CURRENT ISSUES: Politics: CCF Report on New 2006 Laws

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New California laws in 2006

Avalanche of new California laws: How many new laws do Californians have to live under? Seven hundred and twenty-nine. That’s how many bills were signed in 2005 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. And because of the Democrats’ majority control of the State Legislature and Schwarzenegger’s liberal bias, most of the new laws are either bad or neutral on family values. 

New California law forces insurance to cover sex-change procedures

One bad law, AB 1586, opens the door to future legislation forcing insurance companies to pay for sex-change operations. The new law prohibits California health care plans and other insurance providers from “discriminating” against the new, legal definition of “sex,” which has been renamed “gender,” which is subjectively defined in state law as “a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth.” AB 1586 means doctors and nurses and medical staff will be pressured, and, in some cases, required, to provide “transition-related procedures,” which, according to the Transgender Law Center, include “blood work, hormones, mental health therapy, and gender confirmation surgery.” This is one more reason by the cost of group health care plans are increasing in California -- the “pool” of insured is getting more strange and unhealthy by leaps and bounds.

> Read the Press Release Newswire report  > Read the text of AB 1586  

Gaggle of sex agenda laws trample the conscience of Californians

Other new anti-family laws include AB 1400, which fines businesses if they don’t sell to or partner with homosexual clients or homosexual businesses that approach them. Then there’s SB 565, which further undermines marriage by unconstitutionally forcing county assessors to view homosexual partners the same as a married husband and wife, and SB 973, which equates homosexual partners with marriage between a husband and wife in government-job retirement policies. All these new laws undermining marriage, and promoting homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual behavior, were signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger the same day he vetoed AB 849, the homosexual “marriage” licenses bill.

> Read the text of AB 1400  > Text of SB 565  > Text of SB 973

Pro-life pharmacists in California will have their religious freedom squashed 

SB 644 is a draconian new law that prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense the so-called “morning-after pill,” which often causes an abortion of the youngest human beings (“fertilized eggs”). The new law specifically states that a pharmacist’s moral, ethical or religious objections will not be accommodated if an employer claims accommodating religion would be an “undue hardship.” 

> Read the text of SB 644 for yourself

Some positive, pro-family laws in 2006

While nearly every pro-family bill was killed in Democrat-controlled committees, a few good bills passed because they embraced a “moderate morality” accepted by even the liberal Democrat majority. 

Helpful new laws affecting families include AB 1474, which prohibits minors in their first year of driving from being behind the wheel after 11 p.m. Another good law is AB 646, which makes permanent a temporary law that prohibits “body piercing” without the physical presence, or written permission, of a parent. However, violating the law is only an infraction and rarely enforced. Toughening the law against sexual abuse is SB 33, which punishes molesters of their own children as tough as they would be punished for molesting children outside of the family. This new law also makes incest a felony, sending “family molesters” to prison.

> Read the text of AB 1474  > Text of AB 646  > Text of SB 33

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The above report is an excerpt from a recent Campaign for Children and Families Email Bulletin. Receive pro-family news directly from CCF...and get the rest of the story every week. Plus you'll get CCF news releases on current California issues you care about and more.  Click here to sign up for FREE CCF Email Bulletins.