Bill Text: CA AB1027 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1027 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Youth sports: criminal background checks.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1027 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1027-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1027	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla
   (Principal coauthor: Senator DeSaulnier)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Campos, Dickinson, Frazier,
Gray, Lowenthal, Medina, Mitchell, Perea, and Quirk-Silva)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 11105.07 to the Penal Code, relating to
criminal history.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1027, as introduced, Bonilla. Youth sports: criminal background
checks.
   Existing law authorizes specified entities to receive state
summary criminal history information from the Department of Justice.
Existing law also requires mandated reporters, as defined, to report
child abuse and neglect to local law enforcement.
   This bill would require the department to provide state summary
criminal history information to the director of a community youth
athletics program, or his or her designee, for the purposes of
screening volunteers or employees who are left alone with minors and
would prohibit a person from having access to minors as an employee
or volunteer if the person has been convicted of or pled guilty or
nolo contendere to, a crime of child abuse, sexual abuse, or domestic
violence. The bill would provide that completing the background
check does not limit the liability of a mandated reporter.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 11105.07 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   11105.07.  (a) In addition to furnishing state summary criminal
history information to the persons and entities set forth in Section
11105 and subject to the requirements and conditions set forth in
that section, the Attorney General shall furnish state summary
criminal history information to the director of a community youth
athletics program, or his or her designee, for the purposes of
screening any volunteer or employee who is left alone with minors
under 18 years of age. No recipient may disclose the contents on the
state summary criminal history information or provide copies of
information. Information received shall be stored in a locked file,
separate from other files, and shall only be accessible to the
custodian of records.
   (b) A person may not have access to minors under 18 years of age
as a volunteer or employee if he or she has been convicted of, or
pled guilty or nolo contendere to, a crime of child abuse, sexual
abuse, or domestic violence. Violation of this subdivision is not a
crime.
   (c) This section does not remove or limit the liability of a
mandated reporter pursuant to Section 11166.