Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 7/10/2025 11:52 AM

SUPPORT:

• SB19 – Placed on Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense File – Criminalizes threats of death or great bodily harm at schools or places of worship.

• 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 Assembly – Sent to the 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 and one Senate Committee – 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 and Senate Committees – Waiting for a vote by the full Senate – Increases penalties for soliciting minors for prostitution, criminalizes loitering with intent to purchase sex, and establishes a fund to support trafficking victims.

OPPOSE:

• AB40 – Passed Assembly and Senate Committees – Ordered to the Inactive File – 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 and one Senate 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 – Placed on Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense File – 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; also allows the patient’s name to be excluded from the prescription.

• SB403 – Passed Senate and one Assembly Committee – 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 Assembly – Senate Committee hearing canceled at the request of the author – Requires public schools that serve pupils in grades 7 to 12 and public institutions of higher education to add the aggressively pro-LGBTQ Trevor Project’s hotline phone number to student IDs. NOTE: An amendment by the Senate Education Committee on June 20th removed “private” institutions of higher education from the bill. It’s requirements no longer apply to our private Christian colleges.

• AB86 – Passed Assembly – Placed on Senate 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 Assembly and one Senate Committee – Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make sure schools have social studies curriculum that is inclusive, including the early history and development of California and the United States of America and the role and contributions of people of all genders, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ+) Americans.

• SB418 – Passed the full Senate and Assembly Committees – Requires health insurers to cover prescriptions for hormone therapy.

• SB257 – Passed Senate and one Assembly Committee – Requires health insurance companies to cover all surrogate pregnancies.

• AB82 – Passed Assembly and one Senate Committee – 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 and one Senate Committee – 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 and one Senate Committee – 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 six weeks without a hearing; requires the court to approve a minor’s name change within six 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 and one Senate Committee – 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. It would also revise the definition of “health care” to include mental health services and define “Two-Spirit” and “transitional-age 2TGI youth.”
• 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 Assembly Judiciary Committee – 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 strategic plans to reflect the use of data analysis and inclusive practices to more effectively advance racial equality, to respond to identified disparities, and to engage and gather input from California communities that have been historically disadvantaged and underserved within the scope of policies or programs administered or implemented by the agency.