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CFBPW Bill Screening
               2023-2024
               1/12/2024




         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 re-
         strooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, In all women’s re-
         strooms 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 requirements 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 dili-
         gence 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 subsequent 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 receiving child
         welfare services who is absent from foster carein to determine the extent of the activities and compliance of the county with the
         case plan in making ongoing and intensive due diligence 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 enforcement 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 violence and the statute of limitations for domestic violence.
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