Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

SUPPORT:

• SB19 – Referred to Com. on PUB. S. – Criminalizes threats of death or great bodily harm at schools or places of worship.

• AB38 – Referred to Com. on PUB. S. – Includes the rape or sexual assault of a minor who has a developmental disability in the list of violent felonies.

• AB19 – Introduced – Creates education savings accounts to help parents send their children to better-performing schools.
• AB329 – Introduced – Requires a comprehensive discussion of adoption in sex education curriculum under the California Healthy Youth Act
• SB64 – Referred to Coms. on ED. and REV. & TAX. – 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.
• SCA1 – Introduced – Allows California to fund private school tuition for eligible students.

• AB324 – Introduced – Permits state law enforcement agencies, otherwise restricted from assisting federal agents in enforcing immigration laws, to provide assistance if an illegal immigrant is alleged or has been previously convicted of violating specific sex trafficking provisions.

• AB89 – Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T. and ED. – Requires the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a biological male from participating in girls’ interscholastic sports teams.

• ACAX11 – Introduced – Constitutional Amendment. Adopts financial penalties for California legislators and the Governor if they support or enact laws later ruled unconstitutional.

OPPOSE:

• AB40 – Referred to Com. on Health. – Expands the definition of emergency medical services to include abortion.
• AB45 – Introduced – Prevents health care providers from disclosing medical research information about non-California residents seeking or obtaining an abortion in California and makes it unlawful to geo-fence an abortion clinic.
• AB54 – Introduced – Access to “Safe” Abortion Care Act. Makes legislative findings about medication abortion, with a focus on use of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, with the intent to enact legislation that would ensure access to medication abortion.
• AB67 – Introduced – 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.
• AB302 – Introduced – Makes sure warrants from courts from other states asking for medical information are ignored if it involves issues related to abortions.

• AB86 – Referred to Com. on ED. – Requires the state board to adopt sexual health education materials in grades K-8 pursuant to its 2019 framework.
• AB281 – Introduced – Requires school districts to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education

• AB260 – Introduced – States that it is the intent of the legislature to ensure that Californians will continue to have access to abortion, gender-affirming care, and other sexual and reproductive health care. (Placeholder bill that is waiting for more bill text.)

• SB59 – Referred to Com. on JUD. – Requires the court to limit access to court records to regarding petitions filed for gender/sex and name changes. It would prohibit those records from being posted publicly, on the internet or otherwise, by anyone other than the petitioner.

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.)