California laws about minors dating adults

These include measures on the needs of adolescents for preventing teen pregnancies and social protection for teen parents. Meanwhile, there are at least three bills pending in the House in the 18th Congress in relation to teenage pregnancies. One of the bills, by Senator Risa Hontiveros, includes a “sweetheart provision” that allows consensual, non-exploitative, non-abusive sexual relations between two minors whose age difference is not more than four years. and there are three bills related to raising the age of sexual consent in the Senate pending with the respective committees. The minimum current age of sexual consent is 12 years old.Ī Senate panel on October 1, 2020, also approved proposed measures to raise the age of sexual consent to 16 years old. It considers rape if an adult has sexual contact with a minor who is below 16 years old.

House Bill 7839 was approved on December 1, 2020.