 2027–28 award
 year, an award for access costs under this article shall adhere to both of the following:

(1)Be shall be in an annual amount of no less than one thousand six hundred dollars ($1,600) the maximum per-student amount provided in the 2025–26 award year or, if the recipient meets the
 qualifying criteria pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 69465, the amount of the award provided pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 69465), or or, if the recipient meets the qualifying criteria pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 69470, the amount of the award provided pursuant to Article 10 (commencing with Section 69470). These amounts may be adjusted in the annual Budget Act.

(2) Include The award amounts established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be increased annually by the amount of the
 percentage increase, if any, in the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers as calculated and certified by the co