Urgent Legislative Action Alert — 2025–2026 California Legislative Session
Issue Areas: Parental Rights · Family
Author
Asm. Mark González (D) (Assembly District 54)
Status
Passed the Assembly. Held on the Senate Appropriations suspense file in early August 2026; released and read a second time, ordered to third reading in the Senate on August 13, 2026. Awaiting a Senate floor vote.
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Our Position: Oppose
Why This Matters
AB 1540 directs California’s Health and Human Services Agency and Office of Emergency Services to build a dedicated routing option (reported at roughly $5 million in state resources) within the federal 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline so that callers who identify as LGBTQ+ — including minors — are steered to specialized, identity-affirming crisis organizations rather than the general 988 system.
Parents, not government agencies, bear the God-given responsibility to walk their children through a crisis. AB 1540 quietly writes parents out of the picture, building a taxpayer-funded pipeline that routes children in a mental health emergency toward organizations committed in advance to one ideological viewpoint on identity, with no requirement that moms and dads ever be told. A crisis line should exist to save a child’s life, full stop — not to sort that child by identity and hand them off to an advocacy network behind their parents’ backs. Every family in California should be alarmed that their tax dollars may fund exactly that.
Take Action Now
AB 1540 has already cleared committee and could be voted on by the full Senate soon.
1Contact your state senator immediately and urge a NO vote on AB 1540.
2Demand that any crisis-line funding include real parental notification and involvement protections.
3Share this alert — parents across California are being kept in the dark about this bill.
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Sources: California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, Bill AB-1540); LegiScan bill tracking; Assembly and Senate committee bill analyses. Status current as of August 15, 2026.
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Urgent Legislative Action Alert — 2025–2026 California Legislative Session
Issue Areas: Life · Education · Parental Rights
Author
Asm. Catherine Stefani (D) (Assembly District 19)
Status
Passed the Assembly. Amended and re-referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee; advanced out of committee in early August 2026. Pending further Senate action ahead of the end-of-session deadline.
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Our Position: Oppose
Why This Matters
AB 2540 builds on the 2019 law that already requires University of California and California State University student health centers to offer medication (chemical) abortion. This bill extends that mandate to California Community Colleges: campuses with student health centers would be required to offer or facilitate access to abortion pills, along with mandated promotion and awareness campaigns, phased in starting in 2029 contingent on state funding.
Community college campuses should be places where young people — many still teenagers — receive real support, not a taxpayer-funded push toward chemical abortion. AB 2540 turns student health centers into promotional arms for the abortion industry while offering nothing comparable for students who want to carry their pregnancies to term. Parents who send their sons and daughters to a California community college deserve to know campus health services will support life, not quietly steer students away from it. This bill puts ideology ahead of the wellbeing of young women at one of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.
Take Action Now
AB 2540 is moving through the Senate Appropriations process and could be scheduled for a floor vote at any time.
1Contact your state senator now and urge a NO vote on AB 2540.
2Ask that any future health funding for community college students go toward pregnancy resource support and life-affirming alternatives instead.
3Forward this alert to other parents, pastors, and community leaders — most Californians have no idea this bill exists.
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Sources: California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, Bill AB-2540); LegiScan bill tracking; CalMatters, “Abortion pills could come to California community college health centers” (July 2026). Status current as of August 15, 2026.
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Urgent Legislative Action Alert — 2025–2026 California Legislative Session
Issue Areas: Religious Liberty · Life · Family
Author
Asm. Dawn Addis (D) (Assembly District 30)
Status
Passed the Assembly. Read a second time in the Senate and ordered to third reading on August 4, 2026. Awaiting a Senate floor vote.
Track It
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Our Position: Oppose
Why This Matters
AB 1876 amends California’s Health and Safety Code and Insurance Code to bar health plans and insurers from excluding or limiting coverage based on “sex characteristics,” “sex assigned at birth,” or “gender identity.” In practice, the bill requires health plans to cover so-called “gender-affirming” interventions — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures — as a matter of nondiscrimination law, with violations treated as regulatory and potentially criminal offenses.
