CA SB 152
Title: Background checks and fingerprinting: state employment, licensing, and contracting.
Author: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Summary
SB 152, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Background checks and fingerprinting: state employment, licensing, and contracting. (1) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and other prescribed entities, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to transmit fingerprint images and related information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining a federal criminal history information check pursuant to a referencing statute. Existing law requires the department to review the information returned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to compile and disseminate a response or a fitness determination to the agency or entity identified in the referencing statute.This bill would require the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, the State Department of State Hospitals, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, the California Horse Racing Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Department of Real Estate, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department of General Services, the California Conservation Corps, the Treasurer’s office, and the Controller’s office to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Department of Justice for specified individuals, including employees, prospective employees, and contractors, as applicable.This bill would also require the State Department of Public Health to require an applicant for a human prescription drug manufacturing license to submit fingerprint images, and related information as required, to the Department of Justice.The bill would require the Department of Justice to provide a state- or federal-level response, as specified.This bill would require the Department of Real Estate and the Department of Housing and Community Development to require certain services contracts, interagency agreements, or public entity agreements to include a provision requiring the contractor to agree to perform criminal background checks on its employees and subcontractors who will have access to specified information.(2) Existing law establishes the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, headed by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation. Under existing law, the department has charge of the execution of specified laws relating to various financial institutions and financial services, including banks, trust companies, credit unions, finance lenders, and residential mortgage lenders. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to local, state, or federal law enforcement agencies fingerprints taken of specified individuals, including, among others, an applicant for employment with the department.This bill would require the department to require fingerprint images from any department employee, prospective employee or applicant seeking employment within the department, contractor, subcontractor, volunteer, or vendor who may have access to criminal offender record information. The bill would require the Department of Justice to forward a request for national-level criminal offender record information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and compile and disseminate the information returned, as specified.(3) Existing law requires the Department of FISCal to require fingerprint images and associated information from any employee, prospective employee, contractor, subcontractor, volunteer, vendor, or partner agency employee whose duties include, or would include, having access to confidential or sensitive information or data on the network or computing infrastructure, as provided.This bill would instead require the Department of FISCal to require fingerprint images and associated related inf
Status
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 198, Statutes of 2023.
Bill Documents
CA SB 152 - 09/13/23 - Enrolled
09/13/23 - CA SB 152 (09/13/23 - Enrolled)
CA SB 152 - 09/13/23 - Chaptered
09/13/23 - CA SB 152 (09/13/23 - Chaptered)
CA SB 152 - 08/31/23 - Amended Assembly
08/31/23 - CA SB 152 (08/31/23 - Amended Assembly)
CA SB 152 - 08/28/23 - Amended Assembly
08/28/23 - CA SB 152 (08/28/23 - Amended Assembly)
CA SB 152 - 01/18/23 - Introduced
01/18/23 - CA SB 152 (01/18/23 - Introduced)