HB 485

Abstract

School boards; employee criminal history recordschecks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifiesthat certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-personor remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licensed,provisionally licensed, or unlicensed are subject to the requirements in existing law to undergo a criminal history records check anda search of the registry of founded complaints of child abuse andneglect and to disclose certain criminal history information at theemployment application stage and upon arrest. The bill provides thatin the event that any school board fails or refuses to perform itsduty to require any employee to undergo a criminal history recordscheck as set forth in relevant law, each individual member of suchboard is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and his position on suchschool board shall be deemed vacant.