Call your Senator TODAY - They are voting this week

and ask them to abstain from Voting on AB 659!

Bill Update: AB 659, the bill that A Voice for Choice Advocacy has been working hard to get amended throughout this CA legislative session. It started as an HPV vaccine mandate for schools and then colleges, and was amended to state it was "expected" that school and college students would get the HPV vaccine before enrolling. At the end of June it was further amended to make this a recommendation. This was a huge win! However, late last week AB 659 was amended further to change it from a recommendation to advisory information. This makes it a little more confusing again, but it still conveys that it is not a mandate. AVFCA prefers the recommendation language as that is consistent with other California Department of Public Health guidelines.

The last part of the bill which AVFCA has been trying to get amended is for the HPV vaccine notifications to only be sent to the parents/guardians and not to 6th grade children. There are no other notifications which are sent directly to students by a school.