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Bill	Child abuse reporting: mandated reporters.	Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure to report an incident is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months, a fine of up to $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1434	California AB 1434 (20112012)	bill	Child abuse reporting: mandated reporters.	enacted	Feuer	7	25	8	2012-01-04	2012-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/17bf9c11-077c-4ee9-8048-a017c17ce91b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1434	2160ddd51ce583b0f661a2a8beba532045ac75d1dde8eda248132e1f4791b00d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1434 (20112012) — Child abuse reporting: mandated reporters.

Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure to report an incident is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months, a fine of up to $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. 01/04/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/24/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1434 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1434 FEUER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1434 FEUER Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1434 Feuer By Calderon — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Feuer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-01-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-01-05 From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
• 2012-01-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-03-14 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-03-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-03-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4336.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-04-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-02 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4884.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6532.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
• 2012-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 519, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17bf9c11-077c-4ee9-8048-a017c17ce91b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).