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IMPORTANT ACTION STEPS Week of April 25th

Amy Bohn

IMPORTANT ACTION STEPS

Week of April 25th

AB 2098, AB 1797 & SB 1479

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 to ask them to vote “NO” or “Abstain” on AB 2098, SB 1390, SB 1479, and AB 1797. Call in your opposition to both District and Capitol Committee Member Offices on Monday April 25th and Tuesday April 26th. Each bill is listed with phone list for the committee members assigned to its hearing and dates.

Call and email (D) legislators.

Email (R) legislators.

AB 2098 Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct (Low)

  • Phone list here: ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS CONTACT LIST

  • 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.

  • Call Assembly Appropriations members to voice you opposition now until hearing.

  • Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing: TBA

  • Call and Meet with your local Assembly Member or their staff voicing your opposition. https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ 

AB 1797 Development of a state immunization registry (Weber)

  • Phone list here: Assembly Health Committee Members Contact List and Assembly Education Committee 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.

  • Call Assembly Health Committee now and until Monday April 25th.

  • Call Assembly Education Committee members now and until Tuesday April 26th.

  • Assembly Health Committee hearing Tuesday April 26th at 1:30 pm. Give public comment on Tuesday April 25, at 1:30pm in person in Rm 1100 or call in (877) 692-8957; Code: 18501100

  • Assembly Education Committee hearing on Wednesday April 27, at 1:30pm. Give public comment in person on Wednesday April 26, at 1:30pm in Rm 1100

SB 1390- Social media disinformation (PAN)

April 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  • Phone list here: Senate Judiciary contact list.

  • This bill would prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from amplifying harmful content in a manner that results in a user viewing harmful content from another user with whom the user did not choose to share a connection. The bill would provide that harmful content includes libel or slander, as specified, threats of imminent violence against governmental entities, and disinformation or misinformation, including, but not limited to, false or misleading information regarding medicine or vaccinations, false or misleading information regarding elections, and conspiracy theories.

  • Call Senate Judiciary Committee members now until Monday April 25th.

  • Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing date: April 26 at 1:30pm

SB 1479 COVID-19 testing in schools: COVID-19 testing plans (Pan)

Email

The deadlines to submit your opposition letter through the Legislative Portal to for the bill analysis has passed for AB 2098, AB 1797, SB 1479 and SB 1464.

To make an impact, you must email your opposition directly to Committee Members now until hearing dates.

Click on all three links below for an easy one step email to all committee members.

*One click 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.

OTHER BILLS TO OPPOSE


SB 1419 Health Information (Becker)

Prohibit the representative of a minor from inspecting the minor’s patient record when the records relate to certain services, including medical care related to the prevention or treatment of pregnancy, as specified.

Senate Judiciary Committee- Passed

Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee.  

Senate floor mid-May

Contact your local State Senator to voice your opposition. (https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/).