Bill Text: CA AB583 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 583

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

Bill Title: Birthing Justice for California Families Pilot Project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB583 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB583-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 583

Introduced by Assembly Member Wicks

February 09, 2023

An act to add Section 127640 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to health.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 583, as introduced, Wicks. Reproductive justice.

Existing law establishes the California Reproductive Health Equity Program within the Department of Health Care Access and Information to ensure abortion and contraception services are affordable for and accessible to all patients and to provide financial support for safety net providers of these services.

This bill would make specified findings and declarations regarding reproductive justice.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 127640 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

127640.

(a) Reproductive justice is a framework created by Black women in 1994 to address the intersectional and multifactored issues that women of color and their families face in society.

(b) Reproductive justice is the human right to control our bodies, sexuality, gender, work, and reproduction. That right can only be achieved when all people, particularly women and girls, have the complete economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about their bodies, families, and communities in all areas of their lives. Two of the core tenets of reproductive justice are the right to have children and the right to parent the children we have with dignity and respect in safe and sustainable communities.

(c) Reproductive justice affirms that every birthing person is entitled to dignity and demands that they are equipped with the necessary supports for a safe, joyous, and positive birthing process.