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Education Code § 70046

ARTICLE 24. California Ban on Scholarship Displacement Act of 2021

Current as of September 28, 2026Ed. Code, § 70046Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 925, Sec. 1. (AB 288) Effective January 1, 2023.

The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:

(a) As of 2020, California students who have financial need and receive private scholarships are unable to make full use of the awards provided to them by private scholarship providers because institutions of higher education reduce their gift aid, grants, scholarships, tuition waivers, and fellowship stipends that those students would otherwise be qualified to receive. The reduction of an institution’s financial aid due to private scholarships is referred to as “scholarship displacement.”

(b) This act is intended to ensure that private scholarships supplement, and do not supplant, gift aid, grants, scholarships, tuition waivers, and fellowship stipends provided by institutions of higher education to California students who have financial need.