Support:
SB 1414 (Grove)- Crimes: Solicitation of a minor.
This bill increases jail times and fines for solicitation of a minor and creates a requirement to register as a sex offender for a term of 10 years.
STATUS: Assembly - Third Reading
SB 1435 (Ochoa Bogh) – Books and other school materials: Obscene matter
This bill protects children from materials that are not developmentally appropriate.
Guidance regarding appropriateness for various ages is a necessary consideration for books and other materials used in school.
STATUS: FAILED 04/24/24
Judiciary Committee Vote Result:
(FAIL) »» Ayes: 2; Noes: 3; Abstain: 2;
SB 1203 (Grove) Education Flex Account Act of 2024
School funds should allow each child to learn in a setting that best suits their educational needs and interests. Establishing an ESA trust that allows parents to work with the state to ensure that the child is the center of focus is important for the child’s growth and development.
STATUS: 04/24/24 Failed
AB 2652 (Muratsuchi) Dept. of Education: A.I. working group.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group for the purpose of exploring how A.I. and other forms of advanced technology are currently being used in education and developing best practices to ensure that those technologies advance, rather than harm, educational quality.
STATUS: Bill Died
AB 1824 (Valencia) California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: opt-out right
This bill would require a business to which another business transfers the personal information of a consumer as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction, to comply with a consumer’s opt-out direction to the transferer. This requirement will help safeguard consumer privacy and protect against improper use of personal information that is collected and sold by businesses.
STATUS: Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrollin
SB-976 (Skinner) Social Media Youth Addiction Law.
This bill prohibits “social media platforms” from providing “addictive feeds,” as those terms are defined, to minors without parental consent and from sending notifications to minors at night and during school hours without parental consent. The bill requires platforms to make available to parents a series of protective measures for controlling access to and features of the platform for their children. The bill also requires reporting on data regarding children on their platforms, as specified.
Status: : Asm 3rd Reading File Senate Bills 08-29-2024 #196
AB-1871 Adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12: social sciences: personal financial literacy.
This bill with respect to the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, would require the social sciences area of study to also include instruction on personal financial literacy, as provided.
Status: Sen 3rd Reading - Asm Bills 08-29-2024 #193
AB-1949 California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020: collection of personal information of a minor
This bill would instead prohibit a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 18 years of age and would revise the above-described prohibition to prohibit a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer over 13 years of age, but less than 18 years of age, unless the consumer, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, as applicable, has affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information, as specified. The bill would require a business to treat a consumer as under 18 years of age if the consumer, through a platform, technology, or mechanism, transmits a signal indicating that the consumer is less than 18 years of age.
STATUS: Asm Concurrence in Senate Amendments 08-29-2024 #108
