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2024 SESSION
HB 485 School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications, penalty for noncompliance.
Introduced by: Thomas A. Garrett, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licensed, provisionally licensed, or unlicensed are subject to the requirements in existing law to undergo a criminal history records check and a search of the registry of founded complaints of child abuse and neglect and to disclose certain criminal history information at the employment application stage and upon arrest. The bill provides that in the event that any school board fails or refuses to perform its duty to require any employee to undergo a criminal history records check as set forth in relevant law, each individual member of such board is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and his position on such school board shall be deemed vacant.
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HISTORY
- 01/08/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101308D
- 01/08/24 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/24 House: Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 02/06/24 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 by voice vote
- 02/07/24 House: Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote