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 02/19/26 - Introduced

 SB-1255 Postsecondary education: Designation of California Hispanic-Serving Institutions.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/25/2026 09:00 PM

SB1255:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 25, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 14, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 06, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1255

Introduced by Senator Reyes
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Fong)
(Coauthors: Senators Gonzalez, Pérez, and Umberg)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Celeste Rodriguez and Sharp-Collins)

February 19, 2026

 An act to add Article 7.7 (commencing with Section 66078) to Chapter 2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1255, as amended, Reyes.
 Postsecondary education: Designation of California Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and independent institutions of higher education, as defined, as 4 segments of postsecondary education in the state.

This bill, upon appropriation, would establish the Designation of California Hispanic-Serving Institutions to recognize campuses of those segments of postsecondary education that excel at providing academic resources to Latino students. The bill, upon appropriation, would establish a Designation of California Hispanic-Serving Institutions governing board to designate
 colleges and universities as California Hispanic-Serving Institutions. The bill, upon appropriation, would designate the office of the Chancellor of the California State University as the managing entity and would require it to, among other duties, develop the application processes and to process and present initial and renewal applications to receive this designation to the governing board, as specified, and would make an initial and renewal designation valid for 5 years.

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.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Supporting Latino students attending postsecondary educational institutions in California serves the interests of California’s economic growth.

(b) Throughout the early and mid-20th century, Mexican American and other Latino students were routinely subjected to de facto school segregation, including separate “Mexican schools,” particularly in southern and central California, which prevented access to postsecondary education.

(c) In the landmark Mendez v.
 Westminster School Dist. of Orange County (S.D. Cal. 1946) 64 F.Supp. 544, affd. Westminster
 School Dist. of Orange County v. Mendez (9th Cir. 1947) 161 F.2d 774 (Mendez v. Westminster), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that segregation of Mexican American students in California public schools was unconstitutional.

(d) The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Mendez v. Westminster established legal and evidentiary groundwork that influenced the United States Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark Brown v. Board of Ed. of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. (1954) 347 U.S. 483 (Brown v. Board of Education), which declared racial segregation in public education unconstitutional nationwide.

(e) Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 2000d, et seq.) continues to advance access and equality in education by prohibiting any person,
 on the ground of race, color, or national origin, from being excluded from participation in, being denied the benefits of, or being subject to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

(f) The federal Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program was created in 1992 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1101 et seq.) to recognize colleges