AB 2777: Transportation network company: employment: convictions and arrests.

(1)Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to provide state summary criminal information history and subsequent arrest notification services to employers for employees that perform specific types of duties and services. A person authorized to receive this criminal record information who knowingly furnishes that information to a person who is not authorized by law to receive that information is guilty of a misdemeanor.

This bill would require the Department of Justice to provide, at the request of a transportation network company, as defined, state summary criminal information history and subsequent arrest notification services for an individual who is employed, retained, contracted, or otherwise compensated to perform services coordinated by the transportation network company. The bill would further require the department to charge a transportation network company a fee sufficient to cover the cost of processing a request made pursuant to this provision. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize a transportation network company to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the department of all persons intended for employment, employed, retained, contracted, or otherwise compensated to perform or coordinate services for the purposes of obtaining information as to the existence and content of a record of state convictions and state arrests, as specified. The bill also would require the department to provide state criminal history information in response to the transportation network company, would require the transportation network company to request from the department subsequent notification service for persons for whom fingerprint images and related information are submitted, and would require the department to charge a fee to cover the cost of processing a request under these provisions. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(2)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.