Federal Parental Rights

Senate Bill 3571: the Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act. A bill to protect the right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children as a fundamental right.

House Resolution 5: the Parents Bill of Rights Act. Provides amendments to the elementary and secondary education act of 1965.

California Ballot Initiatives

The parent-child relationship predates government. Children are born into families, not governments. It is parents who are given the sole responsibility to raise their children. It is parents who know their children best, who walk with them through illnesses, comfort them in times of pain, rejoice with them in their successes, and see to it that they have what they need to flourish. In short, it is parents who parent their children.

Government schools and sports organizations are clearly overstepping their bounds. The people of California are sick and tired of it and have begun to push back. One way of doing so? We are working to get an initiative on the 2024 ballot here in California. The initiative, created by Protect Kids California, has three parts to it:

PREVENTS sterilization of children by prohibiting use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomies and genital surgeries for minors.
PROTECTS girls competitive sports and locker-room spaces to be for biological girls only.
REQUIRES schools to notify parents regarding a child's mental health concerns identtified in school settings, including gender identification issues.

This ballot initiative would circumvent the need to involve a non-responsive, disinterested, often hostile California legislature. Read the full text of the initiative.

California Bills

California bills are designated AB (Assembly Bill) or SB (Senate Bill). If you wish to post a letter in support or oposition to a bill, please make use of the California Legislature Position Letter Portal.

Bills We Support

**AB 1314 by Bill Essayli - Gender Identity: parental notification. Bill would provide that a parent or guardian has the right to be notified in writing within 3 days from the date any teacher, counselor, or employee of the school becomes aware that a pupil is identifying at school as a gender that does not align with the child's sex on their birth certificate, other official records, or sex assigned at birth, using sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, or using facilities that do not align with the child's sex on their birth certificate, other official records, or sex assigned at birth. The bill would state legislative intent related to these provisions. See Moms for Liberty (Santa Clara County) position.
**AB 1501 by Josh Hoover - Addition to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business. Bill would require a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes sexually explicit material on the internet from a sexually explicit website to use an age verification method that prevents minors from accessing sexually explicit material, and would make a commercial entity that violates these provisions liable to the parent or legal guardian of a minor who accessed the sexually explicit material, as specified.
*AB 19 by Joe Patterson - Pupil health: opioid antagonists.
*AB 802 by Joe Patterson and Sanchez - Curriculum right to examine. Passed the first commitee hearing!
*AB 95 by Josh Hoover - Intradistrict and interdistrict transfer of pupils.
*SB 31 by Jones - Encampments: sensitive areas: penalties. Bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within 1000 feet of a sensitive area, as defined- sensitive area means a school, day care, library.

Bills We Oppose

***AB 659 by Aguiar-Curry - Cancer Prevention Act. Bill was amended on 3/21 to no longer require students in grades 8-12 to get HPV vaccine in order to attend school. Bill now mandates HPV shot for college age students. See Moms for Liberty (Santa Clara County) position.
***AB 1078 by Jackson - Instructional materials: removing instructional materials and curriculum: diversity. Bill would require the state board to develop, by July 1, 2024, a policy for local educational agencies to follow before removing any instructional materials or ceasing to teach any curriculum; the policy would include, but not be limited to, a requirement that the local educational agency receive approval from the state board before removing any instructional materials or ceasing to teach any curriculum. The bill would additionally require the governing board of a school district receive approval from the state board and comply with any other applicable policies adopted by the state board before removing any books, publications, or papers from schools and school libraries. See Moms for Liberty (Santa Clara County) position.
***AB 665 by Carrillo - Minors: consent to mental health services. Bill will allow a child 12 years old to be placed in a gender affirming care home against the parents wishes.
**AB 598 by Wicks - Sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education: school climate and safety: California Healthy Kids Survey. Bill would revise the information included in this instruction related to local resources and abortion, as specified, and would require that pupils receive a physical or digital resource detailing certain local resources upon completion of the applicable instruction. Bill would require the State Department of Education to ensure the California Healthy Kids Survey includes questions about sexual and reproductive health care as a core survey module for pupils in grades 7, 9, and 11. The bill would require each school district serving pupils in any of grades 5, 7, 9, or 11 to administer the California Healthy Kids Survey to pupils in the applicable grades, as provided.
**AB 734 by McCarty - Adds Section 124242.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to youth athletics. Bill would, on and after January 1, 2026, prohibit a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or a youth tackle football league, from allowing a person younger than 12 years of age to be a youth tackle football participant through the organization or league.
*AB 5 by Zbur - Safe and Supportive Schools Program. Bill relates to LGBTQ+ narrative (making teachers take training to support LGBTQ+ at schools serving 7th-12th grade).
*AB 10 by Lowenthal - Pupil instruction: body-shaming.
*AB 223 by Ward - Change of gender and sex identifier.
*SB 36 by Skinner - Out-of-state criminal charges: prosecution related to abortion and gender-affirming care.
*SB 59 by Skinner - Menstrual Product Accessibility Act. Bill would require all women's restrooms, all all-gender restrooms, and at least one men's restroom in a building owned by the state or in the portion of a building where the state rents or leases office space, a building owned by a local government where a specified state-funded safety net program is administered, or in a hospital that receives state funds, as specified, to be stocked with menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible to employees and the public, free of cost, at all times.

Federal Bills

Federal bills are designated HR (House Resolution) or SB (Senate Bill).

Bills We Support

***HR 1585, the "Prohibiting Parental Secrecy Policies In Schools Act of 2023": This bill would require a State receiving funds pursuant to title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to implement a State policy to prohibit a school employee from conducting certain social gender transition interventions. See Moms for Liberty (California) position.

Bills We Oppose

*HR 571, the "SCHOOL Act of 2023": This bill would allow federal education funds "to follow the student ... whether learning in person or remotely, to the public school, private school, or home school they attend." The federal government has no business exerting influence via monies it controls (illegitimately).
*HR 463 and SB 105, the "Children Have Opportunities in Classrooms Everywhere Act": These bills would allow 529 plans to be used for elementary and secondary school expenses, including in private and home schools, and requires federal funding to be used for such plans. The federal government has no business exerting influence via monies it controls (illegitimately).
*HR 609, the "Education, Achievement, and Opportunity Act": This bill would create a refundable tax credit for education expenses, up to $10,000 for each student. The federal government has no business exerting influence via monies it controls (illegitimately).