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 01/08/25 - Introduced

 AB-160 Background checks.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/08/2025 06:56 PM

AB160:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 September 08, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 160

Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel Committee on Budget (Assembly Members Gabriel (Chair), Addis, Ahrens, Alvarez, Bennett, Bonta, Connolly, Fong, Haney, Hart, Jackson, Lee, Muratsuchi, Ortega, Patel, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Rogers, Schiavo, Schultz, Sharp-Collins, Solache, Ward, and Wilson)

January 08, 2025

An act relating to the Budget Act of 2025. An act to amend Sections 2064.5, 2082, 2111, 2112, 2113, 2125, 2168.2, 3575, and 19239 of, and to add Sections 2042, 2513.5, 2953.1, 2960.01, 2960.02, 2999.106, 4982.01, 4989.55, 4992.31, 4999.92, 7503.05, and 7525.3 to, the Business and Professions Code, to add Sections 33113.5, 59009, 59105, 59206, 66611, and 92612.3 to the Education Code, to repeal and add Section 1030 of the Government Code, to add Section 733.5 to the Harbors and Navigation Code, to add Sections 53.5 and 90.1 to the Military and Veterans Code, and to amend Section 11105 of, and to add Sections 11105.001, 11105.002, 11105.05, 11105.2, 11107.6, and 26330 to, the Penal Code, relating to background checks, and making an appropriation therefor,
 to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 160, as amended, Committee on Budget.
 Budget Act of 2025. Background checks.

(1) Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons. Existing law establishes the Osteopathic Medical Board of California and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of osteopathic physicians and surgeons consistent with the Osteopathic Act, as specified. 

This bill would require those boards to require each applicant to furnish a full set of fingerprints for purposes of conducting criminal history record checks. The bill would require the board to submit those fingerprint images and related information to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and would
 require the DOJ to charge a fee for those costs, as prescribed.

Existing law requires medical school graduates, within 180 days after beginning a board-approved postgraduate program, to obtain a physician’s and surgeon’s postgraduate training license. Existing law requires each application to include either fingerprint cards or a copy of a completed Live Scan form from the applicant in order to establish the identity of the applicant and whether the applicant has a criminal conviction, in accordance with specified provisions. 

This bill would delete the above provisions on using that information in order to establish the applicant’s identity and criminal conviction records. The bill would instead require those boards to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information required by the DOJ of all applicants to determine whether the applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require
 the DOJ to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described.

Existing law requires each application for a medical license to contain specified information including either fingerprint cards or a copy of a completed Live Scan form from the applicant in order to establish the applicant’s identity and criminal conviction records.

This bill would delete the above provisions on using that information in order to establish the applicant’s identity and criminal conviction records. The bill would instead require those boards to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information required by the DOJ of all applicants to determine whether the applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described.

Existing law establishes a process for physicians who are not citizens but who meet
 certain postgraduate requirements to participate in professional activities of approved medical schools or academic medical centers, subject to completing an application process and submitting the requisite fees established by t