Assembly Health Committee, Tuesday, April 7, 2026

7 April 2026

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Assembly Health Committee Di., 7. Apr. 2026 California State Assembly

30:15 - 34:00

Redner 1

Good afternoon and welcome to the Assembly Health Committee's hearing on Tuesday, April 7. Before we begin, I want to make sure everyone understands our committee procedures to ensure we maintain order and run a fair and efficient hearing with the goal of hearing as much from the public within the limits of our time. We seek to protect the rights of all who participate in the legislative process so that we can have effective deliberation on the critical issues facing California. Rules of conduct by members of the public include no engaging in conduct that disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of this hearing engaging in personal attacks of members of this committee, authors, staff or other witnesses talking or loud noises from the audience. Please be aware that violations of these rules may subject you to removal or other enforcement processes.

If you are providing witness testimony at this hearing, all witnesses will be testifying in person. Main support in opposition will be allowed two main witnesses for a maximum of two minutes each. As a reminder, primary witnesses in support must be those accompanying the author or who otherwise have registered a support position with the committee, and the primary witness in opposition must have their opposition registered with the committee per the instructions on our website. All other support and opposition can be stated at the standing mic when called upon to simply state your name, affiliation and position. All testimony comments are limited to the bill at hand.

I would like to note the committee will be hearing two separate bills regarding AI in health care, a b nineteen seventy nine by Bonta and a b twenty five seventy five by Ortega. We will hear these two bills back to back to accommodate a witness for their testimony and for a film crew to be able to set up with minimal distraction. As special orders of business, today's hearing will begin with a special order of business to allow members of the committee to consider and for members of the public to express their opinions about AB 2,651. We realize that many people have traveled to Sacramento to voice their opinions, and we want to hear from you. But, unfortunately, our time to hear this matter is not unlimited.

We will dispense with the special order shortly after 02:00, as the committee has 21 other bills to hear on the regular agenda. For housekeeping, I would like to note that Speaker has appointed Assembly Member Rogers to be a substitute for Assembly Member Celeste Rodriguez for today's hearing. On consent, the following bills have been proposed for consent for today's hearing. Any member of the committee may remove a bill from the consent agenda. The consent items include item number three, AB seventeen seventy three by Rubio, with a motion of due pass to appropriations Item No.

Four, AB nineteen fifty six, by Valencia, with a motion of due pass to appropriations Item No. Six, AB nineteen eighty five, by Berman, with a motion of due pass as amended to higher education Item number eight, AB 2,093, Bauer Cahen, with a motion of due pass to communications and conveyance. Item number 10, AB 2,160, solicited by Celeste Rodriguez, with a motion of due pass as amended to appropriations. And Item No. 14, AB 2,391 by Arons, with a motion of due pass as amended to higher education.

With that, we will start as a subcommittee until we have quorum. And we will now begin with our special order item, AB2651 by Bonta. And our Majority Leader, Assisi Argir Khoury, will convene.

34:12 - 34:35

Redner 2

Good afternoon, everyone. Glad to see everyone here. Our first bill will be AB2651, Bonta, Inform Parents Healthy Schools Act. If the witnesses for Ms. Bonta are here.

Assemblymember Bonta, whenever you're ready, please begin.

34:38 - 35:52

Redner 1

Thank you. Good afternoon Chair and members. AB 2,651 notifies parents when their child's school vaccination rate falls below the level required to achieve herd immunity. The herd immunity rate is the percentage of the population that must be immunized to prevent disease transmission and thus provide some protection even for those who lack immunity. This bill ensures that parents have the information they need to keep their children safe from preventable communicable diseases.

AB twenty twenty four says in 2024, a study published in The Lancet estimated that vaccines have saved one hundred and fifty four million lives globally since 1974, comparable a rate of six lives every minute. Of those saved lives, ninety five percent were children younger than five years old. Alarmingly, outbreaks are increasing. While measles was once eradicated in The United States, this year 10 counties in California alone have reported a total of thirty four measles cases. For twenty twenty four-twenty twenty five, 12 of the state's 58 counties, that's twenty one percent, reported that the percent of kindergartners with all required immunizations was below ninety percent.

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