HB604 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Laura HallRepresentative
Democrat
Co-Sponsors: Becky Nordgren Dan Williams Terri Collins K.L. Brown Allen Treadaway Joe Faust Dickie Drake Mike Ball Patricia Todd Thomas Jackson Juandalynn Givan
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: Child abuse, law enforcement agencies, individuals mandated to report child abuse to report directly to a duly constituted authority, Sec. 26-14-3 am'd
Description: Under existing law, all hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, doctors, physicians, surgeons, medical examiners, coroners, dentists, osteopaths, optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, nurses, school teachers and officials, peace officers, law enforcement officials, pharmacists, social workers, day care workers or employees, mental health professionals, members of the clergy as defined in Rule 505 of the Alabama Rules of Evidence, or any other person called upon to render aid or medical assistance to any child, when the child is known or suspected to be a victim of child abuse or neglect, are required to report, or cause a report to be made of the same, to a duly constituted authority.
This bill would provide that anyone with a duty to report known or suspected child abuse shall directly report to a duly constituted authority.
Subjects: Child Abuse

Indefinitely Postponed

Children and Senior Advocacy first Substitute Offered

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Children and Senior Advocacy