Legislative Committee

SB 1237 (Dodd)

Nurse-midwives: scope of practice. - the Justice and Equity in Maternity Care Act. - This bill would increase access to high-value, high-quality maternal healthcare and improve maternal and newborn health outcomes during a time when California
faces a critical obstetrician shortage and significant race-based disparities in maternal and infant outcomes.

SB 1190 (Durazo)

Tenancy: termination. - This bill would allow tenants to break a lease without penalty if an immediate family member were the victim of a crime.

AB 1436 (Chiu)

This bill would recognize the scale and economic impact of the COVID-19 emergency by re-moving the threat of eviction for renters affected by the crisis while preserving the ability of landlords to recover un-paid rent.

AB 2542 (Kalra)

Criminal procedure: discrimination - Racial Justice Act - This bill would prohibit the state from seeking a criminal conviction or sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin and puts mechanisms, such as expanding the duties of local prosecutors, into place to enforce this prohibition. Note: as of 7/20/2020, this bill will not be moving forward this year.

AB 3216 (Kalra and González)

This bill protects the jobs of hospitality workers through rights of recall and retention.

AB 3121 (Weber)

Advances the conversation of reparations and develops ideas for how to overcome logistical implementation challenges.

ACA 6 (McCarty)

Restores voting rights to Californians serving a period of parole in California.

ACA 5 (Weber)

Creates equal opportunities for all Californians by fighting discrimination against women and people of color and restoring affirmative action in public contracting, public employment and public education.

SB 932 (Atkins)

Requires the state to collect LGBTQ data during the COVID-19 crisis, including infection, hospitalization, ICU, recovery, and mortality rates.

AB 3300 (Santiago)

Support

California Access to Housing and Services Act - Appropriates $2 billion in ongoing funding to big cities, counties and homeless CoCs, and affordable housing developers to expedite the delivery of homeless housing, rental and housing assistance, and wrap-around services.

AB 2218 (Santiago)

Establishes the Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund under the administration of the Office of Health Equity in the State Department of Public Health for grants to Trans-led organizations and hospitals, health care clinics, and other medical providers that provide gender-conforming health care services and have an established partnership with a Trans-led organization, to create, or fund existing, programs focused on coordinating trans-inclusive health care, as defined, for people that identify as transgender, gender non-conforming, or intersex. The bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund, established pursuant to this bill, for these purposes.

AB 2236 (Gabriel)

Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop and periodically update an interactive refresher course on hate crimes for in-service peace officers, and require specified peace officers to take the course every 5 years. 6/4/2020 update: Sadly, this bill was held in Assembly Appropriations so it will not be moving forward this year.

AB 2023 (Chiu)

Ensures that California’s public colleges and universities allow transgender and nonbinary students to have their chosen name printed on their diploma, and provides a standardized process for updating the records of former students so their name and gender are accurately reflected on critical documents.

SB 859 (Wiener)

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Chief of the Office of AIDS to develop and implement a statewide Master Plan on HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

AB 1907 (Santiago, Gipson, and Quirk-Silva)

Until January 1, 2029, exempts from environmental review under CEQA (the California Environmental Quality Act) certain activities approved by or carried out by a public agency in furtherance of providing emergency shelters, supportive housing, or affordable housing, as each is defined. The bill would require a lead agency that determines to carry out or approve an activity that is within this CEQA exemption to file a notice of exemption, as specified.

AB 1989 (Garcia)

Requires a package or box containing menstrual products that was manufactured for sale or distribution in this state on or after January 1, 2023, to have printed on the label a plain and conspicuous list of all ingredients in the product, by weight. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 2003 (Garcia)

Requires a community college to stock 50% of the school’s restrooms with feminine hygiene products, as defined. The bill would prohibit a community college from charging for any menstrual products, including feminine hygiene products, provided to students. Because this bill would impose new duties on community college districts, it would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB31 (Garcia, Bonta, González, Mathis)

Extends the exemption until January 1, 2027 of taxes on the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption of, menstrual hygiene products, defined as tampons, specified sanitary napkins, menstrual sponges, and menstrual cups, currently set to expire on January 1, 2022.

Stonewall Recommendation

Recommends that Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins allocate funding to specifically support TGI people and trans-led organizations across the state. TGI people experience significant barriers in society that have only been exacerbated by the coronavirus. Houselessness, economic instability, and difficulties in accessing health care are only a few of the barriers that have been deepened during the world’s response to the pandemic.

Stonewall Recommendation

Recommends that restaurants be allowed to submit plans that would enable them to operate as wholesale grocers, as long as social distancing guidelines are met; this was in response to County Health zealously shutting down restaurants who had converted to grocers in order to sell food (such as fresh fruit, etc.) to customers, even telling the restaurants they could not apply for a grocery license. As of April 28, 2020, restaurants had been able to reopen as grocers, saving jobs and small businesses, due to a pressure campaign from Stonewall Democratic Club and others.

CF 20-0147-S15

Requests the City Attorney draft an emergency ordinance, retroactive to March 1, 2020, creating a citywide worker retention policy, in which employers that take over workplaces following a change in ownership or in control through subcontracting shall give preference in hiring to workers previously employed at the same worksite, and not terminated for just cause, in order of seniority.

CF 20-0147-S19

Temporarily prohibits evictions of residential and commercial tenants for failure to pay rent due to COVID-19 and prohibits no-fault evictions of residential tenants if the tenant or any member of the household is ill, in isolation, or under quarantine due to COVID-19. This ordinance further suspends withdrawals of occupied residential units from the rental market under the Ellis Act, Government Code Section 7060, et seq.

CF 20-0147-S42

Enacts legal protections for workers laid off due to the pandemic.