(1) The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act requires a mandated reporter, as defined and including an administrator or employee of a public or private organization whose duties require direct contact and supervision of children, to make a report to a specified agency whenever the mandated reporter, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Under existing law, the failure to make this report is a crime. Existing law also prohibits a supervisor or administrator from impeding or inhibiting the reporting duties, provides that a person making the report shall not be subject to any sanctions for making the report, and prohibits internal procedures to facilitate reporting from requiring any employee required to make reports to disclose his or her identity to the employer.
California AB 1001 (20152016) — Child abuse: reporting: foster family agencies.
(1) The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act requires a mandated reporter, as defined and including an administrator or employee of a public or private organization whose duties require direct contact and supervision of children, to make a report to a specified agency whenever the mandated reporter, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Under existing law, the failure to make this report is a crime. Existing law also prohibits a supervisor or administrator from impeding or inhibiting the reporting duties, provides that a person making the report shall not be subject to any sanctions for making the report, and prohibits internal procedures to facilitate reporting from requiring any employee required to make reports to disclose his or her identity to the employer.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 1001 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
AB 1001 MAIENSCHEIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Maienschein — primary (person)
Anderson — coauthor (person)
Baker — coauthor (person)
Bates — coauthor (person)
Calderon — coauthor (person)
Cannella — coauthor (person)
Chávez — coauthor (person)
Cooley — coauthor (person)
Gallagher — coauthor (person)
Grove — coauthor (person)
Hadley — coauthor (person)
Olsen — coauthor (person)
Runner — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
2015-03-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2015-04-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2015-04-21 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2016-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2016-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
2016-01-05 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 5). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee, committee-passage
2016-01-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 12). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2016-01-14 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2016-01-15 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2016-01-21 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-01-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2016-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3509.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-01-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2016-02-04 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and PUB. S. referral-committee
2016-05-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 10). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2016-05-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-06-27 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
2016-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2016-06-30 From Consent Calendar.
2016-06-30 Ordered to third reading.
2016-08-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-08-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5237.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2016-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6286.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2016-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2016-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2016-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 850, Statutes of 2016.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1692359b-a799-4293-af8e-a9893f4f3abd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).