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Public Policy Advocacy – 2022

BPW of Nevada County – Public Policy Advocacy

POLICY GOALS FOR 2022

*Legislation we helped get enacted:

  • Making abortion more affordable by eliminating cost-sharing, for private and public insurance (SB 245)

*Legislation we are working to get enacted:

  • Making access to birth control and insurance coverage more equitable, e.g., by requiring coverage of over-the-counter birth control (SB 523)
  • Making subsidized childcare more affordable for low-income families by eliminating fees (AB 92)
  • Prohibiting gender-based price discrimination for similar products, the “pink tax” (AB 1287)
  • Supporting bills that make workplaces more accommodating to working mothers and their families
    – Providing bereavement leave for the death of family members (AB 1949)
    – Banning discrimination based on family caregiver status (AB 2182)
  • Supporting a number of bills to expand and support abortion access – as a response to bans in other states.
    – Preventing prosecutions and criminalization for abortion or pregnancy loss (AB 2223)
    – Providing liability protections for abortion providers (AB 1666)
  • Supporting funding for:
    – domestic violence organizations, rape crisis centers, and innovative prevention and intervention approaches related to domestic violence and sexual assault ($40 million). o filling a gap in funding for California’s Title X provider network due to a federal budget cut that would reduce access to family planning services for low-income patients ($10 million) o emergency and long-term funding increases to Title X at the federal level, to rebuild and strengthen our nation’s family planning safety net.*Legislation we are watching:
    – Increasing wage replacement rates for Paid Family Leave and Disability leave (SB 951)
    – Establishing a gap coverage program for abortion and reproductive care for underinsured Californians (AB 2134)
  • Other policy advocacy:
    • Monitoring U.S. Supreme Court cases that re-assess Roe v. Wade and U.S. constitutional protections of women’s rights to choose to terminate their pregnancies without undue Governmental interference, particularly through abortion bans.

    – Monitoring the expected adverse decision of the Supreme Court case of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban (Dobbs v. Mississippi) (Early draft opinion leaked on May 2, 2022