Assemblymember Mark González, left, saw his bill on adding The Trevor Project’s number to student ID cards pass, while state Senator Caroline Menjivar has paused her bill expanding youth access to condoms.

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A bill addressing LGBTQ teen suicide prevention that Governor Gavin Newsom has pledged to sign into law was among the final batch of LGBTQ-focused legislation moving on this Legislative session. Bills addressing access to HIV prevention medicines and the legal process to change one’s name and gender also survived their latest legislative hurdles.   State legislators had to meet a June 6 deadline to pass bills out of their chamber of origin in the Legislature. Of the 20 bills of importance to the LGBTQ community that the Bay Area Reporter has been tracking

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