Sacramento, Calif., May 23, 2024 - Today, AB 2640, The CLASS (Compassionate Advancements in Science Studies) Act, authored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) and co-sponsored by Social Compassion in Legislation, PETA, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, passed the full Assembly with a vote of 53-to-0.

AB 2640 (Kalra) passed out of Assembly Appropriations (coming off the suspense file) on a vote of 11-0, with the four Republicans not voting. AB 2012 (Lee) and AB 2133 (Kalra) were both held by the Appropriations Committee, meaning they have reached the end of the road and are dead.

SB 1459 by Senator Janet Nguyen (R-Huntington Beach) is bad for cats. Call today to ensure it doesn’t pass out of Appropriations!

On Monday, AB 3162, authored by Assemblymember Steve Bennett (D-Santa Barbara) and cosponsored by Social Compassion in Legislation and Animal Legal Defense Fund, passed the full Assembly with a vote of 51-10!

AB 3053 will ensure that, in the rare instances where a 4H/FFA family wants to spare their animal's life, or a winning bidder wants to pick up the animal alive, they can do so without the legal drama and emotional trauma others have experienced in the past.

Call Now for Cedar and All the Children Who Do Not Want Their Animal Slaughtered!

1️⃣ AB 2133 passed the Assembly Business and Professions Committee with a final vote of 13-3! 2️⃣ AB 3162 passed the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife with a vote of 13-1! 3️⃣ AB 1983 passed the full Assembly with a vote of 70-0!

AB 2640, The Class (Compassionate Advancements in Science Studies) Act, authored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) and sponsored by Social Compassion in Legislation, PETA and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, passed the Assembly Education Committee with a unanimous vote of 6-to-0.

AB 2012 Unanimously Passes Assembly Business & Professions Committee! Now we need your help with 4 upcoming bills.

If you want to support the bills SCIL is sponsoring in 2024, you must sign up to do so, even if you signed on to support all our bills in 2023. Time is of the essence as five of our bills will be voted on in their first committee hearings between April 2nd and April 10th.

ACR 86 passed its final hurdle today on the Senate floor, setting the stage for more action to save animals' lives. ➡️ We are sponsoring or supporting important bills this year, including six that are a direct response to ACR 86. What we need most from you right now is a donation of any size to help cover the costs associated with moving these bills forward.

AB 2425 will expand the definition of dog breeder and ensure that all dogs sold by breeders are microchipped and vaccinated, include provisions requiring that shelters post the adoption availability of animals on their website or a third-party website, and order the California DFA to conduct a study on overcrowding in California shelters and potential remedies.

Dissecting animals is costly, exposes students and educators to carcinogenic chemicals, and hurts the environment. Each year in the U.S., an estimated 10 million animals are killed for dissection.

Reminder to Sign Up to Support All of SCIL's Sponsored Legislation! Your support in the form of letters, calls, and social media engagement will be key to passing laws that save animal lives.

I am excited to announce that I am running for Laguna Beach City Council. I’ll still be here at SCIL, working day and night to build the broadest possible coalitions to pass laws that protect the planet and all the creatures we share it with.

AB 1983, Preventing Euthanasia to Save (P.E.T.S.) Act reinstates the tax check-off program to fund spaying and neutering. It was just assigned its first committee hearing for March 4th and needs your letters of support ASAP by 3PM Monday, February 26th!

by: Will Conybeare | California State Assemblymember Steve Bennett (D-38) has introduced AB 3162 – known as the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act – to prohibit octopus farming on land and water as well as ban the import of farmed octopus to California.

Bill will ensure that octopus farms, and the risks inherent to them, are not allowed in California.

AB 3053 INTRODUCED! New legislation will ensure uniform rules to allow families participating in junior agricultural programs to opt out of slaughter-only auctions.

Below is a letter that ran recently in local papers about a harmful “Utility Tax” that snuck through the legislature last year and that a group of lawmakers is now working to repeal. It’s something we should all care about, as climate-conscious individuals, and as utility ratepayers.