BILLS WE OPPOSE
AB-665 Minors: consent to mental health services (Carrilllo and Weiner)
Assembly Bill 665 would remove the requirement that children must be a danger to themselves or others, or be alleged incest or abuse victims, before seeking care without their parents' consent. This will remove the guardrails that prevent abuse of current law, so instead of cases of emergency, mental health professionals or school psychologists can refer for treatment and/or send a child to residential shelter services for any reason without parental consent.
Status: Asm 3rd Reading File Assembly Bills 03-30-2023 #62
If it is passed it will head to Senate.
Take action by contacting your Senator about AB 665.
AB-659 Cancer Prevention Act aka HPV vaccine mandate bill (Aguilar- Curry)
Declare the public policy of the state that pupils are expected to be fully immunized against human papillomavirus (HPV) before admission or advancement to the 8th grade level of any private or public elementary or secondary school.Adds the HPV vaccine to the list of required immunizations for all college students 18-26, with only a medical exemption option to opt out.
Status: 03/23/23 In Health committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB-1078 Instructional materials: removing instructional materials and curriculum: diversity. (Jackson)
Prevents Local School Board Control of Books/Curriculum in Public Schools
Status: 03/02/23 Referred to Com. on ED.
BILLS WE SUPPORT
AB-1314 Gender identity: parental notification (Essayli and Gallagher)
Would provide that a parent or guardian be notified, if a child requests to be publicly addressed by a different gender pronoun other than their birth certificate, or to use facilities of a different gender, a parent must be notified.
Status: 03/13/23 Re-referred to Com. on ED.
SB-292 Education expenses: Education Savings Account Act of 2024 (Grove)
This bill would enact the Education Savings Account Act of 2024 and establish the Education Savings Account (ESA) Trust.
Status: 03/27/23 April 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SCA 5 Educational expenses: education savings accounts (Grove)
This measure would authorize the state, and every agency or political subdivision of the state, to disburse funds pursuant to an agreement between the state and a parent or legal guardian of an eligible child for tuition and education-related expenses, as provided by statute, and provide tax or other public benefits to private schools, private colleges, private universities, or private vocational educational or training institutions, irrespective of religious affiliation, to further the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement. And to appear on the same statewide election ballot.
Status: 03/27/23 April 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB-1652 Curriculum: right to examine. (Sanchez R)
This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to post the process for examining curriculum materials on their internet website.
Status: 03/09/23 Referred to Com. on ED.
AB - 1023 School cybersecurity (Papan D)
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would provide additional support and funding to local educational agencies to improve and expand protections against cybersecurity threats.
Status: 03/27/23 Re-referred to Com. on E.M.
SB 16 - Civil rights: discrimination: enforcement. (Smallwood-Cuevas D)
This bill would also specify that nothing in the California Fair Employment and Housing Act shall be construed to limit or restrict efforts by local entities to enforce state law prohibiting discrimination against classes of persons covered by the act in employment and housing, including experience addiction to the social media platform.
Status: Sen 2nd Reading - Sen Bills 03-30-2023 #6 - PASSED.
Heading to Assembly Rules. Take action now by contacting your Assembly Member to vote YES on SB 16.
AB-801 Student privacy: online personal information
This bill would require an operator to delete a preschool, prekindergarten, or K–12 student’s covered information if the student, or the student’s parent or legal guardian, requests an operator to delete the covered information under the operator’s control if the student is no longer attending the school or district, and would authorize an operator to require documentation that the student no longer attends the school or district.
Status: 03/27/23 Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB-802 Curriculum: right to examine. - support
This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide written notice to a pupil’s parent or guardian of their right to examine the curriculum materials of the class or classes in which their child is enrolled, as provided, to post information on that right to their internet website if they maintain an internet website, and to ensure that each of their individual schools posts information on that right on their individual internet website if they maintain an individual internet website.
Status: 02/23/23 Referred to Com. on ED.
Legislators are on Spring Recess until until Monday, April 10th. Use this time to contact your local legislators about these bills.