Plain English Breakdown
The official status indicates the bill passed both chambers, but the last action listed is a canceled hearing from April 2026, creating uncertainty about its final enactment date.
AB-1880: PINK Alert System for Pregnant Persons
This bill states legislative intent to create a PINK Alert system and requires state agencies to build a registration-based notification tool that allows individuals to text emergency services about pregnant persons needing shelter or prenatal care.
What This Bill Does
- States the Legislature's intent to enact legislation creating a PINK Alert to notify law enforcement, emergency services, homeless shelters, and nonprofits about pregnant persons in need of shelter or prenatal services.
- Requires the Department of Social Services, working with the Department of Housing and Community Development, to create a registration-based notification system for these alerts.
- Authorizes an individual helping a pregnant person to text a specified number to report that person's location to emergency services.
- Allows the sender to specify if the pregnant person needs housing or prenatal medical services.
- Encourages local emergency services to assist by taking the pregnant person to the nearest hospital or shelter.
Who It Names or Affects
- Pregnant persons seeking shelter or emergency prenatal services.
- The Department of Social Services and the Department of Housing and Community Development, which must create the system.
- Law enforcement agencies, emergency services, homeless shelters, and nonprofit organizations that receive alerts.
Terms To Know
- PINK Alert
- A registration-based notification system designed to issue and coordinate alerts for pregnant persons seeking shelter or emergency prenatal services.
- Registration-based notification system
- A method where information is registered so that alerts can be issued and coordinated regarding a person in need.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill states legislative intent to enact the alert but does not confirm if the full legislation has been passed into law.
- The specific phone number for texting is described as 'a specified number' without providing the actual digits in this text.
- Emergency services are encouraged, but not required by this text, to take pregnant persons to hospitals or shelters.