 Other laws Howard has worked on through the Children's Advocacy Institute include the law that permits more than two parents to be legally recognized as parents and AB 2632 (Maienschein) (2014) that requires criminal record clearances in community care facilities.In 2007 Howard also became the Senior Counsel for the Center for Public Interest Law, a nonprofit, nonpartisan academic and advocacy organization also based in the University of San Diego School of Law that studies occupational licensing and monitors California agencies that regulate businesses, trades, and professions.Howard's work with the Center for Public Interest Law includes enactment of reforms dealing with the accountancy profession, reform of the regulation of for-profit postsecondary education businesses, SB 658 (2011) (the nation's first law regulating funeral website pricing), and reforming the State Bar of California.