In this Issue: Legislation in California
Summary of bills & action items from SAVECALIFORNIA.COM
Summary of legislation with action items from FREENOWFOUNDATION.ORG
From SAVE CALIFORNIA
Here's SaveCalifornia.com's social media Friday afternoon about the Democrats letting the harmful, threatening Gardasil bill go to the floor of the State Senate. I like Save California’s website. Randy Thomasson is the founder or leader. They are a Christian organization. I do not align with everything they believe, but I am more and more embracing their stances on children and families, as well as their medical freedom stand.
Among the hundreds of bad Democrat bills removed from the "suspense file" and passed in the Senate and Assembly appropriations committees Friday are:
AB 659 pushing harmful Gardasil jabs upon junior highers and college students
AB 5 forcing public-school employees into "LGBTQ cultural competency training"
AB 443 discriminating against moral/religious police officers and office candidates
AB 1078 taking away local control of school boards to make curriculum decisions
AB 576 funding all Medi-Cal chemical abortions. at taxpayer expense
SB 58 promoting a raft of "hallucinogenic substances" as "recreational drugs"
SB 274 eliminating suspensions/expulsions of willfully defiant teens (grades 9-12)
SB 345 forcing new costs on cities/counties for abortion/"LGBTQIA+" agenda
SB 407 punishing religious foster parents who don't support "LGBTQIA+"
SB 541 requiring "internal and external condoms" be available in grades 9-12
SB 596 empowering school boards to arrest "disorderly" parents at meetings
SB 729 requiring insurance to pay for artificial insemination of gays and trans
SB 760 forcing government schools, grades 1-12, to have an "all-gender restroom"
With immoral Democrats controlling three-fourths of each house of the State Legislature, which of these bills might Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom veto?
There have been signs for months that Newsom is sharpening his veto pen.
In the media, he's repeatedly mimicked his predecessor, Jerry Brown, saying it would not be "prudent" for the state budget to "imbalanced."
And on September 1, Newsom's Department of Finance representative was noticeably absent from the front table of the "suspense file" meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee, where "Finance" is regularly represented. Was this a boycott by the Newsom Administration after being told to get ready for lots of costly bills on his desk? It's plausible.
So, this is now a "donkey fight," where the blatantly bad Democrat legislators are challenging another evil Democrat, Governor Gavin Newsom, who, as long as his presidential hopes are alive, wants to put the brakes on additional spending.
NEW ACTION: Urge Newsom to veto these bad bills. Put on the pressure to remind him these radical bills are unpopular.
1. Call Newsom's constituent services office, Monday-Friday, 9-5 at 916-445-2841. When a staffer answers, they are a person paid to take your simple message of bills you are supporting or opposing. List all the bills in one phone call, but keep it brief.
2. Use Newsom's web form to oppose all these bad bills at once.
On this page, here are the steps:
1. Under "What is your request or comment about?", scroll to and select "Legislation Issues/Concerns"
2. Under "What is the purpose of your message?", select "Leave a Comment"
3. Click "Next" to go to the next page
4. Under "If applicable, what is your stance on this topic?, click "Con"
5. In the message field, simply write in all caps: VETO THESE COSTly BILLS, then copy and paste in SaveCalifornia.com one-sentence bill descriptions (from the above list)
6. Click "Next" to go to the next page
7. Enter your first and last name and email address (but not your phone number)
8. Click "Submit"
The California State Legislature will adjourn its 2023 session on September 14; the governor will have until October 14 to sign or veto bills.
From FREE NOW FOUNDATION
BAD BILLS UPDATE: Where we are in the Legislative Process. Where we need to get to in next 36 hours. Where we need to go in the 10 session days after that.
This is a republish of of the FLTJ Newsletter
AUG 31, 2023
There are two “sets” of bad bills making their way through the Capitol right now:
Bad Bills stuck in appropriations committees’ suspense files that need to move out of appropriations by this Friday, September 1, then – if they do – voted on and approved by both the Senate or Assembly floors by September 14.
AB5
AB659
AB1028
AB1078
SB407
SB596
Bad Bills on the Senate Floor “ordered to 3d reading,” or waiting to be voted on on the Senate Floor, that need to be voted on by both the Senate and Assembly Floors by September 14.
AB223
AB957
AB665
WHAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON RIGHT NOW:
Bad Bills that could die in Appropriations Suspense files this week. If these bills do not move out of suspense by Friday, they are dead for this Session and we will have less bills to monitor and kill on the Assembly and Senate Floors. Therefore:
SHARE THIS EMAIL WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then…
Call + Tweet + Instagram the Senate Appropriations Committee Members (minus Wiener) + Leadership (Speaker of Assembly Robert Rivas, Speaker of Senate Toni Atkins, Governor Newsom) asking them to KEEP THESE BILLS IN SUSPENSE due to their significant financial impact on a failing CA state and lack of value:
Assembly Bill 5 (Zbur, D-Los Angeles): makes teacher and staff training to create a “safe and supportive learning environment” for LGBQT+ and questioning pupils compulsory; training includes how to profile possible LGBQT+ students and “LGBQT+ hostile” families; show students how to change name and gender ID, access opposite-sex facilities and health care services, locate organizations that support LGBQT+ youth (e.g. residential shelters, Glitter Families, Chosen Families), and form secret clubs; no training on how to support desisting or de-transitioner pupils.
