Bill Watch List / 2026 Session

Updated: 1/17/2026 3:6 PM

SUPPORT:

• ACA7 – Constitutional Amendment Narrowing Anti-Discrimination Protections in Public Education
  Carryover from 2025 – Constitutional Amendment. Keeps the anti-discrimination and anti-preferential treatment rules in place for state jobs, college admissions, and public contracts, but on the positive side, it would no longer apply to other public education settings.

OPPOSE:

• AB1564 – Medicinal Cannabis Direct Shipment to Qualified Patients
  Introduced – Expands California’s medicinal cannabis system by allowing licensed cannabis microbusinesses to ship marijuana directly to patients, limits the ability of local governments to restrict these deliveries, and extends cannabis access through 2030.

• AB86 – Mandated LGBTQ+ Content in K–8 Sexual Health Materials – 2025
  Carried over from 2025. Consideration of Governor’s veto pending – Requires the state board to adopt K–8 sexual health materials with LGBTQ+ content, which it hasn’t done despite the 2019 Framework.

• AB1540 – Protecting Suicide Prevention Resources for LGBTQ+ Youth Fund
  Introduced – Requires California to add an LGBTQ+ routing option to the 988 suicide hotline, expand call, text, and chat technology, and establish a $5 million state grant program to fund and support LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention services by 2027.
• SB418 – Mandated Insurance Coverage for Hormone Therapy and Transgender Treatments – 2025
  Carried over from 2025. Consideration of Governor’s veto pending – Requires health insurers to cover prescriptions for hormone therapy, including for the purpose of transgender body modification.

WATCH:

• AB1538 – Prohibition on Retaliation by Public Officials for Exercise of Constitutional Rights
  Introduced – Makes it a crime for public officials to retaliate against individuals for exercising constitutional rights and mandates removal from office and permanent disqualification upon conviction.