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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

NEWSOM’S AB144 POWER GRAB

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

California lawmakers quietly gutted budget bill AB144 on the last day of session and slipped in sweeping changes to vaccine and parental rights. Amy Bohn of PERK explains how the law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom bypassed the legislative process, hands vaccine decision-making power to the California Department of Public Health, revives HPV recommendations, expands liability protections, and sidelines future ACIP and CDC recommendations.

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0:00.0

While we're having amazing successes on the national front, and while Robert Kennedy Jr. is making huge strides now, we're having, we're going to talk about incredible ASIP meetings that are going on and all the changes that are happening.

0:14.0

It sounds like we have breaking news now that California has decided to go even deeper into the dark ages. I'm being joined by Amy Bond.

0:22.2

All right, Amy Bond, live from California.

0:25.1

What is happening?

0:28.6

All right, so there's never a dull moment in California.

0:32.1

And honestly, I cannot believe this truthfully.

0:35.3

So just a couple of days ago what happened is there was an

0:38.5

there's a budget bill that was introduced in January of this year it was just

0:43.7

it was just a placeholder bill there was nothing to it but on September 12th the

0:48.9

last day of the legislative session they got it and amended this entire

0:53.7

placeholder bill and filled it with everything

0:58.2

that we would not want related to immunizations, health, health freedom, parental rights.

1:04.6

It's atrocious. And they've already passed the bill. So they passed it without any due

1:10.1

process, no public comment, no committee

1:13.2

hearings, no stakeholders to oppose. And this bill is, it's awful. I'm almost speechless. I'm not

1:21.8

speechless, but I am almost speechless because it's so, so bad. So what it's done is it's going to be changing

1:30.0

so many things related to immunizations in California.

1:33.8

Do you want me to start to go into what the bill does?

1:36.0

I mean, because, I mean, it's really unfortunate

1:38.7

because there's been so much progress there

1:41.8

getting people to re-look, you know, re-litigigate SB27, SB276.

1:47.0

You're even starting to get Democrats that are questioning it.

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