2023 California Code › Financial Code - FIN › DIVISION 1.25 - Digital Financial Assets Businesses › CHAPTER 2 - Licensure › Section 3219.

3219. (a) (1) The commissioner shall require the submission of fingerprints for each applicant if the applicant is a natural person, and of each executive officer and responsible individual associated with the applicant, for the purpose of conducting a criminal history search by means of a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history record check.
(2) The commissioner shall require the submission of fingerprints for any natural person that has control of the applicant for the purpose of conducting a criminal history search by means of a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history record check.
(3) If a person that has control of the applicant is not a natural person, the commissioner shall require a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history record check, including the submission of fingerprints, for each executive officer and responsible person associated with that person that has control of the applicant for the purpose of conducting a criminal history search by means of a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history record check.
(b) Section 461 of the Business and Professions Code shall not be applicable to the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation when using a national uniform application adopted or approved for use by the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry in connection with this division.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in connection with an application for a license under this division, the commissioner may require every applicant, at a minimum, to furnish to the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry information described under subdivision (a) of this section.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner may ask the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry to obtain Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history record check on individuals described in subdivision (a), pursuant to Section 5110 of the SAFE Act. For the purposes of this section, a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history record check shall include forwarding the individual’s fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner may ask the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry to obtain state criminal history background check information on applicants described in subdivision (a) using the procedures set forth in subdivisions (f) and (h).
(f) If the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry electronically submits fingerprint images and related information, as required by the Department of Justice, for an applicant under this division for the purposes of obtaining information as to the existence and content of a record of state convictions and state arrests and to the existence and content of a record of state arrests for which the Department of Justice establishes that the person is free on bail or on their recognizance pending trial or appeal, the Department of Justice shall provide an electronic response to the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (p) of Section 11105 of the Penal Code, and shall provide the same electronic response to the commissioner.
(g) The Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry may request from the Department of Justice subsequent arrest notification service, as provided pursuant to Section 11105.2 of the Penal Code, for all individuals described in subdivision (a) of this section. The Department of Justice shall provide the same electronic response to the commissioner.
(h) The Department of Justice shall charge a fee sufficient to cover the reasonable costs of processing the requests described in this section.
(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 792, Sec. 1. (AB 39) Effective January 1, 2024.)