AB 1717

Bill Subjects

Abstract

(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to notify the local director of social services and the probation officer of the county in which a community care facility is located whenever the license, registration, or special permit issued to the community care facility is suspended, revoked, temporarily suspended, forfeited, canceled, or expired. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to notify a school district if it discovers that an individual who is an applicant for employment for a position requiring certification qualifications has been convicted of specified offenses and requires a school district employer to request subsequent arrest service from the Department of Justice, as specified. This bill would require a school district, as part of the hiring process, to request an applicant for a classified or certificated position, including a temporary or substitute position, to provide, in writing, information regarding a currently or previously held license, registration, or special permit issued under provisions governing community care facilities and regarding current or prior employment in a licensed community care facility. The bill would require an employee of a school district to provide similar information by July 1, 2013. The bill would require an employee of a school district to notify the school district, as provided, if the employee obtains a license, registration, or special permit issued under provisions governing community care facilities or is hired to work in a licensed community care facility. The bill would require a school district that receives information that an applicant for employment or an employee currently holds or previously held such a license, registration, or special permit or is currently employed or was previously employed in a licensed community care facility to submit the applicant's or employee's name, birth date, and driver's license or Department of Motor Vehicles identification number to the State Department of Social Services. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to include the contact information for the employing school district in the record of an individual holding a license, registration, or special permit and in the record of the employee of a community care facility and would require a school district employee to update that information at least annually. If the individual's license, registration, or special permit is revoked, suspended, forfeited, canceled, or surrendered on the grounds that the holder engaged in conduct inimical to the health, morals, welfare, or safety of an individual either residing in or receiving services from the community care facility or has an exclusion on those grounds, the bill would require the State Department of Social Services to notify the employing school district within 10 days of receipt of that information or within 10 days of the revocation, suspension, forfeiture, cancellation, surrender, or exclusion, whichever is applicable. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to notify a school district when an employee of the school district is granted a license, registration, or special permit issued under provisions governing community care facilities or is granted authorization to be employed in a community care facility licensed by the department. The bill would require the school district to notify the State Department of Social Services if an employee of a school district who holds a license, registration, or special permit for a community care facility or is employed in a licensed community care facility is dismissed on the basis of endangering the safety of a pupil. To the extent that these requirements would operate to impose new duties on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.