Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 4/26/2025 8:56 PM

SUPPORT:

• AB1453 – Awaiting Assembly Committee Hearings – Requires information on adoption be provided on public post-secondary campuses where contraception and emergency contraception are located.

• SB19 – Placed on Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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 – Awaiting Assembly Committee Hearings – Adds tianeptine to the Controlled Substances Act, categorizing it as a drug with high potential for abuse and dependency.

• AB19 – Placed on Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File – Creates education savings accounts to help parents send their children to better-performing schools.
• 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.

• AB20 – Passed 1st Assembly Committee hearing – Bans homeless encampments within 500 feet of places like schools, parks, or transit stops, and prevent people from camping on public property, like sidewalks, if a shelter bed is available in the city.

• 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.
• SB311 – Set for hearing April 29. – Requires the department to create secure areas in women’s prisons for transgender women to ensure the safety of biological women. It also bans convicted sex offenders from being placed in women’s prisons.

• 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 – Passed 1st Assembly Committee hearing – Reinstates laws making it a crime to loiter in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution.
• AB379 – Passed 1st Assembly Committee hearing – 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.

• AB397 – Awaiting Assembly Committee Hearings – 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 – Sent to the Senate – Expands the definition of emergency medical services to include reproductive health services, such as abortion.
• AB45 – Re-referred to Com. on JUD. – 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 1st Assembly Committee hearing – 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 – Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. – 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 1st Assembly Committee hearing – 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 1st Assembly Committee hearing – 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.

• SB403 – Passed 1st Senate Committee hearing – 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.

• AB727 – Passed 1st Assembly Committee hearing – Requires “public schools that serve pupils in an of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and public or private and institutions of higher education” to add the Trevor Project hotline, which provides counseling to LGBTQ+ students, to student IDs with NO exemptions for religious schools and colleges.

• 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.
• AB908 – Passed 1st Assembly Committee hearing – 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 – Referred to Com. on ED. – 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 1st Assembly Committee hearing – 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 April 28. – 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 2nd Senate Committee hearing – 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.

• SR32 – Passed 2nd Senate Committee hearing – RESOLUTION. Opposes the President Trump’s Executive Order aimed at ending birthright citizenship.

• AB547 – Awaiting Assembly Committee Hearings – 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 – Passed 1st Senate Committee hearing – Requires health insurance companies to cover all surrogate pregnancies, making it a crime if they deny or limit care coverage.

• AB932 – Passed 1st Assembly Committee hearing – 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 1st 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 – Passed 1st Assembly Committee hearing – 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 – Re-referred to Com. on APPR. – 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 1st Senate Committee hearing – 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.

• AB766 – Awaiting Assembly Committee Hearings – 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.)