Reporting of child abuse or neglect. Provides that an individual's duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect is may only be delegated to another person if certain conditions are met. Requires that if a report of suspected child abuse or neglect alleges that a staff member, youth coach, or volunteer of an institution, school, facility, organization, or agency is the abuser, local law enforcement shall investigate to determine whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew that the alleged abuse was happening and failed to report the alleged abuse. Allows law enforcement to consider certain facts when determining whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew about the alleged abuse. Increases the penalty for failure by a member of the staff of a public or private institution, school, facility, organization, or agency to report suspected child abuse or neglect to a Class A misdemeanor (instead of a Class B misdemeanor, under current law), and increases the penalty to a Level 6 felony if the person has a prior conviction for failure to report abuse or neglect. Makes conforming changes.
Authored by Representative Cash | Coauthored by Representative Olthoff |
2025-02-11 | House | House - Third reading | PASS |
Title | Description | Date | View |
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Fiscal Note | Fiscal Note #3: House Comm Sub | 2025-02-11 | Click To View |
Fiscal Note | Fiscal Note #2: House Comm Sub | 2025-02-10 | Click To View |
Fiscal Note | Fiscal Note #1: House Comm Sub | 2025-02-06 | Click To View |
Committee Report | House Committee Report | 2025-02-05 | Click To View |
Vote Sheet | Vote Sheet February 05, 2025 | 2025-02-05 | Click To View |
Fiscal Note | Fiscal Note #1: House Comm Sub | 2025-01-30 | Click To View |
Committee Report | House Committee Report | 2025-01-29 | Click To View |
Vote Sheet | Vote Sheet January 29, 2025 | 2025-01-29 | Click To View |
Fiscal Note | Fiscal Note #1: Introduced | 2025-01-13 | Click To View |
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2025-02-12 | House | Referred to the Senate |
2025-02-11 | House | Cosponsor: Senator Dernulc |
2025-02-11 | House | Senate sponsors: Senators Goode, Crider, Carrasco |
2025-02-11 | House | Third reading: passed; Roll Call 138: yeas 91, nays 0 |
2025-02-11 | House | Representatives Sweet and Garcia Wilburn added as coauthors |
2025-02-10 | House | Second reading: ordered engrossed |
2025-02-06 | House | Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
2025-01-30 | House | Recommitted to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code pursuant to House Rule 126.3 |
2025-01-30 | House | Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
2025-01-13 | House | First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs |
2025-01-13 | House | Authored by Representative Cash |
2025-01-13 | House | Coauthored by Representative Olthoff |