New California laws going into effect in 2026 impact tortillas, streaming services and more

ABC 7 NEWS ^ | December 17, 2025 | ByJuan Carlos Guerrero

[artichokegrower]

Hundreds of new laws are taking effect in California in the new year. Here is a partial list.

[artichokegrower]

SCHOOLS (SB 760) Gender Neutral Bathrooms Requires that all K-12 public schools and charters have at least one all-gender restroom at each school site. The law takes effect in July in time for the 2026-2027 school year. Students cannot be forced to use the all-gender bathrooms.

(AB 727) Identification Cards Beginning in July, California's public middle schools, high schools and colleges must offer student identification cards with the telephone number and text line of the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ youth.

Boys get to use the girl’s bathroom and anonymous child predators get direct access to students

[Sarah Barracuda]

Thank God my nephews dont go to LA Unified Schools..they go to Las Virgenes Unified, not sure if this will be required it better NOT be

[BenLurkin]

The Party believes in passing laws just for the sake of passing laws. Even better when the laws give the Party more power.

[econjack]

Caps the out-of-pocket cost of insulin to $35 for a 30-day supply for health plans regulated by the state of California.

Anyone want to predict where this one goes?

[digger48]

Guessing that Scott Weiner wrote the legislation

He’s behind all the CA gay/trans/groomer laws

And now he’s heading to Congress for Nancys seat

[Lockbox]

SB 69 would provide for the State of California to tax anyone who ever stepped into the State even for a brief moment, for the rest of their lifetime…

[Vaduz]

California a rerun of how Rome fell.

[Blurb2350]

So . . . what’s the deal with tortillas?

[MikelTackNailer]

They're requiring formic acid be included in torilla ingredients in order to help prevent birth defects. Small businesses (food trucks) are exempted.

This one irks the hell out of me:

LIBRARIES (AB 1825) Book Censorship

The California Freedom to React Act prohibits libraries from banning or restricting access to books and other materials based on their content or the author. The law applies to libraries that receive state funding, including school libraries. Minors cannot be prohibited from checking out books with sexual content that is not obscene in nature.

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And who decides what's obscene? The school boards.

[packrat35]

They want to control your kids body and soul and to push perversions and sexual themes on them. They are demons...

[Blurb2350]

I’m guessing you meant to type “folic acid.” Formic acid is something entirely different! And I agree re: pornography. Librarians on the whole are very leftwing, at least as leftwing as the advertising industry. They’re at the forefront of presenting sexual perversion to children . . . without the parents’ knowledge.

[fella]

Lawyers making laws have an automatic conflict of interest. The more laws and the more complicated the system of laws the more billable hours the lawyers will have.

[usconservative]

Anyone want to predict where this one goes?

I'll bet $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ... that it goes exactly like home insurance did in the State of California.

It won't be long before diabetics die as a result. Gavin Newsom will be SHOCKED of course and blame it all on President Trump.

[DesertRhino]

Baloney. The insulin patent history centers on Banting, Best, and Collip selling their 1923 U.S. patent for a symbolic $1 to the University of Toronto, ensuring mass production and accessibility rather than personal profit, famously declaring, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world”. This move allowed Eli Lilly to produce it commercially, but the original patent expired in 1941 and now Big Pharma adds in the slightest tweak possible to patent it as a new medicine... then they azz rape diabetics with something that should be super cheap.

[usconservative]

I think you missed the point which is this: When a government artificially caps the price of something, less of it is produced.

In the case of California, they made it so difficult for any insurance company to make money selling home insurance, many left the state, cancelled policies/let them lapse, and then hopeowners couldn't get insurance.

California became the insurerer of last resort and we see the result of that in the Pacific Palisades fire.

Piss off those making insulin enough through over-regulation and they'll simply stop selling in the state just like what happened in the home insurance sector.

[MikelTackNailer]

I’m guessing you meant to type “folic acid.” Formic acid is something entirely different!

You're right, formic acid is produced by ants. Ant acid. Antacid? Like what I need after eating anything Mrs. Douglas makes? No, that's completely different but it would break that stuff down...

[Blurb2350]

Coincidentally, one of my college chem lab assignments was to identify a small vial of unknown acid. As soon as I unstopped the vial I thought, “Geez, this stuff sure smells like ants!” Of course it turned out to be formic acid.

[mass55th]

"So . . . what’s the deal with tortillas?"

Adding folic acid to prevent birth defects. WTF? Pregnant women are given scripts for folic acid by their doctors. I had my kids in 1966 and 1971, and was given folic acid for both pregnancies. What happens if pregnant women get too much folic acid?

1. Impaired fetal growth and increased risks of childhood diseases such as asthma and autism.

2. A higher chance of the baby developing insulin resistance, diabetes, asthma, and obesity later in life.

3. Masking symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency, which can result in neurological complications if untreated.

4. Potential cognitive decline and developmental problems in children.

[Organic Panic]

If I were a boy..... I would urinate on all the toilet seats in a silent protest.

[Organic Panic]

Well they got all the important things. Like allowing children access to filth in libraries, and protecting illegal aliens.