Posted on 06/30/2006 7:49:06 PM PDT by calcowgirl
The following GLBT related legislation is currently in process in the California Legislature. While some of these bills sound generic in nature, all are being supported by major GLBT activist organizations in California as advancing homosexual rights.
AB 606 - Safe Place to Learn Act
Assemblymember Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys)
Would require school districts to establish and publicize an antidiscrimination and antiharassment policy that prohibits discrimination and harassment as specified under current law, including, but not limited to, actual or perceived gender identity and sexual orientation and provides penalties for school districts found to be in violation of that law, including withholding relevant state funding to school districts.Status: Passed by Assembly. Awaiting a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
AB 1056 - Tolerance Education Pilot Program
Assemblymember Chu, D-Monterey Park
Would require the State Board of Education to develop a pilot project integrating intergroup relations and tolerance curriculum into the English and Social Science framework. Would direct the Board of Education to consult with human relations commissions and individuals and groups that are protected by California’s hate crimes legislation. Defines tolerance to mean "attitudes and behaviors that convey respect toward individuals and groups, especially those individuals and groups that have been, and continue to be, systematically and historically marginalized. Tolerance does not mean a passive allowance or indulgence of the beliefs or practices of another individual."Status: Received a 51-28 vote on the Assembly Floor. Currently in the Senate Committee on Education suspense file.
AB 1160 - Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act
Assemblymember Sally Lieber (D-San Jose)
Would amend jury instructions to state that the use of societal bias, including so-called "panic strategies," to influence any criminal trial or proceeding is not permitted. It would also appropriate $125,000 to the Office of the Attorney General to develop materials for county prosecutors explaining how panic strategies are used to encourage jurors to respond to societal bias and providing best practices for preventing bias from affecting the outcome of a trial. This legislation is named in the memory of a transgender teenager from Newark, Calif., who was attacked and killed in 2002.Status: Passed by State Assembly. In Senate Committee on Public Safety.
AB 1207 - Code of Fair Campaign Practices
Speaker pro Tem Leland Yee (D-San Francisco)
Would prohibit the use of any negative appeal based on sexual orientation or gender identity by candidates or campaign committees who sign the voluntary pledge provided for in the Code of Fair Campaign Practices.Status: Passed by Assembly. This bill is currently in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 2051 - Equality in Prevention and Services for Domestic Abuse Act
Assemblymember Rebecca Cohn (D-Saratoga)
Would establish the Equality in Prevention and Services for Domestic Abuse Fund, a continuously appropriated fund to establish training and services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) victims of domestic violence. The fund would support a variety of initiatives, including an educational brochure on LGBT domestic abuse to be distributed along with domestic partnership certificates, grants to support shelters that serve LGBT victims of domestic abuse, and LGBT-specific trainings for law enforcement and domestic violence service providers.Status: Passed by Assembly. This bill will next be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
AB 2076 - Drug paraphernalia: clean needle and syringe exchange projects.
Assemblymember Laird, D-Santa Cruz
Would allow state General Funds for HIV prevention to support locally-authorized needle exchange programs and allow such programs to use funds to purchase sterile hypodermic needles and syringes.Status: Passed Assembly 45-34. Currently in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 2371 - Employment arbitration agreements
Assemblymember Levine, D-Van Nuys
Would require that arbitration agreements between employers and employees be voluntary for sexual orientation and other employment discrimination claims under the Fair Employment and Housing Act. Specifies that a FEHA-covered employer may not take adverse employment action against a person for refusing to waive these protections and procedures, and would make unenforceable any arbitration agreement between an employer and employee contrary to the bill's provision.Status: Passage refused by the Assembly on a 38-39 vote.
AB 2386 - Code of Fair Campaign Practices
Assembly Member Jenny Oropeza, D-Carson
Would require the California Secretary of State to post the Code of Fair Campaign Practices on his or her website, along with a list of candidates for state or federal office who have subscribed to the code. The passage of this bill and AB 1207 would allow Californians to know which candidates have agreed to avoid campaign practices that denigrate lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons.Status: Passed the Assembly. Currently in the Senate Committee on Elections, Reapportionment, and Constitutional Amendments.
AB 2510 - Pupils: survey: harassment
Assembly Member Ted Lieu, D-El Segundo
Requires local education agencies to administer a survey of the experience of pupils with harassment and bullying, including bias-related discrimination and harassment based on race, religion, disability, and actual or perceived gender identity and sexual orientation as specified in current law and require the Attorney General to prepare an annual report based on these surveys.Status: Passed the Assembly on a 50-30 vote. This bill is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
AB 2800 - Civil Rights Housing Act of 2006
Assemblymember John Laird (D-Santa Cruz)
Would standardize various housing-related nondiscrimination provisions in California law to make them consistent with the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) which prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, sex (including gender identity), marital status, sexual orientation, familial status and source of income. AB 2800 is the third bill in a series of nondiscrimination bills authored by Assemblymember Laird to modify major sections of the California Code to specify that people are protected from discrimination regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. (See also AB 2900, Employment: Discrimination, passed in 2004 and AB 1400, The Unruh Civil Rights Act of 2005 signed in November 2005)Status: Passed by Assembly on a 48-31 vote. To be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 2920 - Older Californians Equality and Protection Act
Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)
Would amend the Welfare and Institutions Act to add actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as other categories currently protected under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), to the list of factors that the Department of Aging and Area Agencies on Aging consider when assessing the need for state services and planning how to implement them.Status: Passed Assembly. This bill is currently in the Senate Committee on Human Services.
