HB 1833: School volunteers

Summary

• Prohibits schools (including school districts, educational service districts, the Center for Childhood Deafness and Hearing Loss, the School for the Blind, Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs-funded Schools, charter schools, state-tribal compact schools, and their contractors) from denying prospective volunteers who will not have unsupervised access to children based on criminal history if the prospective volunteer has received a Certificate of Restoration of Opportunity (CROP) or a vacated conviction, provided the prospective volunteer signs a disclosure statement that there have been no conviction since the issue of the CROP or date the conviction was vacated, respectively.
• Permits a school to deny a prospective volunteer who has no CROP or vacated convictions who will not have unsupervised access to children based on criminal history only after considering whether the crime involved a minor child victim and the length of time that has elapsed since the conviction.
• Grants discretion to schools to deny a prospective volunteer based on criminal history if that prospective volunteer will have unsupervised access to students.

From the House Bill Analysis 2020 (HB 1833), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