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Bill	Mandated child abuse reporting: child day care personnel: training.	Under existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State Department of Social Services licenses and regulates child day care facilities, as defined. The act requires that, as a condition of licensure and in addition to any other required training, at least one director or teacher at each day care center, and each family day care home licensee who provides care, have at least 15 hours of health and safety training, covering specified components, including preventative health practices courses, that may include identification and reporting of signs and symptoms of child abuse. A willful or repeated violation of the act is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment in county jail for a period not to exceed 180 days, or by both the fine and imprisonment, and a serious violation of the act is subject to daily civil penalties, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1207	California AB 1207 (20152016)	bill	Mandated child abuse reporting: child day care personnel: training.	enacted	Lopez	7	23	8	2015-02-27	2015-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/497c65e5-021c-463c-86cd-0e2c99f9b351	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1207	221f79e9b7860eba849e8e4ffaca3b32dc7ad3adb8ba1b7f72806ebb0910f3c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1207 (20152016) — Mandated child abuse reporting: child day care personnel: training.

Under existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State Department of Social Services licenses and regulates child day care facilities, as defined. The act requires that, as a condition of licensure and in addition to any other required training, at least one director or teacher at each day care center, and each family day care home licensee who provides care, have at least 15 hours of health and safety training, covering specified components, including preventative health practices courses, that may include identification and reporting of signs and symptoms of child abuse. A willful or repeated violation of the act is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment in county jail for a period not to exceed 180 days, or by both the fine and imprisonment, and a serious violation of the act is subject to daily civil penalties, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/10/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/31/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/01/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1207 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1207 LOPEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1207 LOPEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1207 Lopez By Hancock — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lopez — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1350.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-21 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-10 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2705.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3148.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2015-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 414, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/497c65e5-021c-463c-86cd-0e2c99f9b351. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).