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Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair: New CROWN Act. California became the first state to ban racial discrimination based on hairstyles as Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Senate Bill 188, also known as the Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act, on July 3, 2019. The CROWN Act recently became effective on January 1, 2020, in California.

AB 2119 bill gives the right to transgender youth in foster care to access medical services, including counseling, hormone therapy, and surgery; also other services such as dental and vision. Assembly Bill 2119 was proposed by Todd Gloria, who claimed that this will “empower transgender foster youth to live authentically and simply be themselves.” This new law will give transgender youths in California the right to access healthcare, which is a basic human right that many in the past did not…

Effective January 1, 2020, the state of California Senate Bill No. 30, Election of Domestic Partners, removes another constraint for couples becoming Registered Domestic Partners. This law was proposed by Scott Wiener and approved by Governor Newsom on July 30, 2019. SB 30 gives heterosexual couples the choice to become registered domestic partners under California state law.

California state law SB 1127 “Jojo’s Act,” proposed by Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), allows California schools to decide if a parent or guardian can administer medical cannabis to their child at school. Jojo’s Act was named after a high school student name Jojo, who suffered up to 50 seizures a day, and was able to control it with medical cannabis. Unable to medicate at school, his mother had to remove him from school grounds to administer his medication.