CA AB 922
Status unknownUniversity of California: employees, volunteers, and contractors: background checks.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Did CA AB 922 pass?
The current status of CA AB 922 is not known from the official record. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): In committee: Held under submission.
What is CA AB 922 about?
(1) Existing law requires a fingerprint-based criminal history information check that is required pursuant to any statute to be requested from the Department of Justice. When a government agency or other entity requests such a criminal history check for purposes of employment, licensing, or certification, existing law requires the Department of Justice to disseminate specified information in response to the request, including information regarding convictions and arrests for which the applicant is presently awaiting trial. The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes, including, among others, as may be necessary to ensure the security of its funds. This bill would expressly authorize the University of California to require background checks, to be completed by the Department of Justice as specified, during the final stages of the recruitment process for prospective staff employees, contractors, and volunteers. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide subsequent state or federal arrest or disposition notification to authorized entities to assist in, among other things, fulfilling employment, licensing, or certification duties. Existing law requires an entity, other than a law enforcement agency, as defined, to enter into a contract with the Department of Justice in order to receive notification of subsequent state or federal arrests or dispositions for licensing, employment, or certification purposes. This bill would require the University of California to immediately notify the Department of Justice to terminate the notification for an individual who is no longer in a position that permits such notification. The bill would require the University of California to verify, at least every 6 months, that each individual whose notification has not been terminated remains in a position with the University of California. The bill would require the University of California to immediately inform the Department of Justice if it receives an arrest notification for an unknown individual or for an individual whose notification requests have been terminated.
Who sponsors CA AB 922?
Hoover is the primary sponsor of CA AB 922.
Description
(1) Existing law requires a fingerprint-based criminal history information check that is required pursuant to any statute to be requested from the Department of Justice. When a government agency or other entity requests such a criminal history check for purposes of employment, licensing, or certification, existing law requires the Department of Justice to disseminate specified information in response to the request, including information regarding convictions and arrests for which the applicant is presently awaiting trial. The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes, including, among others, as may be necessary to ensure the security of its funds. This bill would expressly authorize the University of California to require background checks, to be completed by the Department of Justice as specified, during the final stages of the recruitment process for prospective staff employees, contractors, and volunteers. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide subsequent state or federal arrest or disposition notification to authorized entities to assist in, among other things, fulfilling employment, licensing, or certification duties. Existing law requires an entity, other than a law enforcement agency, as defined, to enter into a contract with the Department of Justice in order to receive notification of subsequent state or federal arrests or dispositions for licensing, employment, or certification purposes. This bill would require the University of California to immediately notify the Department of Justice to terminate the notification for an individual who is no longer in a position that permits such notification. The bill would require the University of California to verify, at least every 6 months, that each individual whose notification has not been terminated remains in a position with the University of California. The bill would require the University of California to immediately inform the Department of Justice if it receives an arrest notification for an unknown individual or for an individual whose notification requests have been terminated.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-30
- Latest action
- 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Hooverauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.
2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-07-09
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-08
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8).
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2025-06-18
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-06-04
Referred to Coms. on ED. and PUB. S.
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2025-05-23
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-23
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1654.)
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2025-05-19
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-19
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1616.)
2025-05-15
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-14
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
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2025-05-05
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-01
Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-30
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29).
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2025-04-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-03-10
Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and PUB. S.
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2025-02-20
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2025-02-19
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
2025-04-08 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- DeMaio: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Fong: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Patel: yes
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-29 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Mark González: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Alanis: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Hart: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Ta: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
AB 922 Hoover Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-23 · pass · 70-0
Member-level votes (79)
- DeMaio: yes
- Davies: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Solache: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hart: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Papan: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bains: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Caloza: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Bryan: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Nguyen: other
- Lee: other
- Sanchez: other
- Chen: other
- Kalra: other
- Wicks: other
- Soria: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
2025-06-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Choi: yes
- Laird: yes
- Limón: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Pérez: yes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-08 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (6)
- Arreguín: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wiener: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
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