Presence at care facilities: conviction of crimes.

Existing law prohibits the State Department of Social Services from authorizing individuals who have been convicted of certain crimes from working or otherwise being present at a community care facility, a residential care facility for persons with a chronic, life-threatening illness, a residential care facility for the elderly, or a child day care facility. The act requires the department to perform criminal background investigations of individuals as part of its licensing and regulatory oversight of these facilities. This bill would enumerate additional crimes that prohibit the department from authorizing an individual from working or otherwise being present at these facilities, including, among other crimes, procuring another person for the purpose of prostitution. The bill would additionally require the department, with regard to licensing and regulating community care facilities, to examine and review whether the inclusion of additional specified crimes in those provisions would be appropriate, and to report its findings to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2022.