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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Elder and dependent adult abuse: reporting."
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description: "The Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act establishes various procedures for the reporting, investigation, and prosecution of elder and dependent adult abuse. The act requires certain persons, called mandated reporters, to report known or suspected instances of elder or dependent adult abuse. The act requires a mandated reporter, and authorizes any person who is not a mandated reporter, to report the abuse to the local ombudsman or the local law enforcement agency if the abuse occurs in a long-term care facility. Failure to report physical abuse and financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult under the act is a misdemeanor."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20112012"
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identifier: "AB 40"
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citation: "California AB 40 (20112012)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Elder and dependent adult abuse: reporting."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Yamada"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 9
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first_action: "2010-12-06"
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last_action: "2012-09-27"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20152bd3-d79f-42d2-977d-b9a863c58c5a"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40"
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source_hash: "7a0bddbdd811fd1059115d527f6e379aecafc62104d01ccaffb48888574a87e6"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 40 (20112012) — Elder and dependent adult abuse: reporting.
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The Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act establishes various procedures for the reporting, investigation, and prosecution of elder and dependent adult abuse. The act requires certain persons, called mandated reporters, to report known or suspected instances of elder or dependent adult abuse. The act requires a mandated reporter, and authorizes any person who is not a mandated reporter, to report the abuse to the local ombudsman or the local law enforcement agency if the abuse occurs in a long-term care facility. Failure to report physical abuse and financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult under the act is a misdemeanor.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **12/06/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4099INT)
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2. **03/21/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4098AMD)
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3. **03/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4097AMD)
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4. **06/04/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4096AMD)
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5. **06/18/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4095AMD)
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6. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4094AMD)
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7. **08/23/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4093AMD)
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8. **09/27/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4091CHP)
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9. **AB40** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40)
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10. **09/10/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB40&version=20110AB4092ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 40 YAMADA Assembly Third Reading — **58–18** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 40 YAMADA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–4** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Banking and Financial Institution. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB40 Yamada By Alquist — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Public Safety. — **4–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Yamada — primary (person)
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- Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2010-12-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2010-12-07** From printer. May be heard in committee January 6.
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- **2011-01-24** Referred to Coms. on AGING & L.T.C. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-03-22** Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-03-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2011-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 1503.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2011-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2011-06-02** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and B. & F.I. `referral-committee`
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- **2012-03-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2012-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2012-06-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2012-06-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & F.I. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2012-06-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2012-06-19** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2012-06-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2012-07-02** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2012-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2012-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2012-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2012-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2012-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4892.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2012-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2012-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
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- **2012-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 4. Page 6523.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2012-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:35 p.m.
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- **2012-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2012-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 659, Statutes of 2012.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20152bd3-d79f-42d2-977d-b9a863c58c5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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