republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1432.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mandated child abuse reporting: school employees: training."
description: "The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act requires a mandated reporter, which includes a teacher or one of certain other types of school employees, 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 has observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop staff development seminars and any other appropriate means of instructing school personnel in the detection of child abuse and neglect and the proper action that school personnel should take in suspected cases of child abuse and neglect. Existing law requires school districts that do not train their employees in the duties of mandated reporters under the child abuse reporting laws to report to the State Department of Education the reasons why this training is not provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1432"
citation: "California AB 1432 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mandated child abuse reporting: school employees: training."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gatto"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2014-01-06"
last_action: "2014-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4abfd1a3-08f8-43e5-8862-afa9cba35f00"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432"
source_hash: "86c81051c7d4d9fddc2f63fee9209dbe35760ec701aa4ab4424d86fe1efba902"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1432 (20132014) — Mandated child abuse reporting: school employees: training.

The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act requires a mandated reporter, which includes a teacher or one of certain other types of school employees, 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 has observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop staff development seminars and any other appropriate means of instructing school personnel in the detection of child abuse and neglect and the proper action that school personnel should take in suspected cases of child abuse and neglect. Existing law requires school districts that do not train their employees in the duties of mandated reporters under the child abuse reporting laws to report to the State Department of Education the reasons why this training is not provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/06/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432&version=20130AB143299INT)
2. **02/11/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432&version=20130AB143298AMD)
3. **05/07/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432&version=20130AB143297AMD)
4. **05/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432&version=20130AB143296AMD)
5. **08/04/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432&version=20130AB143295AMD)
6. **09/29/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432&version=20130AB143293CHP)
7. **AB1432** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432)
8. **08/26/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1432&version=20130AB143294ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1432 GATTO Assembly Third Reading — **66–5** (pass) · lower
- AB 1432 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **61–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **13–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Public Safety. — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1432 Gatto By DeSaulnier — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gatto — primary (person)
- Bonilla — principal coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- Cannella — coauthor (person)
- Dababneh — coauthor (person)
- Dickinson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-01-07** From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
- **2014-01-17** Referred to Coms. on ED. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-02-12** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-07** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-08** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) . `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 5. Page 5232.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-05** Referred to Coms. on ED. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 4654.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 13. Page 6319.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 797, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4abfd1a3-08f8-43e5-8862-afa9cba35f00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).