CA AB 741
enactedDepartment of Justice: child abuse reporting.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 741 pass?
Yes. CA AB 741 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-11. Latest recorded action (2025-10-11): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 619, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 741 about?
Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain an index of all reports of child abuse and severe neglect submitted by an agency mandated to make those reports. Existing law requires the department to make relevant information contained in the index available to specified law enforcement agencies, county welfare departments, and other agencies that are conducting a child abuse investigation. Existing law authorizes a designated Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program to submit fingerprint images and related information of employment and volunteer candidates to the department for the purpose of obtaining information as to the existence and nature of a record of a child abuse investigation contained in the Child Abuse Central Index, state- or federal-level convictions, or state- or federal-level arrests for which the department establishes that the applicant was released on bail or on their own recognizance pending trial. Existing law requires the department to charge a fee sufficient to cover the cost of processing the requests for federal-level criminal offender record information and prohibits the department from charging a fee for state-level criminal offender record information. This bill would instead require a CASA program to submit fingerprint images and related information of employment and volunteer candidates to the department for the purpose of conducting a state and federal criminal history background check. The bill would require the department to monitor the Child Abuse Central Index and notify the CASA program if a record of a child abuse investigation involving a CASA employee or volunteer is added to that index. The bill would impose notification and review requirements on a CASA program to request that the department remove the notification for an individual who is no longer employed by or volunteering with the CASA program, as specified. The bill would require the department to terminate notification for an individual upon receipt of that request. The bill would authorize the department to increase its fee for a CASA employment and volunteer candidate to cover the cost of processing those subsequent notifications.
Who sponsors CA AB 741?
Ransom is the primary sponsor of CA AB 741.
Description
Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain an index of all reports of child abuse and severe neglect submitted by an agency mandated to make those reports. Existing law requires the department to make relevant information contained in the index available to specified law enforcement agencies, county welfare departments, and other agencies that are conducting a child abuse investigation. Existing law authorizes a designated Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program to submit fingerprint images and related information of employment and volunteer candidates to the department for the purpose of obtaining information as to the existence and nature of a record of a child abuse investigation contained in the Child Abuse Central Index, state- or federal-level convictions, or state- or federal-level arrests for which the department establishes that the applicant was released on bail or on their own recognizance pending trial. Existing law requires the department to charge a fee sufficient to cover the cost of processing the requests for federal-level criminal offender record information and prohibits the department from charging a fee for state-level criminal offender record information. This bill would instead require a CASA program to submit fingerprint images and related information of employment and volunteer candidates to the department for the purpose of conducting a state and federal criminal history background check. The bill would require the department to monitor the Child Abuse Central Index and notify the CASA program if a record of a child abuse investigation involving a CASA employee or volunteer is added to that index. The bill would impose notification and review requirements on a CASA program to request that the department remove the notification for an individual who is no longer employed by or volunteering with the CASA program, as specified. The bill would require the department to terminate notification for an individual upon receipt of that request. The bill would authorize the department to increase its fee for a CASA employment and volunteer candidate to cover the cost of processing those subsequent notifications.
- Introduced
- 2025-06-10
- Latest action
- 2025-10-11 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 619, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Ransomauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-18
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-19
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2025-03-03
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-03-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-09
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9).
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2025-04-10
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-04-24
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1279.)
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2025-04-24
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-07
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-06-10
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10).
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2025-06-11
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-06-23
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-06-24
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-06-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1809.).
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2025-06-27
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-06-30
Ordered to the Senate.
2025-06-30
In Senate. Held at Desk.
2025-07-14
Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly.
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2025-07-14
Ordered to third reading.
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2025-07-14
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-07-15
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-11
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2884.).
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2025-09-12
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-13
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3454.).
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2025-09-13
Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
2025-09-24
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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2025-10-11
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-11
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 619, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-03-25 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Harabedian: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Haney: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lackey: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-04-09 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Sanchez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Fong: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pellerin: other
AB 741 Ransom Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-04-24 · pass · 75-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Ellis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ward: yes
- Bains: yes
- Berman: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Davies: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Krell: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Patel: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Flora: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Solache: yes
- Alanis: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gallagher: other
- Chen: other
- Lackey: other
- Harabedian: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-10 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (6)
- Pérez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Wiener: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-06-27 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Ashby: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Laird: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Limón: yes
- Choi: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Niello: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Becker: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Allen: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Stern: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: other
- Reyes: other
3rd Reading AB741 Ransom By Ashby
2025-09-11 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Valladares: yes
- Umberg: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Reyes: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Allen: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Choi: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Becker: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wahab: yes
AB 741 Ransom Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-13 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Chen: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Bains: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lee: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ward: yes
- Fong: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- McKinnor: other
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