SB 1437 - Bias Free Cirriculum Act
Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica)
Prohibits instruction, or the adoption of any instructional material, that reflects adversely on persons due to sexual orientation. Revises the social sciences course of study to include study of the role and contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender to the development of California and the nation with emphasis on their role in contemporary society.Status: Passed by the Senate with a 22-15 vote. This bill is now in the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
SB 1441 - Nondiscrimination in State Programs and Activities
Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica)
Would add "sexual orientation" to the characteristics on which discrimination may not be based, in any program or activity that is conducted, operated, or administered by the state or any state agency or by any agency funded directly by the state or that receives any financial assistance from the state. The bill also would incorporate the definition of "sex" and "sexual orientation" contained in the Fair Employment and Housing Act into this provision relating to state and state-fundedprograms or activities, and clarify that the perception of any of the characteristics listed in the anti-discrimination statute is also covered.
Status: Passed the Senate 23-15. This bill is currently in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 1827 - State Income Tax Equity Act of 2006
Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco)
Amends the tax and family codes to enable registered domestic partners to require registered domestic partners to file a personal income tax return jointly or separately by applying the standards applicable to married couples under federal income tax law.Status: Passed by Senate on a 25-13 vote. This bill is currently in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 1654 - Voting: absentee ballot
Senator Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento
Existing law authorizes eligible voters to vote by absentee ballot and authorizes a county elections official to deliver an absentee ballot to the absent voter's spouse or parent. This bill would additionally authorize delivery of an absentee ballot to the absentee voter's child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling, or a person residing in the same household as the absent voter, who is 16 years of age or older. This would include any cohabitating domestic partner.Status: Passed the Senate on a 21-14 vote. Currently in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
All of these bills are identified on the website of Equality California, a well funded California’s LGBT civil rights and advocacy organization, who has sponsored much of the legislation. The status of each bill was taken from their website.
PING! FYI
We recognize that the two-parent family provides the best environment of stability, discipline, charity and responsibility. We commend and support those single parents who struggle to maintain stable homes for their families. We resist the efforts of the liberals in the Democrat Party to redefine the traditional family. We offer the Republican Party as an option to all who are concerned about the deterioration of the American family.Recognizing the traditional model of monogamous heterosexual marriage as the only stable relationship upon which to build a society, we believe that homosexuality should not be presented as an acceptable "alternative" lifestyle in public education and policy. We oppose granting to homosexuals special privileges, including marriage, domestic partnership benefits, and child custody or adoption.
Assemblymembers' Phone Numbers and AddressesSenators' Phone Numbers and Addresses
You can also call the Governor's offices at any of the following numbers and let him know what you think:
916-445-2841 (Sacramento)
619-525-4641 (San Diego)
213-897-0322 (Los Angeles)
559-445-5295 (Fresno)
951-680-6860 (Riverside)Their automated phone system is currently asking for input on AB 606 and SB 1439
(but you can specify any bill number using their automated system.)
"No Republican governor in California history has promoted transsexuality, bisexuality and homosexuality like Arnold Schwarzenegger has. In the last three years, Schwarzenegger has delighted homosexual activists by signing most of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) bills that the Democrat-controlled Legislature has placed on his desk. "
--Randy Thomasson, President, Campaign for Children and Families [Source]"Since taking office in 2003, has signed two dozen bills in support of rights for the gay and lesbian communities." [Source]
"The attempt to pass gay marriage was a cynical attempt to embarrass a governor who, up until that point, had been recognized by Equality California and the Human Rights Campaign as the most gay-friendly governor in history."
--Ralph Denney, Log Cabin Candidate for California Assembly (San Diego-AD 76), [Source]
"Woe unto those who call evil good..."
Legislation Vetoed in by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2005
• AB 849 - The Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Protection Act [Vetoed 09/29/05]
Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez (D- Los Angeles)
Existing law provides that marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman (Prop 22 - Family Code). This bill would instead provide that marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between 2 persons. (formerly known as AB 19)
• AB 866 - Code of Fair Campaign Practices [Vetoed 09/07/05]
Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/Daly City)
This bill would add to the pledge contained in the Code of Fair Campaign Practices that the candidate will not use or permit any appeal to negative prejudice based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Thanks for the ping, calcowgirl! DBeers is now the controller of the Homosexual Agenda ping list, I'm sure he'd appreciate if you ping him to relevant articles.
