Below are upcoming state and federal bills that are relevant to your, your family, and your religious community. We've given you an easy-to-understand legislative brief and ways to get involved.
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SB 5255 — Military Chaplains Modernization Act
SB 5255 codifies federal conscience protections for military chaplains, shielding them from being compelled to act against their sincerely held religious beliefs.
SB 3710 permanently reauthorizes and expands the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, extending school-choice access to low-income families including pre-kindergarten students.
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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
AB 1973 removes California's first-trimester limit on abortions performed by non-physician providers such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
SB 1377 would have restored a physician's written statement as sufficient for a child's medical vaccine exemption in California, without state override power.
Sammy's Law would require large social media platforms to build APIs so parents can use third-party safety software to monitor and manage their minor child's account.
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Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
HB 7757 combines several federal child online-safety measures, requiring age verification on adult platforms, mandatory parental controls, and bans on profiling minors for ads.
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Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
HB 9260, the FY2027 Labor-HHS-Education funding bill, continues the federal ban on taxpayer funding of abortion and conscience protections for health care providers.
SB 4590 and its House companion HB 9069 would bar immigration enforcement at houses of worship and other sensitive locations without a judicial warrant.
AB 1688 — Child Abuse Reporting to Parents' Counsel
AB 1688 would require county welfare agencies to notify a parent's dependency-court attorney when abuse or neglect is reported involving their child in foster placement.
HB 83 — Ending Common Core and Expanding School Choice Act
HB 83 would let states allow federal Title I education funds for disadvantaged children to follow the student to the public, charter, or private school of their family's choice.
SB 4855, the SAFE KIDS Act, would require AI providers accessible to minors to build in child-safety features, parental controls, and independent audits while banning child-targeted ads and data sales.
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Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
HB 4964 would make it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion in circumvention of the minor's home-state parental involvement laws.
HB 3411, the House companion to SB 1756, would prohibit federal discrimination against health care entities that decline to participate in abortion and strengthen enforcement of federal conscience laws.
HB 2616 — Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act
HB 2616 would require public elementary and middle schools receiving federal education funds to obtain parental consent before changing a minor's gender markers, pronouns, name, or sex-based accommodations on school records.
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Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
SB 1756 would prohibit federal discrimination against health care entities that decline to participate in abortion and strengthen enforcement of existing federal conscience-protection laws.
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Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
AB 2664 — Places of religious worship: unlawful activities
AB 2664 would create a 100-foot buffer zone around California houses of worship, barring anyone from approaching within 8 feet of a worshipper to harass, threaten, or intimidate them, with criminal penalties for violations.
