Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez. (Photo: a43.asmdc.org)
AB 495: ‘A Child Trafficker’s and Kidnapper’s Dream Bill’
The bill’s language applies to any child for any reason, regardless of immigration status
By Katy Grimes, August 5, 2025 3:00 pm
California parents have been betrayed once again by Democrats in the California Legislature, and are in for a shock from their elected lawmakers. Assembly Bill 495, ludicrously titled the “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025” claims the bill “is a critical tool that will preserve California’s families.” Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez (San Fernando-D) says, “We must do everything we can to safeguard families from separation and ensure children are supported.”
Sounds innocuous, and maybe even helpful, right?
The Senate Human Services Committee spells it out:
“This bill allows a court to appoint a temporary guardian for a child, chosen by the child’s custodial parent, who is empowered to assume guardianship duties of the child if the parent is temporarily unavailable due to an immigration-related administrative action, among other circumstances.” [emphasis the Globe]
Assemblywoman Rodriguez, the author of the bill, claims AB 495 will provide compassionate solutions for immigrant families facing sudden separations due to detention or deportation.
Actually, and more to the point, AB 495 “creates legal loopholes that make kidnapping children easy,” the California Family Council explains.
The bill’s actual language says this:
“The bill would expand the type of person who is authorized to execute a caregiver’s authorization affidavit to include a “nonrelative extended family member,” and grant them the same rights to authorize school-related medical care, for the minor that are given to guardians. By expanding who is authorized to sign a caregiver’s authorization affidavit for these purposes under penalty of perjury, this bill would expand the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
This bill would amend the statutory form for a caregiver’s authorization affidavit.”
This isn’t just about helping out immigrant families facing deportation – this bill specifies that a “nonrelative extended family member” has the same rights to authorize school-related medical care. Think abortions, puberty blockers, and sex-change operations for the kids of parents who don’t support their gender fantasies.
AB 495 is another bill that threatens parental rights. Based on the bill’s language, the law would allow the state to remove custody from parents who do not “affirm their child’s gender identity,” even going so far as to claim parents are abusive or neglectful for not indulging their minor child’s gender dysphoria.
AB 495 is reminiscent of Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 497, which “recognizes California’s role in prioritizing the safety of those seeking gender affirming health care.” This bill actually is “designed to hide the ever growing number of kids being poisoned, sterilized and maimed.”
“Gender affirming care” amounts to a chemical or surgical “Sex change,” and does not support or provide actual “gender affirming care.” It’s only about kids who are in some type of gender crisis.
AB 495 even redefines what qualifies as a “safe” home, replacing parents with government for the parental position of deciding what is best for a child. Just imagine the definition of an “unsafe” home: one in which the children are homeschooled, or one which has legally purchased and registered guns, or there is a freezer full of Venison hunted by dad, or a Trump flag flying next to the American flag, or a home which mixes the recycling and landfill garbage.
The bill language states:
“If an employee of a school is aware that a pupil’s parent or guardian is not available to care for the pupil, the school shall first exhaust any parental instruction relating to the pupil’s care in the emergency contact information it has for the pupil to arrange for the pupil’s care. A school is encouraged to work with parents or guardians to update their emergency contact information and not to contact Child Protective Services to arrange for the pupil’s care unless the school is unable to arrange for care through the use of emergency contact information or other information or instructions provided by the parent or guardian.”
In 2022, Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) celebrated passage of his bill, SB 107 to erode parents’ rights by allowing minor children to travel to California for trans procedures, puberty blockers (chemical castration), known as “gender-affirming health care.” SB 107 allows non-parent adults to bring minor children to California for experimental and damaging transgender medical interventions, without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
Assemblywoman Rodriguez is the Chairwoman of the Latina Inequities committee. And she has worked on “homelessness prevention as part of the LA Mayor’s Homelessness Services Team. As Deputy Director of Community Development Strategies, she oversaw LA’s Guaranteed Basic Income pilot, Child Savings Accounts, and initiatives to empower vulnerable families.”
However, critics of AB 495, including attorneys, parental rights advocates, and faith-based organizations—warn it dangerously redefines guardianship, strips away parental rights, the California Family Council explains.
They continue:
Erin Friday, an attorney and president of Our Duty-USA, a parent-led advocacy group, called AB 495 “a child trafficker’s and kidnapper’s dream bill.”
“There is no background check, no welfare check, no court oversight, and no verification. All you need is a piece of paper and some form of identification, with no obligation for the adult handing the child over to verify the identification, and presto, someone walks away with your child,” she warned.
