Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 5/22/2025 4:2 PM

SUPPORT:

• AB1453 – Failed in Committee. Reconsideration granted. – Requires information on adoption be provided on public post-secondary campuses where contraception and emergency contraception are located.

• SB19 – Set for hearing May 23. – Criminalizes threats of death or great bodily harm at schools or places of worship.

• AB38 – Assembly Committee hearing canceled at the request of the author – Includes the rape or sexual assault of a minor who has a developmental disability in the list of violent felonies.

• AB634 – Hearing canceled at the request of author – Adds tianeptine to the Controlled Substances Act, categorizing it as a drug with high potential for abuse and dependency.

• AB281 – Passed Assembly Committees and ordered to a Third Reading 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.)
• AB600 – Introduced – Allows parents or guardians to request that their child be excused from any public school instruction that discusses transgender concepts.
• SB64 – Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 5.) Reconsideration granted. – School Choice Flex Account Act. Provides funding for children grades K-12 to be used for private full-time day schools accredited by or awaiting accreditation from, a regional accrediting agency recognized by the state or the United States Department of Education.
• SB622 – Senate Committee hearing canceled at the request of the author – Mandates a pupil’s participation in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, shall be consistent with the pupil’s sex at birth.
• SCA1 – Introduced – Allows California to fund private school tuition for eligible students.

• AB1375 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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.

• AJR2 – Introduced – Assembly Joint Resolution. Calls the federal government to locate the missing children who were brought across the southern border of the United States under the Biden Administration and to take immediate and comprehensive action to address the crisis of missing undocumented children.

• AB579 – Introduced – Yaeli’s Law. Clarifies that using a child’s legal name and pronouns based on their birth sex and refusing to provide “gender-affirming care” does not qualify as child abuse or neglect.

• AB392 – Re-referred to Com. on APPR. – This bill would require a person 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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.

• AB1464 – Referred to Com. on PUB. S. – Requires prisons to deny a housing preference by an individual who is transgender, nonbinary, or intersex and require an individual to be housed in a facility consistent with the individual’s anatomy, if the individual has been convicted of sex-related offenses against the opposite gender.

• AB63 – Re-referred to Committee on Public Safety – Reinstates laws making it a crime to loiter in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution.
• AB379 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – 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.

• AB22 – In committee: Set, first hearing. Held without recommendation. – Removes the exemption that a sex offender is excluded from mandatory sex registration if they were convicted of certain offenses involving a minor and were no more than 10 years older than the minor, and it’s their only offense requiring registration; requires the department to have proof of housing before releasing a sexually violent predator.
• AB767 – Assembly Committee hearing canceled at the request of the author – Bans placing released individuals known to be sexually violent predators within 1/4 mile of a daycare or school or private schools that provide elementary or high school education and that have filed a private school affidavit with the State Department of Education.

• ACA7 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – Constitutional Amendment. Keeps the anti-discrimination and anti-preferential treatment rules in place for state jobs, college admissions, and public contracts, but it would no longer apply to other public education settings.

• AB397 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – Amends the Personal Income Tax Law to gradually increase the age limit for a “qualifying child” for the young child tax credit.

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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 – Sent to the Senate – 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.
• AB67 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – Allows the Attorney General to sue any person or entity for planning to violate or violating the Reproductive Privacy Act, which prohibits a person from being subject to civil or criminal liability, or otherwise deprived of their rights, based on their actions or omissions with respect to their pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcome or based solely on their actions to aid or assist a woman or pregnant person who is exercising their reproductive rights as specified in the act.
• AB260 – Passed Assembly – Sent to the Senate – 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 Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Assembly – Makes sure warrants from courts from other states asking for medical information are ignored if it involves issues related to abortions.
• AB551 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – Provides funding from public and private sources for expanding access to abortion services in hospital emergency rooms.
• AB1500 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – Requires the State Department of Public Health to work with an organization to update and manage a website with information on sexual and reproductive health. The website will include information from federal sources and other resources.
• SB528 – Set for hearing May 23. – Provides back-fill funding for Medi-Cal for abortions and medical transgender surgeries and drugs, if the federal government limits or refuses to provide funding for these services.

• SB403 – Set for hearing May 23. – 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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.
• AB1468 – Senate Committee hearing postponed by the Committee – Requires the Board of Education to adopt ethnic studies standards that foster multicultural respect and understanding and focus on the domestic experience and stories of historically marginalized peoples in American society.
• SB510 – Passed Senate Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Senate – 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.
• SB608 – Set for hearing May 23. – Requires public schools to make condoms readily available to students in grades 7-12 and bans stores from refusing to sell contraception based on age.

• SB418 – Passed Senate Committees and waiting for a vote by the full Senate – 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.
• SB751 – Set for hearing May 23. – Requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to oversee a Veterans and First Responders Research Pilot Program, in partnership with the University of California, for researching psilocybin services for specific populations in up to 5 counties, with funding from grants and donations, and a report due to the Legislature by 2030.

• AB1261 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 2nd Senate Committee hearing – RESOLUTION. Opposes the President Trump’s Executive Order aimed at ending birthright citizenship.

• AB547 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – Provides a tax credit of up to $5,000 for in vitro fertilization expenses from 2025 to 2030. Industry-standard IVF processes in America create far more embryos than will be implanted or come to term. While neither fertility clinics nor government agencies keep concrete figures for tracking this question, the number of embryos created in America could number, conservatively, around 4 million per year. Yet current data estimates just 97,000 of these babies are born annually, leaving hundreds of thousands (and possibly millions) of embryos at the mercy of the IVF industry. Clinics often destroy these embryos when parents stop paying the monthly freezer-storage costs. Without intervention, these children face intentional destruction, unintentional death, or indefinite detention.
• SB257 – Set for hearing May 23. – Requires health insurance companies to cover all surrogate pregnancies, making it a crime if they deny or limit care coverage.

• AB82 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 2nd Assembly Committee hearing – 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 – Passed Assembly – 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 – Set for hearing May 23. – 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 – Set for hearing May 23. – 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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.

WATCH:

• AB256 – Introduced – States that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding crimes involving firearms. (Placeholder bill that is waiting for more bill text.)