republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2274.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mandated reporters: statute of limitations."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2274"
citation: "California AB 2274 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mandated reporters: statute of limitations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blanca Rubio"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f530d345-5424-4e22-b4d6-f2a7d52f5b45"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2274"
source_hash: "6cdfea5446c5ae38eff69c2484e5626d6c6af352ca987c5afb349804a5f99b2f"
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 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.

1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2274&version=20210AB227499INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2274&version=20210AB227498AMD)
3. **03/31/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2274&version=20210AB227497AMD)
4. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2274&version=20210AB227495CHP)
5. **AB2274** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2274)
6. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2274&version=20210AB227496ENR)

## Votes

- 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f530d345-5424-4e22-b4d6-f2a7d52f5b45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).