Friday also rejects Rodriguez’s claim that this bill is narrowly tailored to immigration emergencies. The bill’s language applies to any child for any reason, regardless of immigration status, and grants temporary legal rights to individuals with no blood relation, including people who may not even be known to the child’s parents. The stranger can consent to medical treatments for the child, and the bill absolves the doctors from any liability should the adult consenting not have any actual legal connection to the child.
“We’re talking about a legal pathway for predators to operate in plain sight,” Friday said. “This bill is not about immigration. It’s about relinquishing parental rights to unvetted strangers under the guise of compassion.”
Think about this. Assemblywoman Rodriguez has authored a bill ostensibly tailored to family immigration deportation emergencies, but really authorizes the state to grab kids from public schools and appoint a custodial parent “if an employee of a school is aware that a pupil’s parent or guardian is not available to care for the pupil.” For any issue, not just immigration deportation issues.
Why are California Democrats so obsessed with sex changes, trans kids, and “gender affirming care,” which leaves children scarred and disfigured for life?
A lawyer/mother testified in 2022, that Sen. Wiener’s SB 107 is unconstitutional and violates parental rights by offering protections to non-custodial parents to abscond to California for trans gender treatments. “Every Attorney General in the country should be filing lawsuits against California for sterilizing or experimenting on minors,” she said.
This bill, AB 495, besides trying to replace parents with “nonrelatives,” entirely undermines the family unit, while setting a terrifying precedence for government intrusion in the family.
I’m sure Senator Scott Wiener loves this bill – he voted for it in the Senate Judiciary Committee:
Here is how the full Assembly voted for AB 495:
Let me highlight the “Ayes” – those who voted to pass AB 495:
Addis, Aguiar-Curry, Ahrens, Alanis, Alvarez, Arambula, Ávila Farías, Bains, Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Berman, Boerner, Bonta, Bryan, Calderon, Caloza, Carrillo, Connolly, Elhawary, Fong, Gabriel, Garcia, Gipson, Mark González, Haney, Harabedian, Hart, Irwin, Jackson, Kalra, Krell, Lee, Lowenthal, McKinnor, Muratsuchi, Nguyen, Ortega, Pacheco, Papan, Patel, Pellerin, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Ransom, Celeste Rodriguez, Michelle Rodriguez, Rogers, Blanca Rubio, Schiavo, Schultz, Sharp-Collins, Solache, Soria, Stefani, Valencia, Wallis, Ward, Wicks, Wilson, Zbur, Rivas
Here are the “Noes:”
Davies, DeMaio, Dixon, Ellis, Gallagher, Patterson, Sanchez
And the “NVR” – no vote recorded:
Castillo, Chen, Flora, Jeff Gonzalez, Hadwick, Hoover, Lackey, Macedo, Ta, Tangipa. Note: Alexandra Macedo voted “no” in the Assembly Judiciary Committee. Dixon, Ta, and Tangipa voted “no” in Assembly Appropriations.
The bill is in the Senate awaiting hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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An estimate of 400,00 children have gone missing after illegally entering the U.S. under the Biden administration.
So maybe Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez (San Fernando-D) should be more concerned in locating these kids instead of giving them away through the public school system!
A very dangerous bill indeed!
Man, these Dem legislators REALLY want to get their hands on the state’s kids to do God-only-knows-what to them, don’t they. Or they represent people who do. Who exactly are these constituencies who wish horrors of kidnapping, sex trafficking, not to mention puberty blockers, mind-blowing cross-sex hormone injections, and mutilating Frankenstein-like transgender surgeries on minor children, anyway? Or is it just about the sweet sweet moolah for these monsters among us?
Whatever, they’re at it again, this time doing a workaround of what has been deep-sixed before, or trying to expand what hasn’t, and all of it under cover of “care and compassion” for left-behind illegal immigrant’s children who are separated from parents. What a load of horse#$%@! Can’t these people ever be straight? And why the obsession? How brain-damaged can a legislator get?
Take a good long look at those who voted YES (above). Try to memorize their names or post them on a nearby wall.
In the meantime Katy Grimes tells us AB 495 is awaiting a hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee. We MUST contact our senators ASAP insisting they oppose AB 495.
Remember this bill applies to ANY CHILD FOR ANY REASON, not just those caught up in immigration separation. How bottom-feeding can these Dem legislators get?
Find your senator here:
https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators
Insist your senator Vote NO on AB 495.
Thank. You for posting ShowandTell.
I just contacted my State Senator.
Please everyone this bill must be killed.
That’s wonderful CG. Contacted my senator this morning.
