AB 652, as introduced, Ammiano. Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act: homeless children.
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 provide that the fact that a child is homeless or is classified as an unaccompanied minor is not, in and of itself, a sufficient basis for reporting child abuse or neglect.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 11165.15 is added to the Penal Code, to
2read:
For the purposes of this article, the fact that a child
4is homeless or is classified as an unaccompanied minor, as defined
5in Section 11434a of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless
P2 1Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11301 et seq.), is not, in and of
2itself, a sufficient basis for reporting child abuse or neglect.
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