ON HOLD/POSTPONED/CANCELLED
SB 1390 Social media disinformation (PAN) - April 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
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 1464 Law Enforcement of public health orders (PAN)***
ON HOLD. Senate Health Committee hearing. Senator Richard Pan put SB 1464 ON HOLD. This was due to the overwhelming opposition from law enforcement groups throughout the state. On hold does NOT mean this bill is dead or defeated.
This bill would 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.
NO DATE YET
SB 866 Minors: vaccine consent (Pan) – 12 Year Old Minor Consent to Vaccination Without Parental Consent:
A minor 12 years of age or older may consent to a vaccine that is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and meets the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ACIP) without the consent of the parent or guardian of the minor.
Senate Judiciary Committee. No hearing date confirmed
Submit your opposition letter before Tuesday, April 26 to the Senate Judiciary Committee here: https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/
BILLS GOING TO COMMITTEE HEARING
AB 2098
Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct (Low)
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 such physician or surgeon.
Assembly: Business and Professions Committee Hearing Date: April 19- Passed
Assembly Appropriations Committee: TBD
Contact Assembly Appropriations Committee to tell them to vote NO or ABSTAIN.
SB 1479
COVID19 testing in schools: COVID19 testing plans (PAN)
Requires schools to continue COVID19 testing. This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to create a COVID-19 testing plan and designate one staff member to report information on its COVID-19 testing program to the department.
Senate Health Committee Hearing: March 30 at 1pm - PASSED COMMITTEE
Senate Education Committee Hearing: April 27th 9am
Contact Senate Education Committee to tell them to vote NO or ABSTAIN.
AB 1797
Development of a state immunization registry (Weber)
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, rather than just those of their students/patients or the particular vaccines required for school.
Assembly Health Committee Hearing: April 19th (pending re-refer to Com. on ED.) 04/21/22 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. 04/19/22 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
New Hearing Dates:
Assembly Health Committee: Tuesday April 26, at 1:30pm
Assembly Education Committee: Wednesday April 27, at 1:30pm
Contact both Assembly Health and Education Committee to tell them to vote NO or ABSTAIN.
BILLS GOING TO FLOOR VOTE
SB-1100
Open meetings: orderly conduct. (Cortese)
Senate Bill 1100 allows the members of a legislative body to remove individuals who willfully interrupt their meeting. The measure defines willful interruption as intentionally engaging in behavior that substantially impairs or renders infeasible the orderly conduct of the meeting in accordance with law and applicable rules. It includes, but is not limited to: (1) a failure to comply with reasonable regulations prohibiting force, threats of force, or intimidation; and (2) a threat against another person’s free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to them by the state and federal constitutions or law.
Senate Com. on GOV. & F.: Committee: Passed March 9
Sen Judiciary Committee Hearing Date: Passed April 19
Senate Floor Vote: TBD
Contact your local Senate Member to voice your opposition and demand they vote NO or ABSTAIN. (https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/).
SB 1184
Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: school-linked services coordinators
This bill will change the California Medical Privacy act to authorize a health care provider or service plan to disclose your child’s medical information to a school-linked services coordinator.
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Date: April 5th - Passed
Going to Senate Floor for vote: TBD
Contact your local Senate Member to voice your opposition and demand they vote NO or ABSTAIN. (https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/).