Hope the senators’ email in-boxes are full and the phone is ringing off the hook and the constituent social media is shaming them.
Great ShowandTell,
There must be a campaign to kill this bill!
AB495 is a ruse to move kids around and take away parental rights.
I guess you could say Ass. Celeste Rodriquez kills 2 birds with one stone.
I wonder who really out her up to this? People need to come to grips that there is a sect in this population to hurt children. It is demonic and the Democrats are more than willing to do their bidding. I would not be surprised if Mexican cartels are behind this. They essentially have been put out of business thanks to the new administration’s efgorts to secure our southern border. They trafficked thousands of children!
*….put her up to this?
*efforts
☺️I need new readers..
YES.
I need new readers and a time machine.
Lol, a time machine would be nice!
No kidding. By the way, as Protect Freedom pointed out below, I doubt very much Gruesome will fare very well in His Quest (you know, The QUEST) if he stupidly signs this stuff and it all gets out there in the ether Not only this but the Go-Go-Abortion to end of pregnancy push and enthusiasm, his constant release of violent prisoners, his growing of homeless vagrancy to serve various slush funds and the Homeless Industrial Complex, his and his wife’s (pay-to-play) bribe requests that he apparently legalized or exec ordered or whatever, his constant suing of Trump to keep child mutilation surgeries in place (and the like), his wife’s genderbread B.S. and exhibition of porno images to middle-schoolers without parental knowledge or consent for which she was paid handsomely, never mind Gruesome’s dictatorship during Covid and its never-ending harms, and the rest of the long long long list that gets longer with each passing hour.
Rats! I meant “Enough Already” made the point that Newsom is in trouble if he signs this stuff under the circumstances of his Prez aspirations.
Time to take a break 🙂
Pressure Newsom!!! He wants to be president, so if he signs this bill that spells trouble!
Assemblywoman Rodriguez’s bill AB 495 is another devious attempt by Democrats to strip away parental rights. Katy Grimes rightly questioned why are California Democrats so obsessed with sex changes, trans kids, and “gender affirming care,” which leaves children scarred and disfigured for life? They must be demonic?
Yes, just as demonic as the Devil’s spawn can be, TJ!
Good luck to them. They’ll need it.
I wish we had the heads up on this bill before it came to vote in the Assembly.
It’s a freak show up in Sacramento with these Communist Democrats.
Dear Celeste
All of the pedophiles and the alphabet society of the California State Legislature thank you for carrying this bill.
Rest assured that you will be promoted within the ranks of the party.
After all, morality has little to do with your upward movement in the ranks.
May you rest in hell for carrying this bill.
Update:
This bill is now in the State Senate Appropriations committee and scheduled for a hearing on August 25, 2025!
Please write to each committee member to oppose this bill.
https://sapro.senate.ca.gov/members
Thanks for posting, Cali Girl.
Sure!
The date for the hearing is now August 19,2025
There is a call to action to rally at the Capitol.
Jack Hibbs will be speaking at the rally.
https://www.californiafamily.org/2025/08/pastor-jack-hibbs-rallies-parents-to-sacramento-if-ab-495-passes-run-with-your-kids/
Correction:
AUGUST 19,2025
Senate Appropriation hearing.
A call to action to rally and meet with legislators at the Capitol.
https://www.californiafamily.org/2025/08/pastor-jack-hibbs-rallies-parents-to-sacramento-if-ab-495-passes-run-with-your-kids/
There was once a doctor who gave children sweets and even played with them – as he was preparing to do evil experimentation with them. His name was Dr Mengele, the “angel of death” of auschwitz, who never paid the price of his enormous, evil deeds. And so it is with “gender affirming care,” wholesale butchery of children. It’s amazing what some people will diabolically do to others if there is a buck to be pocketed.
“Republicans aren’t the solution to our problems, but Democrats are certainly the cause.” More or less quoting Dan Bongino. It would appear that in California, that statement is only partially true. Notice that seven Assemblymembers, all Republicans, voted against this monstrosity. Then note that there are 19 Republicans in the Assembly (https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers?sort=desc&order=rt-row__party). All the rest, including Mike Wallis, my supposedly staunch conservative representative, VOTED FOR IT. There is no Republican party in Kalifornia, not at the Capitol anyway. They’re just playing the part of controlled opposition to keep us in line. The question is, what do we do about it?
I realized today that this is the Demonrat response to Trump cutting off the “unaccompanied minor” pipeline that was feeding the adrenochrome factories and the child sex trafficking network.
Fight this with everything you have and if it passes then IMMEDIATELY flee the state with your kids. Nothing is more important that saving the children! Nothing!