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type: "Bill"
title: "Elder abuse."
description: "Existing law makes it a crime for a person who knows or reasonably should know that a person is an elder or dependent adult to willfully cause or permit the person or health of the elder or dependent adult to be injured, or willfully cause or permit the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his or her person or health is endangered. Existing law specifies penalties for a person who violates any provision of law proscribing theft, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or specified identity theft provisions of law when the victim is an elder or dependent adult. Existing law makes it a crime to falsely imprison an elder or dependent adult by the use of violence, menace, fraud, or deceit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 352"
citation: "California SB 352 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elder abuse."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Block"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2015-09-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ed6391b-07b6-4dc3-903b-9d8caca93dc3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB352"
source_hash: "5774a59fd2023fd9ab8597ac81bdf787371c8cd9c63bb04fe7217a8e638e1500"
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 SB 352 (20152016) — Elder abuse.
Existing law makes it a crime for a person who knows or reasonably should know that a person is an elder or dependent adult to willfully cause or permit the person or health of the elder or dependent adult to be injured, or willfully cause or permit the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his or her person or health is endangered. Existing law specifies penalties for a person who violates any provision of law proscribing theft, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or specified identity theft provisions of law when the victim is an elder or dependent adult. Existing law makes it a crime to falsely imprison an elder or dependent adult by the use of violence, menace, fraud, or deceit.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB352&version=20150SB35299INT)
2. **06/17/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB352&version=20150SB35298AMD)
3. **09/08/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB352&version=20150SB35296CHP)
4. **SB352** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB352)
5. **08/24/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB352&version=20150SB35297ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- SB 352 Block Consent Calendar Second Day — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **360** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #6**380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Block — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-24** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-02** Set for hearing April 28.
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 822.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-01** Set for hearing May 11.
- **2015-05-11** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2015-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1021.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-16** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-08** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2433.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-08-19** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2015-08-20** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2015-09-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 279, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ed6391b-07b6-4dc3-903b-9d8caca93dc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).