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Bill	School employees: contracts: sole proprietors: criminal background checks.	Existing law requires an employee of an entity that has a contract with a school district to provide janitorial, administrative, grounds and landscape maintenance, transportation, and food services for the school, if that employee may have contact with pupils, to submit or have submitted his or her fingerprints to the Department of Justice, which is required to ascertain whether that individual has been arrested or convicted of a crime and to notify the employer designated by the individual of that fact. Existing law also authorizes a school district, on a case-by-case basis as specified, to require an entity providing schoolsite services other than those listed above to submit or have submitted its employee's fingerprints. The Department of Justice is authorized to forward a copy of the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to verify the record of previous arrests or convictions of the applicant. The Department of Justice is required to review the criminal record summary it obtains from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and notify the employer only as to whether or not an applicant has any convictions or arrests pending adjudication for offenses which, if committed in California, would have been punishable as a violent or serious felony and is required to provide written notification to the contract employer only concerning whether an applicant for employment has any conviction or arrest pending final adjudication for any of those crimes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 949	California AB 949 (20172018)	bill	School employees: contracts: sole proprietors: criminal background checks.	enacted	Gipson	4	17	5	2017-02-16	2017-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/2e556b4f-3583-49cb-945d-46b932429fc5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB949	b4fdd5b9fc5e129da99e9e28a566707ae07405ae5f74a84f45bd7827c56944a3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 949 (20172018) — School employees: contracts: sole proprietors: criminal background checks.

Existing law requires an employee of an entity that has a contract with a school district to provide janitorial, administrative, grounds and landscape maintenance, transportation, and food services for the school, if that employee may have contact with pupils, to submit or have submitted his or her fingerprints to the Department of Justice, which is required to ascertain whether that individual has been arrested or convicted of a crime and to notify the employer designated by the individual of that fact. Existing law also authorizes a school district, on a case-by-case basis as specified, to require an entity providing schoolsite services other than those listed above to submit or have submitted its employee's fingerprints. The Department of Justice is authorized to forward a copy of the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to verify the record of previous arrests or convictions of the applicant. The Department of Justice is required to review the criminal record summary it obtains from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and notify the employer only as to whether or not an applicant has any convictions or arrests pending adjudication for offenses which, if committed in California, would have been punishable as a violent or serious felony and is required to provide written notification to the contract employer only concerning whether an applicant for employment has any conviction or arrest pending final adjudication for any of those crimes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/21/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB949 (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/06/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 949 GIPSON Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB949 — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1145.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-10 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-06-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2017-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1843.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2017-07-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:40 p.m.
• 2017-07-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-07-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 84, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2e556b4f-3583-49cb-945d-46b932429fc5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).