Reporting Abuse, Abandonment, and Neglect
Summary
Reporting Abuse, Abandonment, and Neglect; Relocating existing provisions relating to the central abuse hotline of the Department of Children and Families; revising when a person is required to report to the central abuse hotline; providing penalties for the failure to report known or suspected child abuse, abandonment, or neglect; providing responsibilities for child protective investigators relating to animal abuse and neglect; requiring the Education Practices Commission to suspend the educator certificate of certain personnel and administrators for failing to report known or suspected child abuse, etc.
Bill status
died
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 14, 2020
Last action Mar 14, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Mar 6, 2020
How they voted
20–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 21
Mar 6, 2020
D
Democratic12
100% Yea
R
Republican9
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
7
Committee
7
Mar 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
upper
Feb 19, 2020
Upper · Passed
Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
upper
Feb 14, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/19/20, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Upper · Passed
Favorable by Education; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
upper
Jan 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Education, 02/03/20, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
upper
Jan 14, 2020
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Nov 18, 2019
Committee
Referred to Education; Rules
upper
Oct 22, 2019
Upper · Passed
Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
upper
Oct 14, 2019
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 10/22/19, 11:00 am, 301 Senate Building
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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