IMPORTANT ACTION STEPS
Week of April 19th and April 20th for 4 Bills
SB 1464, AB 2098, AB 1797, SB 1100
All hands on deck. We continue to have success defeating the bad bills in CA. There are three targeted actions you can take this week. If possible, we encourage you to do all three. Email, Call, and Attend in Person. Detailed instructions below. Thank you for answering our call.
Call
Make their phones ring ‘off the hook’. Call all day Monday April 18th: ask them to vote “NO” or “Abstain” on AB 2098, SB1100, AB 1797. Call in your opposition to both District and Capitol Committee Member Offices on Monday April 18th and Tuesday April 19th. Each bill is listed with phone list for the committee members assigned to its hearing.
AB 2098 Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct (Low)
Phone list here: Assembly Business and Professions Committee Members
This bill would designate the dissemination or promotion of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or “COVID-19,” by a physician or surgeon as unprofessional conduct, allowing the Medical Board to take action against these doctors.
AB 2098 - Assembly Business and Professions Committee hearing Tuesday April 19th at 9am.
SB-1100 Open meetings: orderly conduct. (Cortese)
Phone list here: Senate Judiciary Committee Member Phone List.
SB1100 allows the members of a legislative body to remove individuals who willfully interrupt or disrupt their meeting.
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday April 19th at 1:30pm.
AB 1797 Development of a state immunization registry (Weber)
Phone list here: Assembly Health Committee Members Phone List
AB 1797 would merge the three CA Immunization Registry tracking systems to create one statewide system and all vaccines will be required to be entered into the CA Immunization Registry (CAIR). Schools and other entities would have access to all vaccine records, including adults.
Assembly Health Committee hearing Tuesday April 19th at 1:30 pm.
SB 1464 Law Enforcement of public health orders (PAN)***
Call all day Monday April 18th AND Tuesday April 19th.
Phone list here: Senate Health Committee Member Phone List.
This bill would instead require those sheriffs and peace officers to enforce the public health orders. The bill would additionally prohibit state funds from being provided to any law enforcement agency that publicly announces that they will oppose, or adopts a policy to oppose, a public health order. If funds are withheld, those funds would instead be reallocated to the county public health department of the county in which the law enforcement agency operates for public health purposes.
Senate Health Committee hearing April 20th at 1:00 pm.
The deadlines to submit your opposition letter through the Legislative Portal to for the bill analysis has passed for AB 2098, SB 1100, AB 1797, and SB 1464.
To make an impact, you must email your opposition directly to Committee Members now until hearing dates April 19th and 20th.
Click on all three links below for an easy one step email to all committee members.
AB 1797 - Email the Assembly Health Committee Members. https://secure.everyaction.com/qZSmetPckU-t_iQHhYCZCQ2
AB 2098 - Email the Assembly Business and Professions Committee Members. https://secure.everyaction.com/XdxB1leoFEaTQpqUz5ryjQ2
SB 1464 – Email the Senate Health Committee Members. https://secure.everyaction.com/2f4_R3QgZUakdvsutejw8Q2
*Links provided by A VOICE FOR CHOICE ADVOCACY
Attend or call in public comment during hearings.
Hearing calendar gives you the date, time and location. Or click on bill hyperlink to be directed to committee for call in information.
List of bills to oppose and Talking Point Compilation from all organizations.