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1998 SESSION

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HB 1293 Criminal history records check; community services boards, etc.

Introduced by: Mary T. Christian | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Criminal background checks. Requires criminal background checks for any applicant for a job with a program licensed by the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services and for any applicant with an agency that provides services under contract with a community services board, or behavioral health authority . The requests for information are to come through the personal director serving the community services board, the executive director of the behavioral health authority or the director of DMHMRSAS. The bill requires community services boards and behavioral health authorities to report all founded cases of "consumer abuse or neglect" and establishes a central registry for such information as the Board shall determine through regulation.


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