BILL NUMBER: AB 1505	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garcia

                        JANUARY 14, 2014

   An act relating to mandated reporters.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1505, as introduced, Garcia. Child abuse: mandated reporters.
   Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires
a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his
or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her
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.
   This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation to provide greater consistency among the kinds of
abuse and neglect that must be reported pursuant to the Child Abuse
and Neglect Reporting Act.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to provide greater consistency among the kinds of abuse
and neglect that must be reported pursuant to the Child Abuse and
Neglect Reporting Act.