AB 249 – Lead Testing – Holden – Amended and Vetoed – A Huge Victory!
This bill would have required inspections of school sites to determine the lead content in available drinking water. If the water was not up to state standards, any retrofitting deemed necessary would have been required to be done at the school’s expense. It would have required home schools to undergo the same testing and retrofitting procedures (at the family’s expense) until FPM’s amendment exempted all private schools.
AB 659 – Mandatory HPV Vaccines – Aguiar-Curry – FPM’s Amendments Accepted – A Huge Victory
As introduced, this bill would have required all children in California to receive the HPV vaccine without the exemptions that apply to other vaccines. The bill also would have created multiple new requirements for private schools regarding paperwork, reporting and verification for these proposed requirements. FPM pursued multiple amendments and worked with the author’s office to remove all mandatory aspects of the vaccine requirements and reporting for private schools and homeschools.
AB 665 – Minors Consent to Mental Health Services – Carrillo – PASSED – A Dangerous Precedent
This bill allows any minor 12 or older to consent to mental health care without the parents’ foreknowledge, up to and including being placed in a care home outside of parental authority.
SB 767 – Mandatory Kindergarten – Rubio – Amended By FPM and Shelved – A Temporary Victory
Before FPM’s amendments, this bill would have required all California students in both public and private schools to complete a year of kindergarten before entering first grade. FPM’s amendments exempted all private schools from this requirement. This bill is expected to move forward or come back in a new version in the near future.
AB 262 – Children’s Camps Regulation – Holden – Amended and Pulled By Author – A Huge Victory
This bill would have set up an oversight committee to determine regulations for children’s camps. These regulations could have easily been applied to homeschool groups and co-ops. This new set of burdensome regulations had the potential to make many co-ops and homeschool class days impractical to operate.
AB 1057 – Social Worker Home Visits – Weber – Vetoed – A Surprising Victory
This bill would have established a home visitation program for new parents through the Department of Public Health. Under the program, a social worker would have been assigned to every newborn in California. Social workers would have been required to “encourage” families to enroll their infants in a range of government programs designed to engage families in a full-service, government-controlled system of family care from cradle to grave.
ACA 9 – Superintendent of Public Instruction: Appointment – McCarty – Withdrawn – A Big Victory
This Constitutional Amendment would have changed the position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction from an elected position to one appointed by the Governor, giving the governor significantly more control over education.
AB 957 – Affirming Parent Gets The Kids – Wilson – Vetoed – An Encouraging Victory
This bill, if made into law, would take into consideration the parents’ stance on gender-affirming language and acceptance of their child’s sexual orientation and identity as a factor in deciding custody. It would add an extra consideration for the judge to alter the outcome of a custody agreement.
SB 407 – Foster Care: Resource Families – Wiener – PASSED – A Dangerous Precedent
This bill requires foster care families to affirm any current or potentially future chosen “gender identity” of their foster children or risk losing their rights as foster parents. Foster parents will have to sign what is essentially a “statement of faith” regarding the state’s position on gender identity in order to continue as foster parents. The Governor has signed this bill into law.
AB 816 – Minors Consent to Medical Care – Haney – PASSED – A Dangerous Precedent
This bill allows a minor who is 16 years or older to consent to treatment for narcotics abuse without parental consent.