AB 1876 forces every Californian with health insurance — including churches, Christian schools, pregnancy centers, and families who hold sincere religious convictions about the body and human sexuality — to help underwrite irreversible procedures many believe are morally and medically wrong, with no conscience protection whatsoever. This is not nondiscrimination; it is compelled participation. No person of faith, no religious employer, and no medical professional should be forced by the state to pay for a procedure that violates their conscience — especially one performed on a minor.
Take Action Now
AB 1876 is one Senate floor vote away from passage.
1Call and email your state senator today and insist on a NO vote on AB 1876.
2Ask your senator to protect conscience rights for religious employers, insurers, and health care providers.
3Alert your church, Christian school, or ministry — this bill affects their health plans too.
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Sources: California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, Bill AB-1876); LegiScan bill tracking; Assembly Health Committee bill analysis. Status current as of August 15, 2026.
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Urgent Legislative Action Alert — 2025–2026 California Legislative Session
Issue Areas: Public Safety · Child Protection
Author
Asm. Dawn Addis (D) (Assembly District 30)
Status
Passed the Assembly. Amended and read a third time in the Senate on August 4, 2026, then ordered to second reading following further amendment. Pending further Senate action.
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Our Position: Oppose Current Version — Support Only If Restored
Why This Matters
AB 2691, the Public Trust Protection Act, was introduced with a goal that traditional-values advocates broadly support: barring individuals convicted of certain sex crimes or human trafficking offenses from holding state or local elective office, adding those offenses to the existing list of disqualifying felonies (bribery, embezzlement of public funds, extortion, perjury, and related conspiracy).
Protecting children from predators should never be a partisan issue, and lawmakers of every stripe should be able to unite behind keeping convicted sex offenders and traffickers out of public office. But the version now moving through the Legislature has been quietly weakened to exempt certain offenders who victimized 14-to-17-year-olds, along with other loopholes. A bill that claims to protect the public trust while carving out exceptions for crimes against teenagers does not deserve that name. California families deserve real protection — not a watered-down bill designed to look tough while leaving the door open.
Take Action Now
AB 2691 could reach the Senate floor in its current, weakened form at any time.
1Contact your state senator today and urge a NO vote on the current version of AB 2691.
2Demand that lawmakers restore full protections with no exemptions for crimes against minors.
3Share this alert — most Californians assume this bill already does what its name promises.
Track This BillFind Your Legislator
Sources: California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, Bill AB-2691); LegiScan bill tracking; Antioch Herald / Contra Costa Herald reporting (August 2026). Status current as of August 15, 2026.
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Urgent Legislative Action Alert — 2025–2026 California Legislative Session
Issue Areas: Religious Liberty · Family
Author
Sen. Scott Wiener (D) (Senate District 11)
Status
Passed the Senate. Amended in the Assembly and passed committee on an 11-4 vote on August 13, 2026. Pending further Assembly action ahead of a floor vote.
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Our Position: Oppose
Why This Matters
SB 934 expands California’s existing ban on sexual-orientation “change efforts” to explicitly cover gender-identity change efforts by licensed mental health providers. It also creates an unusually long statute of limitations for civil damages claims — up to 22 years for conduct occurring when the patient was a minor, or 10 years for adults — and revives previously time-barred claims dating back to January 1, 2009, exposing counselors to lawsuits over conduct from more than 15 years ago.
SB 934 is a direct assault on the freedom of pastors, biblical counselors, and faith-based therapists to walk alongside clients who voluntarily seek help aligning their lives with their own religious convictions. By reviving claims from as far back as 2009 and extending the statute of limitations for decades, this bill isn’t primarily about protecting anyone from harm — it functions as a legal weapon designed to bankrupt faith-based counseling ministries into silence and closure. Every Californian who believes in the free exercise of religion and the right to seek counsel consistent with their own faith should be deeply concerned.
