Bill Text: CA AB2302 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Enrolled
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Bill Title: Child abuse: sexual assault: mandated reporters: statute of limitations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 943, Statutes of 2018. [AB2302 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2302-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: Child abuse: sexual assault: mandated reporters: statute of limitations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 943, Statutes of 2018. [AB2302 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2302-Enrolled.html
Enrolled
August 29, 2018 |
Passed
IN
Senate
August 21, 2018 |
Passed
IN
Assembly
August 27, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Senate
August 13, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Senate
July 05, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 15, 2018 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill | No. 2302 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Baker (Coauthors: Assembly Members Acosta, Cooper, Mathis, and Rodriguez) (Coauthor: Senator Nguyen) |
February 13, 2018 |
An act to amend Section 801.6 of the Penal Code, relating to mandated reporters.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2302, Baker.
Child abuse: sexual assault: 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 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. 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, if the mandated reporter intentionally conceals his or her failure to report an incident known by the mandated reporter to be abuse or severe neglect, it is a continuing
offense until discovered by the appropriate law enforcement agency.
This bill would allow a case involving the failure to report an incident known or reasonably suspected by the mandated reporter to be sexual assault, as defined, to be filed at any time within 5 years from the date of occurrence of the offense.