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Bill	Child abuse reporting.	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 1817	California AB 1817 (20112012)	bill	Child abuse reporting.	enacted	Atkins	9	30	8	2012-02-21	2012-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/8ce782df-c76e-4cf5-8ab1-6ddeb506bf2d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1817	b95232a8668f48e813f76b1cfbf02fe354964f299eccf1ffed86d7c025154028	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1817 (20112012) — Child abuse reporting.

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. 02/21/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/19/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/07/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/13/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/24/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1817 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1817 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1817 Atkins By Hancock — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1817 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Atkins — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-19 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-02 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-05-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5030.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 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
• 2012-06-25 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
• 2012-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 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
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4928.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-30 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6645.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 521, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ce782df-c76e-4cf5-8ab1-6ddeb506bf2d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).