republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-189.md

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Bill	Child abuse or neglect: mandated reporters: autism service personnel.	Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever they, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, have knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months of confinement in a county jail, by a fine of $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 189	California AB 189 (20192020)	bill	Child abuse or neglect: mandated reporters: autism service personnel.	enacted	Kamlager-Dove	6	25	8	2019-01-10	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/115bbe58-f567-4efd-b6ce-de25e91e9694	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB189	83471afa438d507f4269adc39c165dccf07911337306ab94366f2b2bd7855e73	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 189 (20192020) — Child abuse or neglect: mandated reporters: autism service personnel.

Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever they, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, have knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months of confinement in a county jail, by a fine of $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine.

Version chain

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

1. 01/10/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/07/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB189 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 189 Kamlager-Dove Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB189 Kamlager-Dove et al. By Mitchell — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 189 Kamlager-Dove Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kamlager-Dove — primary (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Reyes — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-11 From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-02-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-02-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-03-20 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-03-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-03-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 918.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-03-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-05-07 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2783.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3378.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 674, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/115bbe58-f567-4efd-b6ce-de25e91e9694. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).