Community care facilities: background checks.
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Human Services
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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Overview
This bill changes the background check process for individuals working in community care facilities, which provide care for children. It allows these facilities to approve caregivers for children before completing a check of out-of-state child abuse and neglect registries, provided certain conditions are met, such as submitting a request for the check and ensuring the applicant has passed other background checks. The bill also requires facilities to immediately remove applicants if negative information is received from an out-of-state registry and to notify the department within three business days.
Key provisions
- Allows community care facilities to approve caregivers before completing out-of-state child abuse and neglect registry checks under specific conditions.
- Requires facilities to remove applicants immediately upon receiving disqualifying information from an out-of-state registry.
- Mandates notification to the department within three business days of removing an applicant.
- Requires a review of investigation reports from child protective agencies.
- Addresses background checks for individuals 18 or older residing in a facility who have lived in another state.
- Specifies that the department will develop processes for reviewing out-of-state findings of child abuse or neglect.
- Requires the facility to submit a request for the out-of-state registry check.
- Clarifies that the department must check the Child Abuse Central Index.
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