AB 746 establishes a statewide standard for couples seeking stepparent adoptions to ensure that California’s adoption laws guarantee equal access to parentage, especially for our LGBTQIA+ community.
AB 764 helps protect survivors of criminal stalking and updates our laws to reflect the modern world by adding “social media, electronic communication, [and] electronic communication devices” to the forms of contact prohibited by a protective order.
AB 890 requires the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) to each produce and submit an annual report on the participation of emerging managers or diverse managers under contract with each respective fund to manage pension fund assets.
AB 939, Denim Day Act of 2021, fulfills the promise of Denim Day by removing an existing provision of law that allows the manner in which a survivor was dressed to be admitted as evidence of consent in a criminal case involving sexual assault and thus makes it clear that clothes can never provide consent.
AB 1307 creates an independent citizens redistricting commission for the Riverside County Board of Supervisors beginning with the 2030 round of redistricting.
AB 1467 provides campus sexual assault counselors with the independence necessary to assist survivors to the fullest extent.
AB 1477 increases access to maternal mental health care by requiring licensed health care practitioners who provide prenatal, postpartum, or interpregnancy care, to give expectant mothers appropriate screening for maternal mental health conditions.
AB 1619 improves voter education, strengthens voter protections, and addresses high rejection rates for mismatched signatures on vote-by-mail ballots for registered voters.
AB 1631 would improve access to the ballot box by requiring counties to provide multilingual polling pace workers to provide language assistance to bilingual and non-English-speaking citizens.
AB 2172 updates the Political Reform Act of 1974 to reflect the electronic realities of the 21st Century by authorizing electronic FPPC filing.
AB 2342 modifies the Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) Program to improve implementation and better support regions in developing equitable and inclusive economic recovery and transition strategies.
AB 2466 strengthens anti-discrimination policies for LGBTQ+ resource families and helps to end the statutory stigma attached to LGBTQ+ foster children by eliminating the term “hard to place children” from our state laws.