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Bill	Child abuse: mandated reporters: talent agents, managers, and coaches.	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	20252026	AB 653	California AB 653 (20252026)	bill	Childabuse mandatedreporters talentagents managers andcoaches	enacted	Lackey	9	31	8	2025-02-13	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c2412f19-f30f-4c77-99ae-9650d2136826	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653	dca0cb59625e7e2c8adcceb4de3ca8ab2d73e176a4f57d449c0eb7f65aabbb39	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 653 (20252026) — Child abuse: mandated reporters: talent agents, managers, and coaches.

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. 02/13/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB653 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 653 Lackey Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB653 Lackey et al. By Grove — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 653 Lackey Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lackey — primary (person)
• Blanca Rubio — author (person)
• Grove — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 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
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-21 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
• 2025-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2079.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-14 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2932.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-13 Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
• 2025-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3496.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 379, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2412f19-f30f-4c77-99ae-9650d2136826. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).