Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, makes certain persons, including teachers and social workers, mandated reporters. Under existing law, mandated reporters are required to report whenever the mandated reporter, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their 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. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor. Existing law generally requires prosecution of a misdemeanor to commence within one year after commission of the offense. Under existing law, a case involving the failure to report an incident known or reasonably suspected by the mandated reporter to be sexual assault may be filed at any time within 5 years from the date of occurrence of the offense.
California AB 2274 (20212022) — Mandated reporters: statute of limitations.
Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, makes certain persons, including teachers and social workers, mandated reporters. Under existing law, mandated reporters are required to report whenever the mandated reporter, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their 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. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor. Existing law generally requires prosecution of a misdemeanor to commence within one year after commission of the offense. Under existing law, a case involving the failure to report an incident known or reasonably suspected by the mandated reporter to be sexual assault may be filed at any time within 5 years from the date of occurrence of the offense.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Special Consent AB2274 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
AB 2274 Blanca Rubio Assembly Third Reading — 66–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Blanca Rubio — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-03-24 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-1, reading-2
2022-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-03-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2022-03-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2022-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 4605.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2022-05-18 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. referral-committee
2022-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-06-27 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-08-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4980.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-08-23 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2022-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 587, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f530d345-5424-4e22-b4d6-f2a7d52f5b45. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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