Overnight parking bill to help homeless college students in California falls short

A measure that would have required California Community Colleges to allow students to sleep overnight on campus in their cars failed to clear the Senate Appropriations Committee Friday following fierce opposition from college and finance officials.

The decision, which came as part of the committee’s day of wholesale up or down votes on hundreds of bills in its so-called suspense file, means the overnight parking bill will not pass this legislative session.

What happened: Assembly Bill 90, authored by Assemblymember Corey Jackson, would have required each of the community college system’s 73 districts to put overnight parking programs in place by 2027. Jackson, a progressive Democrat from Southern California, framed the measure as a “worst case scenario” to help address California’s housing crisis and its impact on college students.

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