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 03/12/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/03/26 - Introduced

 AB-1688 Child abuse or neglect: reporting.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/17/2026 09:00 PM

AB1688:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 17, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 12, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1688

Introduced by Assembly Member Carrillo
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Gipson)

February 03, 2026

 An act to amend Section 11166.1 of the Penal Code, relating to child abuse or neglect.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1688, as amended, Carrillo.
 Child abuse or neglect: reporting.

Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, establishes procedures for the reporting and investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect. Existing law requires certain professionals, including specified health practitioners and social workers, known as “mandated reporters,” to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. Existing law requires an employee of those agencies, in certain circumstances, to send or have sent, within 36 hours, a copy of a report made pursuant to these provisions to the attorney who represents the child, who is the subject of the report, in dependency court. Existing law requires the agency to maintain a copy of the written report and provide all information requested by the attorney for the child or the child’s guardian ad litem within 30 days of
 the request.

This

If an incident occurs in an out-of-home placement, this bill would require an employee of those agencies to additionally a county welfare agency to send notice of the report to the attorney who represents a parent or legal guardian of the child, as specified. Under the bill, child in dependency court. The
 bill would make that requirement would not apply
 inapplicable to a parent whose parental rights have been terminated. The bill would prohibit the notice from disclosing the substance of the report, as specified. The If the suspected abuse or neglect occurred in a placement, the bill would require an employee of the a county welfare agency to send a copy of the report to all attorneys who represent children a child with an open dependency case in that placement if the suspected abuse or neglect occurred in a
 placement, as provided. By expanding the duties of local agencies that receive reports alleging abuse or neglect of children, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 11166.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

11166.1.

 (a) (1) When an agency receives a report pursuant to Section 11166 that contains either of the following, it shall, within 24 hours, notify the licensing office with jurisdiction over the facility:

(A) A report of abuse alleged to have occurred in facilities a facility licensed to care for children by the State Department of Social Services.

(B) A report of the death of a child who was, at the time of death, living at, enrolled in, or
 regularly attending a facility licensed to care for children by the State Department of Social Services, Services unless the circumstances of the child’s death are clearly unrelated to the child’s care at the facility.

(2) The agency shall send the licensing agency a copy of its investigation and any other pertinent materials.

(b) (1) Any An employee of an agency specified in Section 11165.9 who has knowledge of, or observes in
 their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, a child in protective custody whom the employee knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect shall, within 36 hours, send or have sent to the attorney who represents the child in dependency court, a copy of the report p