Youth service organizations: parent volunteers.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not provide details on how background checks are conducted or what happens if issues arise from these checks.

Parent Volunteers in Youth Service Organizations

This law changes how youth service organizations treat parent volunteers by excluding them from certain training requirements but still requiring background checks.

What This Bill Does

• Defines a 'parent volunteer' as someone who helps out at a youth service organization because they are the parent of a child in that organization.
• Excludes parent volunteers from completing training on how to report child abuse and neglect, which is required for regular volunteers.
• Requires background checks for parent volunteers.

Who It Names or Affects

• Youth service organizations
• Parent volunteers

Terms To Know

parent volunteer

A person who helps out at a youth service organization because they are the parent of a child in that organization.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a background issue is found for a parent volunteer.
• It's unclear how this change will affect the safety and operations of youth service organizations.

Official Summary Text

AB 2649, as introduced, Wicks.
Youth service organizations: parent volunteers.
Existing law requires a youth service organization to develop and implement child abuse prevention policies to, among other requirements, ensure reporting of suspected incidents of child abuse to persons or entities outside of the organization, including reporting required by mandated reporters, as prescribed. Existing law requires an administrator, employee, or regular volunteer of a youth service organization to complete training in child abuse and neglect notification and training in child abuse and neglect reporting, as specified.
Existing law requires an administrator, employee, or regular volunteer of a youth service organization to undergo a background check, as prescribed.
This bill would specify that a parent volunteer, as defined, is not a regular volunteer, would exclude a parent volunteer from
the above-described training requirements, and would require a parent volunteer to undergo a background check.

Current Bill Text

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