CA bill aims to add LGBTQ+ hotline to student ID cards | Sacramento Bee
THE DEBATE OVER STUDENT IDS
A controversial bill that would require public schools to print an LGBTQ+ specific hotline phone number on student identification cards, is set to face its next hurdle in the Senate Education Committee Wednesday.
The bill is making its way through the Legislature as the Trump administration makes cuts to national LGBTQ+ resources.
Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez, D-Los Angeles, authored the bill to put the Trevor Project’s 24/7 crisis hotline on the student IDs of 7th through 12th graders and those in higher education. On the Senate side, state Sens. Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside and Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco have signed onto Assembly bill 727. It also mandates annual updates to the California Department of Education’s website with LGBTQ+ resources.
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