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Assembly committee advances bill allowing provisional hires for foster-care residential staff
Summary
The Assembly Human Services Committee voted unanimously to pass AB 276 to allow children's residential agencies to provisionally hire out-of-state candidates who have cleared DOJ, FBI and California Child Abuse Central Index checks, while awaiting out-of-state registry results, with restrictions on unsupervised contact.
The California State Assembly Human Services Committee on Monday voted to move AB 276 to the Assembly Public Safety Committee after hearing testimony that lengthy out-of-state background checks are delaying hiring at children's residential programs.
Assemblymember Bennett, the bill's author, told the committee that "AB 276 provides a practical and urgently needed solution to a staffing crisis at agencies who serve foster youth." He said the measure would allow agencies to provisionally hire qualified employees while they await out-of-state child abuse registry results, but only after those employees have cleared the Department of Justice, the FBI and…
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