BILL NUMBER: AB 1979	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bass

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2006

   An act to amend Section 1522.03 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to community care facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1979, as introduced, Bass  Community care facilities: criminal
record information: fees.
   Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act,
provides for the licensure and regulation of community care
facilities by the State Department of Social Services.
   Existing law requires that, before issuing any of specified
documents allowing for the operation or management of a community
care facility, the department or other approving authority secure
from an appropriate law enforcement agency a criminal record with
respect to the applicant or certain other persons, except as
specified. Existing law requires the submission of the fingerprints
of an applicant or other person who is not otherwise exempted from
fingerprinting to the Department of Justice for the purpose of
providing criminal record information, and requires the Department of
Justice to provide notice of the criminal record information within
14 days of receiving the fingerprints. Existing law allows the
Department of Justice to charge a fee sufficient to cover the cost of
providing these services.
   This bill would prohibit the Department of Justice from charging a
fee for these services to any nonprofit organization that is
approved by the state, or by a city or county, to provide mentoring
services for children in foster care.
   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 1522.03 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1522.03.  The Department of Justice may charge a fee sufficient to
cover its cost in providing services in accordance with Section 1522
to comply with the 14-day requirement for provision to the
department of the criminal record information, as contained in
subdivision (c) of Section 1522.  However, the Department of
Justice shall not charge a fee for these services to any nonprofit
organization that is approved by the state, or by a city, county, or
city and county, to provide   mentoring services for
children in foster care   .