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Bill	Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act: sexual abuse.	Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, defines sexual abuse as sexual assault or sexual exploitation for purposes of mandating certain persons to report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect. Under the act, sexual exploitation refers to, among other things, a person who depicts a child in, or who knowingly develops, duplicates, prints, or exchanges, a film, photograph, videotape, negative, or slide in which a child is engaged in an act of obscene sexual conduct, except as specified. Failure to report known or suspected instances of child abuse, including sexual abuse, under the act is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1775	California AB 1775 (20132014)	bill	Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act: sexual abuse.	enacted	Melendez	6	23	6	2014-02-18	2014-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/b99f48ea-b095-4f09-969f-ec16e02c79d0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1775	41b29dfae83dbfb24badd27bba06d37936b7aff655e9a7e6aea5be1c09acfc43	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1775 (20132014) — Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act: sexual abuse.

Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, defines sexual abuse as sexual assault or sexual exploitation for purposes of mandating certain persons to report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect. Under the act, sexual exploitation refers to, among other things, a person who depicts a child in, or who knowingly develops, duplicates, prints, or exchanges, a film, photograph, videotape, negative, or slide in which a child is engaged in an act of obscene sexual conduct, except as specified. Failure to report known or suspected instances of child abuse, including sexual abuse, under the act is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/13/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1775 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/08/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #18 — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1775 MELENDEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1775 MELENDEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Melendez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2014-02-27 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-20 Measure version as amended on March 19 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2014-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-09 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-04-10 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4598.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-04-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-05-13 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-06-25 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2014-07-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4256.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-07-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5901.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2014-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 264, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b99f48ea-b095-4f09-969f-ec16e02c79d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).