I couldn't find all two dozen bills signed since Arnold took office (that Thomasson refers to), but here are some of them.
Legislation Signed in 2005
• SB 565 by Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) - Property tax reappraisal exclusion: domestic partners.
Prior to this bill, there was no domestic partner exclusion that equates to the interspousal exclusion. This bill establishes an exclusion from reassessment for transfers of real property between registered domestic partners. The author indicated that the bill is intended "to guarantee equality for all Californians, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, and to further the state's interests in protecting Californians from the potentially severe economic and social consequences of abandonment, separation, the death of a partner, and other life crises."• SB 973 by Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) - Public employees' retirement: domestic partners.
Bill amends the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), and the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 to entitle retired members to elect to change optional retirement allowances to provide for their domestic partners.• AB 228 by Assemblymember Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) - Transplantation services: human immunodeficiency virus.
Prohibits health care service plans (health plans) and health insurers from denying coverage for organ or tissue transplantation services on the basis that an enrollee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder is infected with HIV.• AB 1142 by Assemblymember Marvyn Dymally (D-Compton) - HIV/AIDS: African-Americans: statewide initiative.
This bill establishes the Statewide African-American Initiative to address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on the health of African-Americans by coordinating prevention and service networks around the state in an effort to increase the capacity of core service providers.• AB 1586 by Assemblymember Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) - Insurers: health care service plans: discrimination.
This bill adds additional language to existing anti-discrimination provisions under the Health and Safety Code and the Insurance Code to clarify that state law prohibits insurance companies and health care service plans from discriminating on the basis of gender in the creation or maintenance of service contracts or the provision of benefits or coverage. Defines the term "sex," in existing law that prohibits health care service plans (health plans) and insurers from specified discriminatory acts, to have the same meaning as "gender," as defined under the Penal Code, as specified.• AB 1400 by Assemblymember John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) - Unruh Civil Rights Act: marital status and sexual orientation
The Unruh Civil Rights Act (Act) provides that all persons, regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, or medical condition are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges and services in all business establishments of every kind. This bill clarifies that marital status and sexual orientation are among the characteristics that are protected against discrimination by business establishments under the Act. This bill also imports into the Act definitions of the terms "disability," "religion," "sex," and "sexual orientation" from the Fair Employment and Housing Act, and includes, in enumerating the above characteristics, the perception of those characteristics and association with a person who has or is perceived to have those characteristics as being within the protected categories. These definitions will be integrated into other related provisions of the Act.Legislation Signed - 2004:
• AB 2900 - Employment: discrimination
John Laird (D-Santa Cruz)
Amended employment anti-discrimination statutes to prohibit discrimation on the same bases as in the Fair Employment and Housing Act. Those bases are race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation. Various provisions of prior law prohibited discrimination in employment on different bases, including the race, color, sex, religion, and marital status of a person.
When the Mexicans take over California you're not going to see any more of this nonsense.
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I did ping DBeers, but didn't want to leave ya out! :-)
Thanks for the ping.
"Schwarzenegger... since taking office in 2003, has signed two dozen bills in support of rights for the gay and lesbian communities."
"In politics, I believe we need to address problems rather than attacking people.... Whether you're gay or straight, everyone needs someone to love."
--Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, June 29, 2006 speaking to Log Cabin Republicans [Source]"California is diverse, but it must never be divided. So, tonight I want you to know that I am proud to be on the same team with you. I can't promise you that I will always be of the same mind, but I can promise you that I will always have an open mind."
--Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, June 29, 2006 speaking to Log Cabin Republicans [Source]"I personally think that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. But I think a gay couple should have all the rights that a marriage has."
--Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a 2005 interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board [Source]"I have no sexual standards in my head that say this is good or this is bad. Homosexual-that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy sex with a woman. It's all legitimate to me."
--Arnold Schwarzenegger, Interview with Cosmopolitan magazine [Source]
Thanks for the ping, calcowgirl. Looks like the straights in California really have their work cut out for them. The next thing you know, the legislature will be trying to pass laws like these to protect pedophiles and murderers.
2. What do you think would happen to these bills if Angelides gets elected, who stated that he is in favor of the homosexual marriage?
"Angelides calls himself a champion of "progressive values." As state treasurer, he has pushed public pension funds to dump tobacco stocks, invest in urban renewal projects and pressure corporations into cleaning up the environment. A close ally of labor, he also supports abortion rights, gay marriage, gun control and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants."
Wrong as usual. See post #7.
What do you think would happen to these bills if Angelides gets elected?
If the same legislation were being introduced under a Governor (D), I would be urging the exact same thing: CONTACT your Legislators AND the Governor's office.
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