Assembly Bill 659 (Aguiar-Curry, D-Napa, Yolo, Sonoma): state-sanctioned false advertising, fear-mongering, and propaganda for Big Pharma companies (Merck will be the first) to send out letters to every 6th grade-aged child advising them of the State’s “recommendation” that they be fully immunized against HPV before admission or advancement to 8th grade. The D.O.F determined this bill is duplicative and not necessary due to prior legislation, the fact that children 12+ already have access to the HPV vaccine, and schools currently include standardized curriculum regarding sexually transmitted diseases.
AB1028 (Wicks-D, Berkeley, Piedmont; Wiener, D-SF): will remove the requirement that a health practitioner report to law enforcement when they suspect a patient has suffered been assaulted or abused unless the injury is by firearm, child abuse, or elder abuse. Need we say more?
Assembly Bill 1078 (Jackson, D-Riverside): strips local school boards of their authority to decide what curriculum and materials are best-suited for their community’s values and needs by defunding, investigating, and fining school districts and doxing individual board members for rejecting State-selected content; prohibiting removal of “diverse” or “inclusive” materials; and raising threshold for removing “any other” materials from simple majority to 2/3 majority vote.
Gavin Newsom (916) 445-2841:
3. Call + Tweet + Instagram the Assembly Appropriations Committee Members (minus Wilson, Carrillo) + Leadership (Speaker of Assembly Robert Rivas, Speaker of Senate Toni Atkins, Governor Newsom) asking them to KEEP THESE BILLS IN SUSPENSE due to their significant financial impact on a failing CA state and lack of value:
Senate Bill 407 (Wiener, D-SF): requires potential foster care families to “sign a document” promising to affirm children in their care, regardless of other factors that might be at play, and be subjected to additional “assessments,” or otherwise be disqualified from fostering. Over 60% of foster families are religious and would not be able to affirm a child as conflicting with their religious beliefs. Therefore, SB407 will eliminate over 60% of the eligible foster family pool and leave even more foster children in the already overburdened foster care system.
Senate Bill 596 (Portantino, D-Los Angeles): silences and criminalizes concerned adult citizens demanding answers and solutions from elected officials by jailing them up to 1 year and/or fining them up to $1,000 for “substantially disrupting” a board meeting, or harassing or threatening school board members. [Note: we do not condone harassing or threatening anyone ever; however, because there are current laws prohibiting this (e.g. PC 422, 646.9) SB596 is unnecessary given its chilling effect on legitimate exercises of constitutionally-protected, fundamental rights].
Gavin Newsom (916) 445-2841:
ONCE THESE BILLS ARE DEAD, WE WILL RETURN OUR FOCUS BACK TO KILLING THESE BILLS ON THE SENATE FLOOR:
Assembly Bill 957 (Wiener, D-San Francisco, Wilson, D-Solano, Contra Costa): defines “health, safety and welfare of a child” as affirming gender identity(ies); will require judges to favor affirming parent in awarding custody, withholding custody from non-affirming parent; where neither parent affirms, child can become a ward of the state.
Status: Senator Tom Umberg is the jockey. Can be brought to vote any day.
TO DO:
(1) Call Senator Umberg and tell him how disappointed you are he is jockeying this bill, why, that you are watching his political aspirations, register your opposition and ask him NOT to bring it to floor vote.
(2) Call your Senator, register opposition, ask for meetings, share your concerns. Any one of these reps can flip and abstain on these bills.
(3) Call your Assemblymember because if this bill passes out of the Senate, it has to go BACK to Assembly for concurrence vote.
AB223 (Ward, D-Coronado, Del Mar, etc): any adult can change a minor’s name, gender, or sex ID confidentially.
Status: Senator Alex Padilla is the jockey. Can be brought to vote any day.
TO DO:
(1) Call Senator Padilla and Umberg-him.
(2) Call your Senator, as above.
(3) Call your Assemblymember, as above.
Assembly Bill 665 (Weiner, D-San Francisco, Carrillo, D-Los Angeles): allows children as young as 12 to run away from home and into a government “residential shelter” without notice to parents for any reason; removes current requirements that the child be victim of abuse or incest or in danger before moving into government custody; allows the child – rather than a professional person – to decide whether to involve parents in mental health services; expands definition of “professional person” to include interns, apprentices, and trainees.
Status: no jockey assigned yet, therefore, cannot be brought to vote.
RISE UP!
RESOURCES:
🔍 Find your rep 👉🏽https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
☎️ Senate Approps Members 👉🏽 https://sapro.senate.ca.gov/member-staff-roster
☎️ Assembly Approps Members 👉🏽 https://apro.assembly.ca.gov/membersstaff