Public school volunteers.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to permit any person, except a person required to register as a sex offender, to serve as a nonteaching volunteer aide under the immediate supervision and direction of certificated personnel of the school district to perform noninstructional work that serves to assist the certificated personnel of the school district in their teaching and administrative responsibilities. Existing law authorizes a school district or county office of education to request that a local law enforcement agency conduct an automated records check of a prospective nonteaching volunteer aide in order to ascertain whether the prospective nonteaching volunteer aide has been convicted of a sex offense. This bill would also prohibit a person who has been convicted of a serious felony, as defined, or who is on postrelease community supervision or parole from serving as a volunteer aide, with exceptions for a parent of a child at the school, as provided. The bill would make conforming and other nonsubstantive changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.