Bill Text: CA AB465 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Youth sports: criminal background checks.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 146, Statutes of 2013. [AB465 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB465-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 465	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maienschein

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2013

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 465, as introduced, Maienschein. 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 volunteer or hired coaches and would prohibit a person from
having access to minors as a coach or volunteer until the community
youth athletics program has received and reviewed the state summary
criminal history information. The bill would state that performing
the required background check does not remove or 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 volunteer or hired coaches. 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 as a volunteer or hired
coach until the community youth athletics program has received and
reviewed the state summary criminal history information relating to
that person. Violation of this subdivision is not a crime.
   (c) Compliance with this section does not remove or limit the
liability of a mandated reporter pursuant to Section 11166.