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2026 Priorities & Endorsed Legislation

In 2026, LGBTQ Caucus Members voted to approve priority and endorsed legislative packages.

The priority and endorsed packages cover top issues impacting our communities across California, including: Health and Mental Health Supports; Enhancing Supports in Education; Enhancing Public Safety; Supporting Families; Supporting Veterans; Combatting Hate; and Data Privacy.

“Sponsored” Priorities (in numerical order)

AB 1540 (Mark González) – Restore LGBTQ+ 988 Suicide Prevention Hotline

  • Restores the “Press 3” 988 LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, backfilling a program that was eliminated by the Trump Administration.
  • Bucket: Health & Mental Health Supports

AB 1775 (Ward) – Support for Discharged Service Members

  • Provides critical housing, employment, and transition-to-civilian-life support for service members being discharged from the U.S. military as a result of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14183, which targets transgender service members.
  • Bucket: Supporting Veterans

AB 1930 (Zbur) – Defending Protected Health Care in California

  • Requires business entities in California, including providers and healthcare institutions, to notify the office of the California Attorney General (AG) when they receive a subpoena regarding protected healthcare activity, and will also authorize the AG to respond and intervene.
  • Bucket: Data Privacy

SB 934 (Wiener) – Safeguards for Conversion Therapy Survivors

  • Extends the statute of limitations so survivors of conversion therapy can pursue civil legal claims against licensed mental health providers who subjected them to these harmful and discredited practices.
  • Bucket: Health & Mental Health Supports

SB 1023 (Laird) – Enhanced Access to PrEP

  • Supports PrEP access during a time when the federal administration is rolling back support for HIV services.
  • Bucket: Health & Mental Health Supports

SB 1114 (Cabaldon) – SOGI Data Privacy

  • Strengthens privacy protections for sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex (SOGI) data by limiting agencies from sharing SOGI data unless required by federal law or subject to a subpoena or warrant enforceable in California
  • Bucket: Data Privacy

SB 1328 (Cervantes) – LGBTQ+ Higher Education Equity for Satellite Campuses

  • Extends existing higher education equity provisions to ensure students at satellite campuses have the opportunity to succeed in a safe and supportive educational environment.
  • Bucket: Enhancing Supports inEducation

“Supported” Endorsements (in numerical order)

AB 908 (Solache) – LIFT Act** [TWO-YEAR BILL]

  • Requires the existing requirement of inclusive school instructional material and school curriculum, pursuant to EDC 51204.5, to be included in the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s existing compliance monitoring of sex discrimination.
  • Bucket: Enhancing Supports inEducation

AB 1578 (Jackson) – Anti-Hate Speech Training

  • Requires state and local officials to take specified anti-hate speech training.
  • Bucket: Combatting Hate

AB 1836 (Gabriel and Ward) – Non-Profit Security Grant Program

  • Allows California’s Non-Profit Security Grant Program to allow funding for security at community events hosted by non-profits, including LGBTQ+ Prides.
  • Bucket: Enhancing Public Safety

AB 1876 (Addis) – Protections in Health Care

  • Codifies the Section1557 ACA nondiscrimination protections in health care.
  • Bucket: Health & Mental Health Supports

AB 2014 (Elhawary) –Preventing Gender Bias in Criminal Trials

  • Implementing a key recommendation from the California Committee on Revision of the Penal Code by requiring heightened judicial scrutiny before admitting evidence or argument likely to trigger gender-based stereotypes.
  • Bucket: Enhancing Public Safety

AB 2164 (Bauer-Kahan) – Care Without Fear Act

  • Prohibits future Governors from recognizing a request for extradition of a person providing or aiding legally protected reproductive health care services or gender affirming care services in California.
  • Bucket: Enhancing Public Safety

SB 957 (Pérez) – Dating App Safety Policies

  • Requires online dating apps to create safety policies in an effort to increase transparency around how platforms address misconduct, conduct background checks, handle reports, and notify users of potential safety risks.
  • Bucket: Enhancing Public Safety

SB 998 (Lena Gonzalez) – Discrimination Prevention Coordinators

  • Spells out the responsibilities of the education discrimination prevention coordinators, including the LGBTQ+ Discrimination Prevention Coordinator.
  • Bucket: Enhancing Supports inEducation

SB 1149 (Durazo) – Bereavement Leave for Chosen Families

  • Expand bereavement leave for chosen families, inclusive of LGBTQ+ families.
  • Bucket: Supporting Families