As California gets back to re-opening, the California legislature is back at
work, albeit on a limited basis. Outlined below are an update on key issues
relating to A Voice for Choice Advocacy's mission of xxxxxxrmed choice and
transparency of what goes into your body (scroll down for more details on
each):
* Summary of bills going through the CA legislature
* AB 1898: Menstrual Product Right to Know Act 2020 (Garcia) [Action
Alert]
* Letter to Superintendent Thurmond regarding concern over School
Vaccination Rates
* CA School Reopening Guidelines [Action Alert]
* Federal: HR 6666 Trace Act vs HR 6800 Heroes Act

Summary of bills going through the CA legislature
Usually the Assembly and Senate have around 3000 bills that they work on in
any given legislative year. That has been severely curtailed this year with
the shorter session and the focus on COVID-19 specific legislation or
legislation without budgetary impact. There are 357 bills in the Assembly
and 225 bills in the Senate at this time. There are three bills that remain
that we are supporting this year:
* AB 1989 (Garcia): The Menstrual Product Right to Know Act 2020
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* AB 2762 (Muratsuchi): Cosmetics: Safety
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* SB 1237 (Dodd) Nurse-midwives: scope of practice
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[Action Alert] AB 1989 (Garcia): The Menstrual Product Right to Know Act
2020
The Menstrual Product Right to Know Act 2020
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00AB1989> passed through the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic
Materials Committee 6-1 and through the Assembly Appropriations Committee
16-0. It next heads to the Assembly floor next week. Please be sure to
call your Assembly Member ([link removed])this week
and ask them to support AB1989, and share with them that being able to make
an xxxxxxrmed choice of what goes into or on one's body is extremely important
to you. We asked Assembly member Garcia to introduce this bill because we
feel labeling menstrual products is extremely important. However, this also
is a great bill to start or continue conversations with all legislators on
the importance of xxxxxxrmed choice and transparency of what goes into your
body in general and to continue to build a positive relationship with your
legislators. Many legislators are having virtual town halls, which make it
easy to join them and share your concerns.

Letter to Superintendent Thurmond regarding concern over School Vaccination
Rates
On June 3, 2020, Assembly member Marc Levine and 5 other legislators wrote a
letter to Superintendent Tony Thurmond, outlining their concern that TK-12th
Grade students may pose a public health threat because they may be behind in
their vaccinations. On June 8, 2020, A Voice for Choice Advocacy responded
outlining why there would be no public health threat even if children were
not vaccinated due to the lack of access to pediatricians' offices. You can
read both letters here:
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[Action Alert] CA School Reopening Guidelines
Superintendent Tony Thurmond and the California Department of Education
released their official guidelines on how to reopen schools:
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guidelines, not orders, so schools have some leeway in how they interpret
them. The guidelines include:
* Wearing masks
* Cleaning and sanitization
* Temperature and symptom checks
* Limiting student/teachers to "bubbles" of 12
* Social distancing - desks 6 feet apart
* Reduced bus capacity
* No general lunch or recess - restricted to "bubbles"
* Staggered learning (2 days a week)
Now is the time to contact your school and your school district and voice
your concerns and preferences. While AVFCA recognizes schools will comply
with the guidelines to be safe, two key issues where we see parents can make
a difference is in requesting masks not be worn by children in the
classrooms and for schools to use non-toxic cleaners with no spraying while
children are in the classrooms. Public schools are having Board meetings
either in person or virtually, so find out when your next one is and make
sure you give public comment.

Federal: HR 6666 Trace Act vs HR 6800 Heroes Act
Much has been written in recent weeks on HR 6666 (The COVID
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Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act) which would put one
trillion US dollars towards COVID-19 Testing, tracing and contacting. This
bill, while it got a lot of attention, has not gone anywhere, and is
unlikely to. However, HR 6800 (The Heroes Act
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moving forward and puts three quarters of a trillion US dollars towards
COVID-19 Testing, tracing and contacting, specifically:
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, and in coordination with State, local, Tribal, and
territorial health departments, shall establish and implement a nationwide
evidence-based system for-
(1) testing, contact tracing, surveillance, containment, and mitigation with
respect to COVID-19;
(2) offering guidance on voluntary isolation and quarantine of individuals
infected with, or exposed to individuals infected with, the virus that
causes COVID-19; and
(3) public reporting on testing, contact tracing, surveillance, and
voluntary isolation and quarantine activities with respect to COVID-19.
If you are concerned with contract tracing and the invasion of your privacy,
please contact your FEDERAL congress representative and share your concerns
with both HR 6666, but more importantly HR 6800.

Be positive, stay safe, love those around you and keep planting seeds and
waking people up.
C

If you found this xxxxxxrmation helpful and appreciate the work A Voice for
Choice Advocacy is doing, please support us by making a donation today.
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Christina Hildebrand
President/Founder
A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc.
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