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CFBPW Bill
Screening
2023-2024

Assembly Bills

AB 230 – Author, Reyes Menstrual products. Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021.
Require public schools as provided, maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to
12 , inclusive to stock the school’s restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual prod-
ucts, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, In all women’s restrooms and all-gender
restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom, at all times, and to post a certain notice, on or
before the start of the 2022-23 school year, as prescribed. This bill would extend these require-
ments commencing on or before the start of the 2024-25 school year, to instead apply to public
schools maintaining any combination of classes from grades 3 to 12. Inclusive.
CFBPW Screening Committee Vote: Support

Status of bill: 10/8/2023 Chaptered
Public Policy Statement: CDBPW promotes focus on women’s health careincluding support for
protections for all health care needs affecting women.
AB 273 – Author, Ramos Amend and add to AB273 regarding Foster Care: missing children
and non-minor dependents.

This bill would, among other things, additionally require the social worker or probation officer,
when they receive information that a child receiving child welfare services is absent from foster
care to, among other things, engage in ongoing and intensive due diligence efforts as defined to
locate, place and stabilize the child, request that the juvenile court schedule a hearing to review
the placement and the ongoing and intensive due diligence efforts to locate and return the
child, notify specified individuals whose whereabouts are known about the hearing and any sub-
sequent hearings describing their ongoing and intensive due diligence efforts to locate, place,
and stabilize the child. The bill would require the court to consider the safety of the child receiv-
ing child welfare services who is absent from foster carein to determine the extent of the activi-
ties and compliance of the county with the case plan in making ongoing and intensive due dili-
gence efforts to locate and return the child to a safe placement, and to continue to review their
case periodically.
CFBPW Screening Committee Vote: Watch

Status of bill: 10/8/2023. Vetoed
Public Policy Statement: CFBPW supports other issues of importance which promote this public
policy statement.

AB 330 - Author, Dixon, Lackey Domestic violence: Victim’s information for Survivor
Empowerment (ADVISE) Act.This bill would, among other things, add the issuance of Victims
of Domestic Violence cards as a topic in the course of instruction for the training of law enforce-
ment officers. This bill would additionally require the Victims of Domestic Violence card to be a
different color than cards issued by officers, to include a disclaimer, to be available in languages
other than English, and to include various information such as the definition of domestic vio-
lence and the statute of limitations for domestic violence.

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