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type: "Bill"
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title: "Child abuse: mandated reporters: talent agents, managers, and coaches."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 653"
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citation: "California AB 653 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Childabuse", "mandatedreporters", "talentagents", "managers", "andcoaches"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-02-13"
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last_action: "2025-10-06"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2412f19-f30f-4c77-99ae-9650d2136826"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653"
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source_hash: "dca0cb59625e7e2c8adcceb4de3ca8ab2d73e176a4f57d449c0eb7f65aabbb39"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 653 (20252026) — Child abuse: mandated reporters: talent agents, managers, and coaches.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653&version=20250AB65399INT)
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2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653&version=20250AB65398AMD)
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3. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653&version=20250AB65397AMD)
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4. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653&version=20250AB65396AMD)
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5. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653&version=20250AB65395AMD)
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6. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653&version=20250AB65394AMD)
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7. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653&version=20250AB65392CHP)
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8. **AB653** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653)
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9. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB653&version=20250AB65393ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 653 Lackey Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Special Consent AB653 Lackey et al. By Grove — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 653 Lackey Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Lackey — primary (person)
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- Blanca Rubio — author (person)
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- Grove — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
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- **2025-03-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2025-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2025-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2079.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2025-07-14** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-09** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2932.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-13** Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
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- **2025-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3496.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 379, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2412f19-f30f-4c77-99ae-9650d2136826`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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