Postsecondary education: admissions preference: descendants of slavery.

The document was reformatted from a traditional enrolled bill layout (with clerk signatures, chapter designation, and page numbers) to a web page rendering that includes site navigation, bill metadata, version history, and status information. No policy language was altered.

The definition of 'descendant of slavery' was substantially expanded. The original version simply required being a descendant of a chattel enslaved person based on lineage. The amended version requires establishing direct lineage to a specific person who, before 1900, was subjected to American chattel slavery AND meets at least one of five criteria: (1) emancipated through legal or extralegal means including self-purchase, manumission, legislative action, military service, or judicial ruling; (2) obtained freedom through gradual abolition statutes or constitutional amendments; (3) was classified as a fugitive from bondage under federal or state law; (4) was deemed contraband by military authorities; or (5) rendered military or civic service while subject to legal restrictions based on ancestry historically associated with slavery.

The bill was renumbered from Article 12, Section 66095 to Article 13, Section 66097 of the Education Code, likely to resolve a numbering conflict with another provision already occupying that space.