Take Action Now
SB 934 has already passed the Senate and is advancing through the Assembly.
1Contact your Assembly member today and demand a NO vote on SB 934.
2Ask your representative to defend the right of faith-based counselors to serve willing clients without fear of retroactive lawsuits.
3Share this alert with every pastor, counselor, and ministry leader you know — this bill directly threatens their ability to serve.
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Sources: California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, Bill SB-934); LegiScan bill tracking; Senate Judiciary Committee bill analysis. Status current as of August 15, 2026.
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Urgent Legislative Action Alert — 2025–2026 California Legislative Session AB 1973 — Abortion: Authorized Procedures Issue Areas: Life · Women’s Health Author Asm. Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D) (Assembly District 4) Status
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Statewide Office
Governor – Steve Hilton
Lieutenant Governor – Gloria Romero
Attorney General – Michael Gates
Secretary of State – Don Wagner
State Controller – Herb Morgan
State Treasurer – Jennifer Hawks
Insurance Commissioner – No Endorsement
Superintendent of Public Instruction – Sonja Shaw
Statewide Ballot Measures
YES on 39 – Voter ID
YES on 43 – Stop Tax Hikes
State Board of Equalization
District 1 – Shannon Grove
District 4 – Denis Bilodeau
U.S. House of Representatives
District 5 – Tom McClintock
District 8 – Rudy Recile
District 9 – John McBride
District 18 – Shane Lewis
District 23 – Jay Obernolte
District 25 – Joe Males
District 27 – Jason Gibbs
District 28 – April Verlato
District 32 – Larry Thompson
District 35 – Mike Cargile
District 36 – Houston Brignano
District 38 – Pedro Antonio Casas
District 40 – Ken Calvert
District 42 – Brian Burley
District 43 – Cristian Morales
District 45 – Chuong Vo
District 46 – David Pan
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California State Senate
District 2 – Tief Gibbs
District 6 – Roger Niello
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District 30 – Araceli Martinez
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California State Assembly
District 3 – Dom Belza
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District 60 – Ed Delgado
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District 64 – Raul Ortiz Jr.
District 65 – Lydia Gutierrez
District 70 – Tri Ta
District 71 – Kate Sanchez
District 72 – Gracie Van Der Mark
District 73 – Urson Russell
District 79 – Andrew Lawson
El Dorado County
El Dorado County Board of Supervisors, District 4 – Ted Gaines
Fresno County
County Superintendent of Schools Eimear O’Brien
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it is fitting to recall how this momentous day was perceived by one of the most important figures in the creation and adoption of the Declaration, John Adams (1735–1826), Founding Father and second president of the United States (1797 to 1801).
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress concluded its debate and approved the Lee Resolution (also known as “The Resolution for Independence”):
Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Reflecting on “The Resolution for Independence” in a letter to his wife Abigail on July 3, John Adams wrote:
The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.
As it turned out, we came to celebrate our independence on July 4, the day the Second Continental Congress approved the final draft of the Declaration of Independence, and not on July 2, the day “The Resolution for Independence” was passed.
Like Adams, I hope that you will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with pomp, parade, games, feasting, fireworks, shows, and solemn acts of devotion to God for the blessings of Liberty.
Happy 250th Independence Day,
Carl Brickey, PresidentCalifornia Republican Assembly
Updated: July 1, 2026 Statewide Office Governor – Steve Hilton Lieutenant Governor – Gloria Romero Attorney General – Michael Gates Secretary of State – Don Wagner State Controller – Herb Morgan State Treasurer – Jennifer Hawks Insurance Commissioner – No Endorsement Superintendent of Public Instruction – Sonja Shaw State Board of Equalization District 1 –
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As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it is fitting to recall how this momentous day was perceived by one of the most important figures in the creation and adoption of the Declaration, John Adams (1735–1826), Founding Father and second president of the United States (1797 to 1801).
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