republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20032004/ab-2531.md

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Bill	Child abuse reporting.	Child abuse reporting.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20032004	AB 2531	California AB 2531 (20032004)	bill	Child abuse reporting.	enacted	Bates	6	22	6	2004-02-20	2004-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/78fa5449-09eb-4672-a07a-92dfe61c5cff	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2531	41356c2a2bfd378b3638b8d2e67d9f7adfc72173ea9a27e500e372513b309640	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2531 (20032004) — Child abuse reporting.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/04 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/04 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/19/04 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/24/04 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2531 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/04 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• ab 2531 bates consent calendar second day regular session — pass (pass) · lower
• do pass, to consent calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• assembly 3rd reading ab2531 bates by ashburn — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• ab 2531 bates concurrence in senate amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bates — primary (person)
• Benoit — coauthor (person)
• Bermudez — coauthor (person)
• Daucher — coauthor (person)
• Harman — coauthor (person)
• Haynes — coauthor (person)
• Houston — coauthor (person)
• Jerome Horton — coauthor (person)
• Maze — coauthor (person)
• McPherson — coauthor (person)
• Pacheco — coauthor (person)
• Salinas — coauthor (person)
• Samuelian — coauthor (person)
• Spitzer — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2004-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 762, Statutes of 2004.
• 2004-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2004-09-08 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2004-08-25 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7721.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 7731.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2004-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2004-08-24 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5290.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2004-08-23 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-08-19 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2004-06-22 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-06-21 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2004-06-02 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2004-05-13 Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. referral-committee
• 2004-05-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2004-04-29 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5433.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2004-04-26 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-04-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2004-04-14 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2004-04-13 Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2004-04-12 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 30). referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage
• 2004-03-08 Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. referral-committee
• 2004-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2004-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78fa5449-09eb-4672-a07a-92dfe61c5cff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).