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SB 997 Emergency medical services personnel; background checks, process.

Introduced by: Richard H. Stuart | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Emergency medical services personnel; background checks; process. Allows local governments, by adoption of an ordinance, to use an alternative method for criminal history background checks for emergency medical services personnel. Emergency medical services agencies in such localities shall require applicants to submit fingerprints and personal identifying information to be provided directly to the Central Criminal Records Exchange, which shall forward the results of the state and national records search to the local government or chief law-enforcement officer of the locality, who shall notify the Office of Emergency Medical Services of the applicant's eligibility for employment or volunteer service. This bill incorporates SB 837.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Emergency medical services personnel; background checks; process. Creates an alternative method for criminal history background checks for emergency medical services personnel allowing local governments that have adopted an ordinance to require applicants to submit to fingerprinting and to provide personal descriptive information to receive the results of such background checks directly from the Central Criminal Records Exchange. This bill incorporates SB 837.
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Emergency medical services personnel; background checks; process. Creates an alternative method for criminal history background checks for emergency medical services personnel, allowing local governments that have procedures in place for the collection of fingerprints and personal descriptive information and the forwarding of such fingerprints and information directly to the Department of State Police or the Federal Bureau of Investigation to do so instead of forwarding fingerprints and information through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the national criminal history background checks.