---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes."
description: "Existing law makes it a crime for a parent or guardian of a minor child to willfully omit, without lawful excuse, clothing, food, shelter, or medical care for the child. Existing law also makes it a crime for a parent or guardian to desert a child under 14 years of age with the intent to abandon that child."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1432"
citation: "California AB 1432 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mitchell"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-07-12"
last_action: "2012-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fc8b290-9c8d-48b7-8c6d-a6782e53b3ba"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432"
source_hash: "7542bc48cc4cf948d9da5a9e14b4fcadabc5b5f154b8cdea1c3bcce2d0e55610"
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 1432 (20112012) — Crimes.

Existing law makes it a crime for a parent or guardian of a minor child to willfully omit, without lawful excuse, clothing, food, shelter, or medical care for the child. Existing law also makes it a crime for a parent or guardian to desert a child under 14 years of age with the intent to abandon that child.

## Version chain

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

1. **07/12/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432&version=20110AB143299INT)
2. **01/04/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432&version=20110AB143297AMD)
3. **05/25/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432&version=20110AB143296AMD)
4. **08/18/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432&version=20110AB143298AMD)
5. **08/20/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432&version=20110AB143295AMD)
6. **09/30/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432&version=20110AB143293CHP)
7. **AB1432** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432)
8. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1432&version=20110AB143294ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1432 MITCHELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1432 Mitchell By Price — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1432 MITCHELL Third Reading Urgency — **67–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mitchell — primary (person)
- Morrell — principal coauthor (person)
- Torres — coauthor (person)
- Valadao — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — principal coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-07-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-07-13** From printer. May be heard in committee August 12.
- **2011-08-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-22** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-01-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (January 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-01-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-01-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 3. Page 3600.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-01-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-16** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set.
- **2012-05-25** 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-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 4713.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 5. Page 6297.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 805, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9fc8b290-9c8d-48b7-8c6d-a6782e53b3ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).