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Below are the some of the worst bills introduced here in 2024 in the California State Assembly and State Senate. We are regularly updating and adding to this page, so please check back soon.

Assembly Bills

AB 941 by Republican Marie Waldron would require the State to embark on a path of legalization of "hallucinogenic or psychedelic substances," despite the fact that a "stoned" society is NOT a safe society.
Status | Votes: This bad bill passed the Assembly floor on Jan. 30 with the yes votes of 53 Democrats and 5 Republicans (Alanis, Essayli, Flora, Waldron, Wallis).

AB 1810 by 3 Democrat assemblymembers requires prisons, jails, juvenile detention centers, etc. to stock "menstrual products" for all inmates' "ready access," including at men's and boys' facilities.
Status | Votes: This bill has been referred to the Assembly Public Safety Committee

AB 1825 by 2 Democrats would prohibit public (government-controlled) libraries "from banning books for partisan or political reasons or in a manner that is motivated by animus based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, or socioeconomic status." But will this bill make libraries -- especially "public school" libraries -- worse by prohibiting ones in conservative communities from get rid of books promoting pornography, homosexuality/bisexuality/transsexuality, abortion, witchcraft, stealing, communism, or racism? How can this bill be trusted to protect conservative or Bible-based or founding fathers' writings, for example?Status | Votes: This bill has not yet been assigned to a committee

AB 2030 by Republican Laurie Davies would permit state agencies to award contracts up to $250,000 to an "LGBT business enterprise," defined as "a business enterprise that is at least 51-percent owned by a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender person or persons, or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender persons, and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of those individuals."
Status | Votes: This bad bill has been assigned to the Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy (JEDE) Committee

AB 2085 by Democrat Rebecca Bauer-Kahan would push baby-killing by open up more abortion clinics. The author claims her bill will "expand access to health care," yet has made clear she sees pro-life Californians as the enemy: "Some communities in California are complete reproductive health care deserts, yet local anti-abortion groups are still creating roadblocks for clinic development." Deceptive and slick, AB 2085 would radically lower approval standards, and eliminate local control by permitting California's Attorney General to enforce its pro-abortion dominance.
Status | Votes: This bad bill has not yet been assigned to a committee

AB 2099 by Democrat Rebecca Bauer-Kahan pushes more baby-killing by imposing harsh penalties upon peaceful pro-lifers who are offering factual information and adoption services to pregnant women who are being roped in by Planned Parenthood abortionists. This anti-free-speech bill would subjectively and tyrannically define peaceful pro-life "sidewalk counselors" that approach or call out to pregnant women -- as being guilty of a new felony of "intimidate, interfere with, oppress." In addition to punishing peaceful pro-life Californians, this awful bill would trample their constitutional free speech outside abortuaries.
Status | Votes: This bill has been referred to the Assembly Public Safety Committee

AB 2319 by a dozen Democrats would replace "mother" with "all birthing people, including nonbinary persons and persons of transgender experience," and would force "all health care providers involved in perinatal care" at hospitals and alternative birth centers, under threat of penalty, into brainwashing training teaching them to believe and speak unscientific fallacies biological females can be biological males, and vice versa.

As the Democrat-run Legislative Counsel's Office describes AB 2319: "This bill would make a legislative finding that the Legislature recognizes all birthing people, including nonbinary persons and persons of transgender experience. The bill would extend the evidence-based implicit bias training requirements to also include hospitals that provide perinatal or prenatal care, as defined. The bill would require an implicit bias program to include recognition of intersecting identities and the potential associated biases. The bill would require initial basic training for the implicit bias program to be completed by June 1, 2025, for current health care providers, and within 6 months of their start date for new health care providers, unless exempted. The bill would require, by February 1 of each year, that a facility provide the department with proof of compliance, with specified requirements. The bill would authorize the department to issue an administrative penalty if it determines that a facility has violated these provisions, and would require the department to annually post on its internet website a list of facilities that did not submit timely proof of compliance and have been issued administrative penalties. The bill would specify that, for these purposes, each health care provider that does not complete the required training constitutes a separate violation. The bill would vest the State Department of Public Health with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to implement and enforce the California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act. The bill would require the department to solicit participation and adopt regulations to further the purposes of the act, as specified."
Status | Votes: This bad bill has not yet been assigned to a committee

AB 2711 by Democrat James Ramos would eliminate smoking, alcohol drinking, and using drugs as grounds for suspension or expulsion at government-controlled schools. The bill will "remove unlawfully possessing, using, or being under the influence of a controlled substance, an alcoholic beverage, or an intoxicant of any kind from the list of acts for which a pupil, regardless of their grade of enrollment, may be suspended or recommended for expulsion for." By removing current penalties for bad behavior, AB 2711 would instead promote as acceptable children who are "stoned" or drunk.
Status | Votes: This bad bill has not yet been assigned to a committee

AB 2226 by 7 Democrats would eliminate the long-standing kindergarten option in California, replacing it with a kindergarten mandate, trampling parents' right to wait until their own child is more developed, at 6 years of age, to begin formal education.
Status | Votes: This bad bill has not yet been assigned to a committee
 
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