California Government Code

§ 1041

GOV § 1041 Effective Jan 1, 2006Div. 4 · Title 1 · Ch. 1 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)(1) The Department of Managed Health Care may require fingerprint images and associated information from a prospective employee whose duties would include access to medical information.

(2)The department shall require that any services contract or interagency agreement that may include review of medical information for compliance with the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 1340) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code), and entered into, renewed, or amended after January 1, 2006, shall include a provision requiring the contractor to agree to permit the department to run criminal background checks on its employees, contractors, agents, or subcontractors that will have access to this information as part of their contract with the department.

(b)The fingerprint images and associated information of a prospective employee, contractor, agent, subcontractor, or employee of a contractor of the Department of Managed Health Care whose duties include or would include access to the information specified in subdivision (a), or any person who assumes those duties, may be furnished to the Department of Justice for the purpose of obtaining information as to the existence and nature of a record of state or federal level convictions and state or federal level arrests for which the Department of Justice establishes that the applicant was released on bail or on his or her own recognizance pending trial. Requests for federal level criminal offender record information, received by the Department of Justice, pursuant to this section, shall be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by the Department of Justice.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 339, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006.