(The Center Square) – A bill introduced by the Legislature’s Democratic leadership would allocate $90 million from California’s general fund to grants to organizations such as Planned Parenthood.
Senate Bill 106 was announced on Friday by the offices of Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Salinas.
While the bill specifies that the $90 million could go to any family planning provider that is subject to federal funding cuts, Limón and Rivas identified Planned Parenthood as the main intended recipient.
The bill also stipulates that $140.2 million of general fund money can go toward health care programs, including residency slots at public health centers and infrastructure improvements and expansion at existing health facilities. The $90 million allocation to organizations like Planned Parenthood would be part of the $140.2 million the bill would allocate to taxpayer-funded health programs.
The funding package, according to the offices of Limón and Rivas, is meant to help bolster organizations like Planned Parenthood as family planning clinics that provide abortion care grapple with significantly decreased federal funding. Despite the cuts, Planned Parenthood stated on its website that the organization is still open to provide abortions, birth control and other services.
“Funding for women’s health care has come under attack since the federal administration passed H.R. 1 last summer,” Limón wrote in a statement sent to The Center Square on Tuesday. She was referring to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by Congress.
“The bill severely limits services provided by Planned Parenthood, including access to reproductive care,” the senator said. “I am grateful our state was able to allocate $90 million through an early budget action that will allow Planned Parenthood to continue providing essential health care to millions.”
Planned Parenthood, which is headquartered in New York City, did not make anyone from the organization available to answer questions from The Center Square. However, pro-life organization Right to Life California had something to say this week about Planned Parenthood potentially getting so much money from the state.
“It’s interesting that even Newsom wouldn’t give them everything they asked for,” Mary Rose Short, director of outreach for Right to Life California, told The Center Square. “The taxpayers will be giving them over $200 million, and for a very specific subset of the population and not helping women who want to keep their babies.”
The announcement that the state is moving forward in allocating general fund money to Planned Parenthood and other similar health care providers comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s October announcement that the state would give $140 million to the organization.
Under the federal government’s budget this year, otherwise known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, no federal funding can go to nonprofit medical service providers that primarily provide family planning services, reproductive health services and abortion.
According to data from research group the Guttmacher Institute, the number of clinician-provided abortions in California declined 2% between 2024 and 2025, falling from 93,940 to 92,460. The number of patients who traveled to California from out of state for abortion care declined 30% during the same time frame, falling from 2,000 to 1,400, according to the Guttmacher data.
Other legislators in California on both sides of the aisle were not available to speak with The Center Square on Tuesday.
