California Business and Professions Code 6001.5 – (a) The State Bar of California shall require that all employees …
(a) The State Bar of California shall require that all employees and prospective employees, and may require volunteers, contractors, and subcontractors, to submit fingerprints to the Department of Justice and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in order to establish identity and to determine whether the individual has a record of criminal conviction in this state or in other states, including through a national criminal history check.
(b) The State Bar shall submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Department of Justice for all employees, prospective employees, volunteers, contractors, and subcontractors, pursuant to subdivision (u) of § 11105 of the Penal Code. The Department of Justice shall provide a state or federal level response pursuant to subdivision (p) of § 11105 of the Penal Code.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 6001.5
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15
(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 697, Sec. 4. (SB 40) Effective January 1, 2024.)