Roy Ashburn
- Republican
Author
Existing law requires the counties, with the assistance of the State Department of Social Services, to provide child welfare services, including emergency response, foster care placement, adoption services, and family maintenance and reunification. Under existing law, counties may secure from the Department of Justice a criminal record for all county welfare department employees who have frequent and routine contact with children, if the employees provide services to children who are alleged victims of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. If the employee has been convicted of a crime, other than a minor traffic violation, the county welfare director must determine whether there is substantial and convincing evidence to support a reasonable belief that the employee is of good character. Existing law provides specified crimes for which the employee must be suspended from duties involving frequent and routine contact with children. This bill would require a county, if an applicant is otherwise qualified for the position and the county is likely to make an offer of employment either to a new applicant or transferring a current employee, for a position with frequent and routine contact with children, if the employee will provide services to children who are alleged victims of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, to secure from the Department of Justice a criminal record to determine if the person has ever been convicted of specified crimes. The bill would prohibit the county from employing the person under prescribed circumstances. The bill would allow the county to require the person to pay any fees charged by the Department of Justice for the processing of the criminal history and an additional fee in an amount not more than the amount sufficient to cover the costs to the county of administering the criminal record checks. This bill would exclude a person who has obtained a certificate of rehabilitation, or with respect to whom the accusation or information has been dismissed, from being considered convicted for purposes of the bill. This bill would also permit a county to obtain fingerprints from specified current employees for the purpose of obtaining a criminal record from the Department of Justice. The bill would require the county to terminate or suspend from any duties involving frequent and routine contact with children an employee whose criminal record includes conviction for specified crimes. Because this bill would require the counties to take additional steps to hire certain employees, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
From committee without further action.
From Assembly without further action.
Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
(Heard in committee on July 7.)
Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 2375.)
Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.)
(Heard in committee on June 30.)
Re-referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and PUB. S.
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
To Coms. on PUB. S. and HUM. S.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1187.) To Assembly.
Read second time. Amended. To third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 1074.)
(Suspense - for vote only.)
Set for hearing May 28.
Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 11.
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 701.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
Set for hearing April 28.
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 588.) Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
Set for hearing April 21.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Re-referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HUMAN S.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
To Com. on RLS.
Read first time.
From print. May be acted upon on or after March 30.
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB774 | HTML |
| 02/27/09 - Introduced | |
| 04/02/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/14/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/27/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/28/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/06/09 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/14/09 - Amended Assembly |
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