Dear Erotic Service Providers and Allied Communities,
Bill 1: California legislators have introduced AB 379
This bill is a whopper!
- Mandates diversion programs for all!
- sets up new ‘ho tax’ and
- Re-criminalizes ‘loitering with intent to commit a commercial sex act’ for clients of sex workers, essentially implementing a version of the Nordic Model.
If passed, this bill will be the slippery slope…Clients or those perceived as clients who are outside of strip clubs or spas or dungeons could be arrested for ‘loitering with intent to commit a commercial sex act’.
Please submit your letter of opposition to AB379. Here is a template letter of which you can copy and/or personalize and submit. Please submit your letters ASAP but there is no hearing scheduled currently in the Assembly Public Safety committee yet.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR LETTER:
Submit a letter opposing AB379 to the legislative portal.
Instructions for submitting a letter of opposition to AB 379 via the legislative portal are
below.
- Use the google link above to download, quickly personalize and attach your letter to be
uploaded. - Click this link https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/ to access the portal.
- Create an account if you do not already have one.
- Click on “Submit a Letter”
- Select a bill
- Measure: AB 379
- Session Type: Regular
- Click “Search”
- Select Stance: Oppose
- Enter Your Stance
- Option 1: Type in why you are opposing AB 379; or
- Option 2 (Recommended) Check the box labeled “Submit a letter instead.” Subject: Oppose AB 379″
Bill 2: California legislators have introduced another bad bill AB 549
Please submit your letter of opposition to AB549. Here is a template letter of which you can
download, copy and/or personalize and then submit by uploading it by following the directions
below at the bottom of this alert to the legislative portal.
Please submit your letters ASAP. This bill doesn’t have a hearing set yet but could be heard
in Assembly Committee on Emergency Management.
HOW To SUBMIT YOUR LETTER:
- Use the google link above to download, quickly personalize and attach your letter to be
uploaded. - Click this link https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/ to access the portal.
- Create an account if you do not already have one.
- Click on “Submit a Letter”
- Select a bill
- Measure: AB 549
- Session Type: Regular
- Click “Search”
- Select Stance: Oppose
- Enter Your Stance
- Option 1: Type in why you are opposing AB 549; or
- Option 2 (Recommended) Check the box labeled “Submit a letter instead.” Subject: Oppose AB 549″
Bill 3: California legislators have introduced AB 813
Oppose AB 813 unless amended.
This bill expands the definition of housing to include mobile homes so they can evict more people
specifically those convicted of prostitution. This is our chance to demand that prostitution be
removed from the list reasons to evict people from housing all together!
Please submit your letter of opposition to AB 813 unless amended to remove prostitution from
Section 798.56 1.(c)(1) all together. Here is a template letter of which you can download, copy
to personalize and submit by uploading to the legislative portal. Please submit your letters
ASAP but there is no hearing scheduled for this bill currently.
HOW To SUBMIT YOUR LETTER:
- Use the google link above to download, quickly personalize and attach your letter to be
uploaded. - Click this link https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/ to access the portal.
- Create an account if you do not already have one.
- Click on “Submit a Letter”
- Select a bill
- Measure: AB 813
- Session Type: Regular
- Click “Search”
- Select Stance: Oppose
- Enter Your Stance
- Option 1: Type in why you are opposing AB 813; or
- Option 2 (Recommended) Check the box labeled “Submit a letter instead.” Subject: Oppose AB 813″