Keep the pressure on!
Your actions are making a difference! SB 407 was amended. See below for bill updates. Keep the pressure on and keep taking action. AB 223, AB 665 and AB 957 are all on third reading and eligible to be taken up for a floor vote. SB 407, SB 596 and AB 5 are in suspense file. Your engagement with legislators are at a crucial point.
Take Action Today
Take action on important California bills. Send an email to your legislator to let them know you oppose or support. We’ve made it easy — click the Take Action buttons below each bill. Also, please submit your official opposition letter to the legislative portal.
Other Action steps:
Call your legislator local office on Friday and schedule a time to meet.
Contact your local school board and make them aware of the bills, ask that they oppose them too.
Attend School Board meetings where parents are already activated into action and share the bills with them. Many people don't understand that the root cause of the Gender Ideology policies start in Sacramento.
Visit our Take Action Link to email and tweet your legislator.
Be sure to submit your official letter of opposition to these bill through the legislative portal to be apart of public record and bill analysis.
Rally with the parents on August 21st in Sacramento and August 22nd in Los Angeles.
Share this information with others concerned citizens and have them take action as well.
AB 665
consent to mental health services (Carillo)
Removes 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 of Bill: Sen 3rd Reading - Asm Bills 08-17-2023 #69
AB 957
Family law: gender identity
AB 957 Obligates a judge to include gender identity affirmation by parent as part of the deciding criteria when awarding custody in family court. Changes SECTION 1. Section 3011 of the Family Code to the health, safety, and welfare of of the child. (B) As used in this paragraph, the health, safety, and welfare of the child includes, among other comprehensive factors, a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression. Affirmation includes a range of actions and will be unique for each child, but in every case must promote the child’s overall health and well-being.…Read more
Status of Bill: Sen 3rd Reading - Asm Bills 08-17-2023 #128
AB-223
Change of gender and sex identifier.
The intent of AB 223 is to limit access to information about sex identified at birth (birth certificate, name, sex, gender identifiers, etc.) It hides the minors' records who seek changes of name and gender by making the records confidential.
Status of Bill: Sen 3rd Reading - Asm Bills 08-17-2023 #48
SB 407 AMENDED!!
Foster care: resource families (Wiener, Lee, Low)
SB 407, as amended, Wiener. Foster care: resource families.
This bill would require a resource family to demonstrate the capacity to meet the needs of a child, regardless of the child’s sexual orientation or gender identity, as specified. To the extent this bill would create new duties for counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would require the department to require the above-described standardized documentation to include documents for assessing the ability to care for and supervise children and youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities and to ensure that county-approved resource families are upholding the rights of a child in foster care and meeting the resource family’s responsibility to safeguard those rights, including the right to have fair and equal access to all available services, placement, care, treatment, and benefits, and to not be subjected to discrimination or harassment on the basis of actual or perceived race, ethnic group identification, ancestry, national origin, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental or physical disability, or HIV status. The bill would require the department to work with stakeholders, including counties, the California Alliance of Child and Family Services, and LGBTQ advocates, to develop standards and a caregiver handbook for caring for children and youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Status of Bill: Asm Appropriations Suspense File.
AB 1078
Instructional materials and curriculum:
This bill would remove local school districts from the equation of deciding the best literature and curriculum for the communities served.
Local school districts will lose their authority over curriculum and give all the power to the County Superintendent and California Board of Education. It includes financial penalties to school districts who don’t comply.
Status of Bill: Sen Appropriations Committee Hearing Date: 08/21/23
SB 596
School employees: protection
This bill would specify, for purposes of the above-described offense, that “substantial disorder” includes substantial disorder at any meeting of the governing board of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, a county board of education, or the State Board of Education.
The broad bill language targets involved parents who are passionately speaking out to defend their children’s innocence and improve their quality of education.
Status of Bill: Asm. Appropriations Suspense File