republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-406.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child abuse reporting."
description: "Existing law, until January 1, 2014, authorizes counties to establish a child abuse multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, to allow provider agencies to share confidential information in order to investigate reports of suspected child abuse or neglect or for the purpose of child welfare agencies making detention determinations, as specified. Existing law authorizes members of the team, for 30 days, or longer if good cause exists, following a report of suspected child abuse or neglect, to disclose to and exchange with one another information and writings related to any incident of child abuse that are designated as confidential if the member of the team reasonably believes it is relevant to the prevention, identification, or treatment of child abuse. Existing law authorizes the disclosure and exchange of this information to occur telephonically and electronically if there is adequate verification of the identity of the multidisciplinary personnel who are involved in that disclosure or exchange of information. Existing law requires that the sharing of information permitted in the period following a report of suspected child abuse or neglect be governed by protocols developed in each county describing how and what information may be shared to ensure that confidential information is not disclosed in violation of state or federal law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 406"
citation: "California AB 406 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child abuse reporting."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Torres"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2013-02-15"
last_action: "2013-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a205a980-5a7b-42ce-804f-d0c90e605b09"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB406"
source_hash: "5bcc62f09e1421bb70575b4437291926a3576f9dc26a5fd17c1801b5250b51e8"
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 406 (20132014) — Child abuse reporting.

Existing law, until January 1, 2014, authorizes counties to establish a child abuse multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, to allow provider agencies to share confidential information in order to investigate reports of suspected child abuse or neglect or for the purpose of child welfare agencies making detention determinations, as specified. Existing law authorizes members of the team, for 30 days, or longer if good cause exists, following a report of suspected child abuse or neglect, to disclose to and exchange with one another information and writings related to any incident of child abuse that are designated as confidential if the member of the team reasonably believes it is relevant to the prevention, identification, or treatment of child abuse. Existing law authorizes the disclosure and exchange of this information to occur telephonically and electronically if there is adequate verification of the identity of the multidisciplinary personnel who are involved in that disclosure or exchange of information. Existing law requires that the sharing of information permitted in the period following a report of suspected child abuse or neglect be governed by protocols developed in each county describing how and what information may be shared to ensure that confidential information is not disclosed in violation of state or federal law.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB406&version=20130AB40699INT)
2. **06/11/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB406&version=20130AB40697CHP)
3. **AB406** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB406)
4. **05/24/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB406&version=20130AB40698ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB406 Torres By Torres — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 406 TORRES Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Torres — primary (person)
- Bloom — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-04** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 884.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 970.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-05-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:15 p.m.
- **2013-06-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-06-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 7, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a205a980-5a7b-42ce-804f-d0c90e605b09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).