California AB 506 administrative checklist

Use this as an operating checklist—not as a legal opinion that your organization is compliant.

  1. Confirm the organization is a covered youth service organization and identify any alternate statutory background-check route.
  2. Inventory administrators and employees.
  3. Identify adult volunteers with direct contact/supervision and review the regular-volunteer time thresholds.
  4. Track mandated reporter training completion for covered people.
  5. Confirm the appropriate DOJ background-check process and organization authorization.
  6. Maintain adopted child-abuse prevention policies, including external reporting procedures.
  7. Address the two-mandated-reporter safeguard to the greatest extent possible.
  8. Document onboarding, exceptions and offboarding.
  9. Review the process annually and when DOJ guidance changes.

Official statute: BPC §18975