CA SB 608
vetoedSexual health.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 608 pass?
No. CA SB 608 passed the legislature but was vetoed. Latest recorded action (2026-09-27): In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
What is CA SB 608 about?
(1) Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts, defined to include county boards of education, county superintendents of schools, the California School for the Deaf, the California School for the Blind, and charter schools, to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. This bill would authorize the State Department of Education to monitor compliance with the requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act as part of its annual compliance monitoring of state and federal programs. (2) Existing law establishes the Office of School-Based Health Programs for the purpose of assisting local educational agencies regarding the current health-related programs under the purview of the State Department of Education including, among other duties, coordinating school health program activities with public health, social services, environmental, and local educational agencies, and other public and private entities. This bill would prohibit a local educational agency, as defined, from prohibiting school-based health centers, as defined, that serve schools of the local educational agency from making internal and external condoms available and easily accessible to pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, at the school-based health center site and would require a school of a local educational agency to allow condoms to be made available to pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, during the course of, or in connection with, educational or public health programs and initiatives, as provided. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Under existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, the State Department of Public Health generally regulates the packaging, labeling, advertising, and sale of food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics, in accordance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. A violation of those provisions is generally a crime. Existing law sets forth various other provisions relating to the furnishing and health care coverage of certain types of contraception. This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit a retail establishment, as defined, from refusing to furnish nonprescription contraception to a person solely on the basis of age by means of any conduct, including, but not limited to, requiring the customer to present identification for purposes of demonstrating their age. Under the bill, a violation of that prohibition would be exempt from the above-described criminal penalty. (4) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Who sponsors CA SB 608?
Menjivar is the primary sponsor of CA SB 608, joined by 2 cosponsors.
Description
(1) Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts, defined to include county boards of education, county superintendents of schools, the California School for the Deaf, the California School for the Blind, and charter schools, to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. This bill would authorize the State Department of Education to monitor compliance with the requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act as part of its annual compliance monitoring of state and federal programs. (2) Existing law establishes the Office of School-Based Health Programs for the purpose of assisting local educational agencies regarding the current health-related programs under the purview of the State Department of Education including, among other duties, coordinating school health program activities with public health, social services, environmental, and local educational agencies, and other public and private entities. This bill would prohibit a local educational agency, as defined, from prohibiting school-based health centers, as defined, that serve schools of the local educational agency from making internal and external condoms available and easily accessible to pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, at the school-based health center site and would require a school of a local educational agency to allow condoms to be made available to pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, during the course of, or in connection with, educational or public health programs and initiatives, as provided. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Under existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, the State Department of Public Health generally regulates the packaging, labeling, advertising, and sale of food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics, in accordance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. A violation of those provisions is generally a crime. Existing law sets forth various other provisions relating to the furnishing and health care coverage of certain types of contraception. This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit a retail establishment, as defined, from refusing to furnish nonprescription contraception to a person solely on the basis of age by means of any conduct, including, but not limited to, requiring the customer to present identification for purposes of demonstrating their age. Under the bill, a violation of that prohibition would be exempt from the above-described criminal penalty. (4) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-20
- Latest action
- 2026-09-27 — In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Menjivarauthor
- Wienercoauthor
- Zburcoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-09-27
In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
2026-09-27
Vetoed by the Governor.
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2026-08-31
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
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2026-08-26
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2026-08-26
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 5914.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2026-08-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
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2026-08-25
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2026-08-25
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 6467.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2026-08-17
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-08-13
Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
2026-08-13
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2026-08-13
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 13).
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2026-08-05
August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2026-07-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-22
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2026-06-18
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 17).
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2026-05-04
Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH.
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2026-01-27
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-01-27
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 3298.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2026-01-22
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3269.) (January 22).
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2026-01-22
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-01-16
Set for hearing January 22.
2025-05-23
May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-04-28
April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-17
Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 737.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 634.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-03-28
Set for hearing April 9 in HEALTH pending receipt.
2025-03-24
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
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2025-03-19
Set for hearing April 2.
2025-03-05
Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH.
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2025-02-21
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-02-20
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health]
2025-04-02 · pass · 5-2
Member-level votes (7)
- Cortese: yes
- Laird: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Choi: no
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-09 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Menjivar: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Valladares: other
- Weber Pierson: other
- Grove: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-04-28 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
Do pass
2026-01-22 · pass · 5-2
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: no
- Seyarto: no
3rd Reading SB608 Menjivar et al.
2026-01-27 · pass · 29-9
Member-level votes (40)
- Durazo: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Laird: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Allen: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Stern: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cortese: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Limón: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Seyarto: no
- Dahle: no
- Grove: no
- Jones: no
- Niello: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Choi: no
- Strickland: no
- Weber Pierson: other
- Valladares: other
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health]
2026-06-17 · pass · 6-1
Member-level votes (9)
- Bonta: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Patel: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Castillo: no
- Hoover: other
- Zbur: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-30 · pass · 12-3
Member-level votes (16)
- Schiavo: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Addis: yes
- Patel: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Patterson: no
- Johnson: other
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