2025

California

    • Requires courts to provide the Judicial Council each month with information regarding unlawful detainer cases, as specified, aggregated by ZIP Code. Requires the Judicial Council to make that information publicly available online every 4 months.

    • Held in Senate Appropriations in May 2025.

    • Author: Sen. Durazo

    • Co-sponsor: Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)

    • Establishes a statewide guaranteed income program titled the California SOAR (Success, Opportunity & Academic Resilience) Guaranteed Income Program.

    • Provides students experiencing homelessness with direct cash assistance to support their transition out of high school and their access to employment and post-secondary education.

    • Held in Senate Appropriations in May 2025.

    • Authors: Sen. Cortese, Asm. Quirk-Silva

    • Co-author: Sen. Ashby, Sen. Becker, Asm. Jackson

    • Co-sponsors: County of Santa Clara, Economic Security California Action, End Poverty in California Action, United for a Guaranteed Income Action, United Way California Capital Region

texas

    • Lifts ban on TANF for those previously convicted of drug-related, non-violent felonies.

    • Held in Senate Health & Human Services in April 2025.

    • Author: Sen. Cook

California Policy Managers at The Reclamation Project’s conference: “Youth Power: Young Activists Carrying the Torch.”

Webinar: Restoring Re-Entry Support: Lifting Texas’ TANF Ban for Those Formerly Incarcerated, with CLASP & NCCP

2024

California

    • Repeals “upon request” language in Section 3409 of the Penal Code and mandates that menstrual products are “read[ily] access[ible] without needing to request.” 

    • Signed by CA Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2024.

    • Authors: Asm. Bryan & Asm. Bonta

    • Co-authors: Asm. McKinnor, Asm. Quirk-Silva, Asm, Reyes, Asm. Luz Rivas, Asm. Waldron, Asm. Weber, Asm. Zbur, Sen. Menjivar, Sen. Skinner, Sen. Smallwood-Cuevas

    • Co-sponsors: A New Way of Life, LA Regional Re-Entry Partnership

    • Expands protection against scholarship displacement to Cal Grant students at California Community Colleges, California State Universities, and Universities of California.

    • Signed by CA Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2024.

    • Author: Asm. Calderon

    • Co-author: Asm. Bonta

    • Co-sponsors: NCCPC, GenUp, California State Universities, and Universities of California.

    • Signed by CA Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2024.

    • Author: Asm. Calderon

    • Co-author: Asm. Bonta

    • Co-sponsors: NCCPC, GenUp

    • Adds menstrual products to the schedule of covered benefits under the Medi-Cal program, California’s equivalent of Medicaid.

    • Held in Senate Appropriations in May 2024.

    • Author: Sen. Menjivar

    • Co-sponsors: Alliance for Period Supplies, California NOW, Coalition for Reproductive and Menstrual Supplies, Days for Girls International, Girls Learn International Feminist Majority Foundation, IGNITE, PERIOD., The Women’s Building, URGE

    • Co-authors: Asm. Friedman, Asm, McKinnor, Asm. Ortega, Asm. Pellerin, Asm. Luz Rivas, Sen. Gonzalez, Sen. Skinner

    • Co-sponsors:

    • Amends the California State Constitution, enshrining the human right to food.

    • Introduced in April 2024.

    • Author: Senator Hurtado

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Three women standing together indoors, all smiling. The woman on the left wears a magenta dress, the woman in the middle wears a white blouse and dark blazer, and the woman on the right wears a dark blazer over dark clothing. There are framed certificates or awards on the wall behind them.

SB 953 Author Sen. Menjivar

SCA 10 Author Sen. Hurtado

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AB 1810 Author Asm. Bryan

2023

    • Adds $20/month to menstruating CalWORKs recipients’ monthly cash aid for the purpose of purchasing menstrual products.

    • Held in Assembly Appropriations in July 2023.

    • Author: Sen. Menjivar

    • Co-authors: Asm. Aguiar-Curry, Asm. Bonta, Asm. Calderon, Asm. Stephanie Nguyen, Asm. Ortega, Asm. Reyes, Asm. Luz Rivas, Asm. Schiavo, Sen. Hurtado, Sen. Rubio, Sen. Skinner, Sen. Wahab

    • Co-sponsors: Access Reproductive Justice, Alliance for Girls, Alliance for Period Supplies, Days for Girls, Girls Learn International, IGNITE, PERIOD., Sisters on the Streets,The Pad Project, The Women’s Building, URGE

A woman named Wendy Carrillo sitting at a desk with a microphone, during a California State Assembly meeting discussing AB 665 related to minors and mental health services.
A woman with long black hair and a dark blazer speaking in a hearing room, with several seated audience members and another woman taking a photo with a smartphone in the background.

Testifying for AB 665 (March, June 2023, CA)

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Testifying for SB 260 ( Feb 2023, CA)