---
type: "Bill"
title: "Superintendent of Public Instruction: child abuse and neglect: poster."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Education to adopt guidelines to be disseminated to parents or guardians of pupils that describe the procedures that a parent or guardian can follow in filing a complaint of child abuse with the school or a child protective services agency against a school employee or other person that commits an act of child abuse against a pupil at a schoolsite."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1178"
citation: "California SB 1178 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Superintendent of Public Instruction: child abuse and neglect: poster."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vidak"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-18"
last_action: "2016-08-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d9236cc-6c2b-484a-be22-8d3216790426"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1178"
source_hash: "4ad0773e46afeeadec1458967a01faec8b55dd46ff23c99f785db67231c8d787"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 1178 (20152016) — Superintendent of Public Instruction: child abuse and neglect: poster.

Existing law requires the State Department of Education to adopt guidelines to be disseminated to parents or guardians of pupils that describe the procedures that a parent or guardian can follow in filing a complaint of child abuse with the school or a child protective services agency against a school employee or other person that commits an act of child abuse against a pupil at a schoolsite.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1178&version=20150SB117899INT)
2. **08/22/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1178&version=20150SB117897CHP)
3. **SB1178** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1178)
4. **08/05/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1178&version=20150SB117898ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1178 Vidak Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vidak — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-11** Set for hearing March 30.
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3333.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-01** Set for hearing April 11.
- **2016-04-11** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2016-04-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3625.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-04** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5720.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-04** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2016-08-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2016-08-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 171, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d9236cc-6c2b-484a-be22-8d3216790426`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).