Subject: CA: Legislation Approaching the Assembly Floor
From: "Ellen McCormick" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:19:40 -0700

May 12, 1997
To: Legislative Information Group
From: Ellen McCormick, Legislative Advocate
LIFE: California's Lesbian/Gay and AIDS Lobby
(916) 444-0424
<[email-masked]>

Hello!

The following are bills that will be voted on by the full Assembly Floor in
the coming weeks - some as early as this week.

We need you to write to your Assembly Member and urge them to support these
bills!  If that's not enough to do - get your partners, parents, siblings,
children, friends, co-workers and anyone else you can think of to send
letters of support as well!  If these bills fail on the Assmbly floor -
they are dead!  We need your support now!

To write to an Assembly Member, use the following address:
The Honorable (name here)
California State Assembly
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814

To find out the name of your Assembly Member, call your local registrar of
voters or your local library.

BILLS:

Bill (Author - all Assembly Members): bill description

AB 53 (Kevin Murray): Allows unmarrried couples (including same-gender
couples) to adopt.

AB 54 (Kevin Murray): Basic statewide domestic partnership bill; includes a
registry, hospital visitation rights, and conservatorship rights.

AB 101 (Sheila Kuehl): Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation in California's public schools.

AB 257 (Antonio Villaraigosa): Adds "sexual orientation" to California's
Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).  

AB 492 (Fred Keeley): Extends the time to file a sexual orientation
discrimination complaint with the Labor Commissioner from 30 days to a
year.

AB 1059 (Carole Migden): Requires health care insurers to allow coverage
for domestic partners when spousal coverage is also available.

If you have any questions or require further assistance, please contact
LIFE Lobby at (916) 444-0424.  Thank for your help!