California 2009-2010 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 2229 — Mandated child abuse reporting.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 464, Statutes of 2010.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2010. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 8 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Existing law authorizes members of a multidisciplinary personnel team engaged in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse to disclose and exchange information and writings to and with one another relating to any incidents of child abuse that may also be a part of a juvenile court record or otherwise designated as confidential under state law if the member of the team having that information or writing reasonably believes it is generally relevant to the prevention, identification, or treatment of child abuse. Under existing law, all discussions relative to the disclosure or exchange of this information during team meetings are confidential and testimony concerning those discussions is not admissible in any criminal, civil, or juvenile court proceeding. A multidisciplinary personnel team is defined for purposes of this provision to mean any team of 3 or more persons who are trained in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse, as specified. This bill would, until January 1, 2014, additionally authorize the disclosure and exchange of information to occur telephonically and electronically, for 30 days, or longer if documented good cause exists, following a report of suspected child abuse or neglect, if there is adequate verification of the identity of the multidisciplinary personnel who are involved in that disclosure or exchange of information. The bill would revise the definition of a multidisciplinary personnel team for purposes of this provision to mean any team of 2 or more persons created to investigate a report of suspected child abuse, as specified, who are trained in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse, as specified. The bill would require 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. Existing law provides that a county may establish a computerized database system within that county to allow provider agencies to share identifying information regarding families at risk for child abuse or neglect, for the purpose of forming multidisciplinary personnel teams for the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of child abuse. A multidisciplinary personnel team is defined for purposes of this provision to mean any team of 3 or more persons who are trained in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse, as specified. This bill would revise the definition of multidisciplinary personnel teams for purposes of this provision to additionally include any team of 2 or more persons who are trained in the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of child abuse, as specified. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 18961.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by this bill and AB 2322, to become operative only if this bill and AB 2322 are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is chaptered last.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 464, Statutes of 2010.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6487.)

  5. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6463.)

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.

  7. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4711.)

  8. Read second time. To third reading.

  9. Read third time, amended. To second reading.

  10. Ordered to third reading.

  11. From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.

  12. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.

  13. Read second time. To third reading.

  14. From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

  15. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  17. From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29).

  18. From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 22).

  19. Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and PUB. S.

  20. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  21. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5451.)

  22. Ordered to third reading.

  23. From Consent Calendar.

  24. Read second time. To Consent Calendar.

  25. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 19).

  26. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5.

  27. Read second time. To third reading.

  28. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  29. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 27).

  30. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.

  31. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.

  32. From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 13).

  33. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  34. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.

  35. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  36. Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  37. From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  38. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Brownley · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Brownley

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

AB 2229 BROWNLEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments

Passed 88 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 82002
Democratic 3000
Republican 3000
Total 88002
% of votes cast 98%0%0%2%
How each member voted (90)
Member Party Vote
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cook — Yea
Bill — Yea
Tom — Yea
Evans — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Garrick — Yea
Charles — Yea
Gilmore — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Hall — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Hill — Yea
Fletcher — Yea
Fong — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bass — Yea
Beall — Yea
Coto — Yea
DeVore — Yea
Huber — Yea
Jeffries — Yea
Knight — Yea
Logue — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nava — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Norby — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
Audra — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Ruskin — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Tran — Yea
Villines — Yea
Adams — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Block — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Ma — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Silva — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Eng — Yea
Davis — Not Voting
Yamada — Yea
Furutani — Not Voting
Galgiani — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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Assembly 3rd Reading AB2229 Brownley By Pavley

Passed 33 Yea · 0 Nay · 6 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 30006
Democratic 2000
Republican 1000
Total 33006
% of votes cast 85%0%0%15%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Cedillo — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Runner — Yea
Florez — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Hollingsworth — Yea
Cogdill — Not Voting
Kehoe — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Price — Yea
Ashburn — Yea
Dutton — Yea
Romero — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Not Voting
Wiggins — Not Voting
Wolk — Yea
Wright — Yea
Aanestad — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Harman — Not Voting
Huff — Yea
Oropeza — Not Voting
Wyland — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
Correa — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Denham — Not Voting
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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AB 2229 BROWNLEY Assembly Third Reading

Passed 86 Yea · 0 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 81004
Democratic 3000
Republican 2001
Total 86005
% of votes cast 95%0%0%5%
How each member voted (91)
Member Party Vote
Hagman — Yea
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cook — Yea
Coto — Yea
Bill — Yea
Eng — Yea
Evans — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Furutani — Yea
Charles — Yea
Garrick — Yea
Gilmore — Yea
Hall — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Fletcher — Yea
Fong — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Beall — Yea
Blakeslee — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Tom — Not Voting
Audra — Not Voting
Harkey — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Jeffries — Yea
Knight — Yea
Logue — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nava — Yea
Norby — Yea
Ruskin — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Tran — Yea
Villines — Yea
Adams — Yea
Bass — Yea
Block — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huber — Yea
Lieu — Not Voting
Ma — Yea
Miller — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Silva — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Davis — Yea
DeVore — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Not Voting

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Do pass, to Consent Calendar.

Passed 17 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 16002
Democratic 1000
Total 17002
% of votes cast 89%0%0%11%
How each member voted (19)
Member Party Vote
Hall — Yea
Charles — Yea
De — Not Voting
Leon — Not Voting
Conway — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Coto — Yea
Miller — Yea
Norby — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Hill — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Davis — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended.

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Tom — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Hall — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Beall — Yea
Logue — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 2229 do?
Existing law authorizes members of a multidisciplinary personnel team engaged in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse to disclose and exchange information and writings to and with one another relating to any incidents of child abuse that may also be a part of a juvenile court record or otherwise designated as confidential under state law if the member of the team having that information or writing reasonably believes it is generally relevant to the prevention, identification, or treatment of child abuse. Under existing law, all discussions relative to the disclosure or exchange of this information during team meetings are confidential and testimony concerning those discussions is not admissible in any criminal, civil, or juvenile court proceeding. A multidisciplinary personnel team is defined for purposes of this provision to mean any team of 3 or more persons who are trained in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse, as specified. This bill would, until January 1, 2014, additionally authorize the disclosure and exchange of information to occur telephonically and electronically, for 30 days, or longer if documented good cause exists, following a report of suspected child abuse or neglect, if there is adequate verification of the identity of the multidisciplinary personnel who are involved in that disclosure or exchange of information. The bill would revise the definition of a multidisciplinary personnel team for purposes of this provision to mean any team of 2 or more persons created to investigate a report of suspected child abuse, as specified, who are trained in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse, as specified. The bill would require 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. Existing law provides that a county may establish a computerized database system within that county to allow provider agencies to share identifying information regarding families at risk for child abuse or neglect, for the purpose of forming multidisciplinary personnel teams for the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of child abuse. A multidisciplinary personnel team is defined for purposes of this provision to mean any team of 3 or more persons who are trained in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse, as specified. This bill would revise the definition of multidisciplinary personnel teams for purposes of this provision to additionally include any team of 2 or more persons who are trained in the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of child abuse, as specified. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 18961.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by this bill and AB 2322, to become operative only if this bill and AB 2322 are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is chaptered last.
Who sponsors AB 2229?
AB 2229 is sponsored by Brownley.
What is the current status of AB 2229?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2010. Enacted.
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