Hunter Tylo considers one her best achievements the forming and passing of California State Bill AB2185. She and her husband Michael worked together on the bill as a team for over a year. The bill, signed into law September 2000, provides all infants in the state of California with pupil dilation for detection of preventable forms of blindness and fatal diseases.

Hunter and her husband are no strangers to the threat of pediatric eye disease. After the birth of their fourth child, little Katya was diagnosed with a deadly eye cancer, retinoblastoma. The cancer went undetected until Katya was three months old, as there was no protocol for eye screenings of infants, and she lost her right eye three days after diagnosis. Her left eye, also affected with six tumors, was saved through laser and chemotherapy. Katya is well today and turned three in January.