Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 6/4/2025 12:49 PM

SUPPORT:

• SB19 – Passed Senate – Sent to the Assembly – Criminalizes threats of death or great bodily harm at schools or places of worship.

• AB281 – Passed Assembly Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Assembly – Requires a school district, if it elects to provide sexual health education or HIV prevention education to be taught by outside consultants, to also provide notice of the name of the organization or affiliation of the outside consultants to parents, if they request it. (Weakened from original version which required the school to notify the partents.)

• AB1375 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Authorizes courts to consider human trafficking factors in child custody cases, establishing a presumption against granting custody to parents involved in trafficking, which can only be rebutted by substantial evidence.

• AB392 – Passed Senate Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Senate – Requires anyone who operates a pornographic website to take reasonable steps to ensure that any sexually explicit content uploaded to the operator’s pornographic website does not picture a minor and was uploaded with the individual’s consent.
• AB621 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Allows individuals depicted in digitized sexually explicit material to sue those who assisted in creating or distributing it; also allows a person who was shown in certain material the right to sue someone who knew or should have known that the person was a minor when the material was made.

• AB379 – Passed Assembly – Referred to Senate Public Safety Committee – Increases penalties for soliciting minors for prostitution, mandates diversion programs for first-time offenders, criminalizes loitering with intent to purchase sex, and establishes a fund to support trafficking victims.

OPPOSE:

• AB40 – Passed Assembly – Referred to Senate Committee on HEALTH. – Expands the definition of emergency medical services to include reproductive health services, such as abortion.
• AB45 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Bans the collection, use, sale, or sharing, the personal information of people at abortion clinics, unless needed for services and makes it unlawful to geo-fence an abortion clinic.
• AB54 – Passed Assembly – Referred to the Senate Health & Judiciary Committee – Access to “Safe” Abortion Care Act. Ensures continued access to medication abortion in California, stating that “With over 20 years of available data, medication abortion has proven to be remarkably safe and effective.” Stipulates that people in California, such as doctors, can’t be punished for handling abortion pills legally, as long as they followed the rules.
• AB260 – Passed Assembly and one Senate Committee – Makes mifepristone and other medication abortion drugs more readily available and preempts the impact created by any future decision of the US Food and Drug Administration to remove them from the list of approved drugs.
• AB302 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Makes sure warrants from courts from other states asking for medical information are ignored if it involves issues related to abortions.

• SB403 – Passed Senate Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Senate – Removes the current expiration date of January 1, 2031, for the End of Life Option Act which allows terminally ill patients to request and ingest an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of committing suicide.

• AB84 – Passed Assembly Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Assembly – Affects every charter school, adding expensive mandates, penalizing schools with flexible learning plans and shifts resources from the classroom to administration. AB 84 is being called a “charter school killer” bill.
• AB727 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Requires public schools that serve pupils in grades 7 to 12 and public or private institutions of higher education to add the aggressively pro-LGBTQ Trevor Project’s hotline phone number to student IDs with NO exemptions for religious institutions of higher education.

• AB86 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Requires the state board to adopt sexual health education materials in grades K-8 pursuant to its 2019 framework.
• AB322 – Passed Assembly – Referred to Senate Committee on Education – Requires the department to include county offices of education and charter schools in certain provisions and encourage them to participate in programs offering reimbursement for school-based health and mental health services
• AB908 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Requires school districts to have plans to ensure schools have supportive policies and initiatives to ensure LGBTQ identified students are supported. Includes: making sure LGBTQ+ identified students have access to an all-gender bathroom, that school curriculum is LGBTQ+-affirming, making sure LGBTQ+ identified students can access any bathroom, locker room, shower and be on any sports team they want regardless of sex, and that teachers receive LGBTQ+ affirming training to prevent harassment and bullying.
• SB510 – Passed Senate – Sent to the Assembly – Requires instruction for grades 1-12 that “provides a foundation for understanding the treatment and perspectives of African Americans regarding the harm California has done to African Americans” and other concepts based on Critical Race Theory.

• SB418 – Passed Senate – Sent to the Assembly – Bans health insurers from discriminating based on sex (including gender identity and intersex traits) and prevents them from denying or limiting coverage for these reasons.

• AB1261 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Requires the state to provide legal counsel to each unaccompanied undocumented minor in the physical custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and present in California or residing with a family member or other sponsor in California, as specified.

• SR32 – Passed Senate Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Senate – RESOLUTION. Opposes the President Trump’s Executive Order aimed at ending birthright citizenship.

• SB257 – Passed Senate – Sent to the Assembly – Requires health insurance companies to cover all surrogate pregnancies, making it a crime if they deny or limit care coverage.

• AB82 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Extends privacy protections to gender-affirming health care, allows those facing threats to join the address confidentiality program, and makes it illegal to share or post personal information or images of gender-affirming health care individuals with harmful intent.
• AB932 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Mandates gender equity in community youth athletics programs, allowing civil actions for discrimination and requiring local educational agencies to accommodate both genders’ athletic interests proportionately or demonstrate full accommodation of underrepresented genders.
• AB1084 – Passed Assembly Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Assembly – Eliminates the ability to object to an adult’s name change to match their gender identity and requires the court to grant the petition within two weeks without a hearing; requires the court to approve a minor’s name change within two weeks if all parents agree, and if any parent disagrees, a hearing will be held only if they object with valid reasons.
• AB1487 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Adds “Two-Spirit” to the to the beginning of the name of the current “Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Wellness and Equity Fund and further establishes the acronym: 2TGI.
• AR21 – Adopted – No recorded vote – Resolves to increase awareness about the importance of removing all barriers to 2STGI (Two-Spirit, Transgender, Gender Nonconforming or Nonbinary, or Intersex ) communities, individuals, and families.
• SB59 – Passed Senate – Sent to the Assembly – Mandates all court proceedings hide the truth from the public regarding changes in a person’s gender and sex identifiers; allows people or organizations to take legal action to enforce confidentiality, and possibly sue for “damages.”
• SB497 – Passed Senate – Sent to the Assembly – Strengthens protections for individuals seeking transgender surgeries and drugs by prohibiting the release of related medical information in response to out-of-state legal actions and restricts the use of CURES data in such contexts, while creating new misdemeanors for unauthorized access to this data.
• SR22 – Passed Senate – Senate Resolution proclaiming March 31, 2025, as Transgender Day of Visibility.

• AR34 – Adopted – No recorded vote – A resolution to commemorate Harvey Milk, the first openly gay-identified elected official, a homosexual rights activist, and a man known for his pederasty.

• AB268 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Even though only 2 percent of California is Hindu, this bill wants to designate Diwali as an official state holiday in California, allowing schools and state employees to observe it.

• AB766 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – Requires state agencies to update their plans to focus on racial equity and conduct a racial equity analysis before implementing any budget or regulation, led by a diversity (DEI) officer.