---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child abuse or neglect: mandated reporters: autism service personnel."
description: "Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever they, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, have knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months of confinement in a county jail, by a fine of $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 189"
citation: "California AB 189 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child abuse or neglect: mandated reporters: autism service personnel."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kamlager-Dove"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/115bbe58-f567-4efd-b6ce-de25e91e9694"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB189"
source_hash: "83471afa438d507f4269adc39c165dccf07911337306ab94366f2b2bd7855e73"
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 AB 189 (20192020) — Child abuse or neglect: mandated reporters: autism service personnel.

Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever they, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, have knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months of confinement in a county jail, by a fine of $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB189&version=20190AB18999INT)
2. **05/07/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB189&version=20190AB18998AMD)
3. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB189&version=20190AB18997AMD)
4. **10/09/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB189&version=20190AB18995CHP)
5. **AB189** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB189)
6. **09/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB189&version=20190AB18996ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 189 Kamlager-Dove Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB189 Kamlager-Dove et al. By Mitchell — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 189 Kamlager-Dove Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kamlager-Dove — primary (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Brough — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-02-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-03-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 918.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-03-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2783.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
- **2019-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3378.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 674, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/115bbe58-f567-4efd-b6ce-de25e91e9694`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).