republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-515.md

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Bill	Local government: collection of demographic data.	Existing law requires the State Controller's Office, to the extent the office has completed the functionality necessary, and the Department of Human Resources, when collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians hired into state employment, to use additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 515	California SB 515 (20252026)	bill	Localgovernment collectionofdemographicdata	enacted	Richardson	6	24	7	2025-02-19	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/942a6503-1546-4e83-82fd-f830ad36468e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB515	adc45263e6c2877055490be1ea519484892e7de3dfd467b407af1246b6a8cb48	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 515 (20252026) — Local government: collection of demographic data.

Existing law requires the State Controller's Office, to the extent the office has completed the functionality necessary, and the Department of Human Resources, when collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians hired into state employment, to use additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB515 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 515 Richardson Senate Third Reading By Ransom — 61–15 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 28–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Richardson — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-02-19 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2025-02-26 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2025-03-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 637.) (April 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2025-04-21 April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1203.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1335.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 July 16 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 15. Page 3315.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 768, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/942a6503-1546-4e83-82fd-f830ad36468e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).