AB 2649 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Youth service organizations: parent volunteers.

Summary
Existing law requires a youth service organization to develop and implement child abuse prevention policies to, among other requirements, ensure reporting of suspected incidents of child abuse to persons or entities outside of the organization, including reporting required by mandated reporters, as prescribed. Existing law requires an administrator, employee, or regular volunteer of a youth service organization to complete training in child abuse and neglect notification and training in child abuse and neglect reporting, as specified. Existing law requires an administrator, employee, or regular volunteer of a youth service organization to undergo a background check, as prescribed. This bill would specify that a parent volunteer, as defined, is not a regular volunteer, would exclude a parent volunteer from the above-described training requirements, and would require a parent volunteer to undergo a background check.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2026
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 20, 2026 Last action Apr 14, 2026
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02/20/26 - Introduced AB2649 · 1 edit
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No substantive policy changes were made between these two versions of AB 2649. The differences are entirely in document formatting and presentation: the first version uses a clean legislative print format with line numbers, while the second version embeds the same bill text within a web page layout that includes navigation menus, search boxes, and other interface elements.
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The bill text was reformatted from a traditional legislative document layout (with line numbers and column formatting) into a web page presentation that includes site navigation, search tools, and metadata fields. The underlying legal content of Section 18975 is identical in both versions.

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Actions timeline

Total actions
4
Key actions
2
Committee
3
Apr 14, 2026
Lower · Passed
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
lower
Mar 16, 2026
Committee
Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and PUB. S.
lower
Feb 21, 2026
Lower · Passed
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Buffy Wicks
DDemocratic
CA
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