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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 up to 6 months, a fine of $1,000, or by both.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1264	California SB 1264 (20112012)	bill	Child abuse reporting: mandated reporters.	enacted	Vargas	6	27	8	2012-02-23	2012-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/756d68b6-6e33-4249-9404-046610bf9c89	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1264	5b6042ef17068218006bed7bf61d5b5a7303cc296a24801bd108081c140b8c53	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1264 (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 up to 6 months, a fine of $1,000, or by both.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/24/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/24/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1264 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #12 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1264 Vargas Senate Third Reading By AMMIANO — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1264 Vargas Concurrence — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Vargas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2012-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3209.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-27 Set for hearing May 7.
• 2012-05-07 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-05-18 Set for hearing May 24.
• 2012-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3594.) (May 24). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3750.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-08 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. 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. (Page 6252.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6449.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4971.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2012-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 518, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/756d68b6-6e33-4249-9404-046610bf9c89. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).