Bill Text: NH HB488 | 2011 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Relative to criminal records checks for employment with child day care agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-01 - House Signed By Governor 05/27/2011; Effective 07/26/2011; Chapter 0100 [HB488 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2011-HB488-Chaptered.html
CHAPTER 100
HB 488-FN – FINAL VERSION
2Mar2011… 0378h
2011 SESSION
05/01
HOUSE BILL 488-FN
AN ACT relative to criminal records checks for employment with child day care agencies.
COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law
This bill provides for a more limited criminal records check when an employee or volunteer of a child day care agency, who has completed the full criminal records check within the last 3 years, transfers to another child day care agency.
This bill is a request of the department of health and human services.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
2Mar2011… 0378h
11-0649
05/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
AN ACT relative to criminal records checks for employment with child day care agencies.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
100:1 New Paragraph; Criminal Records Check Required for Employment with Child Day Care Agency. Amend RSA 170-E:7 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
II-a. If an individual who is or has been employed or volunteered at a child day care agency is offered employment or volunteers at another child day care agency, the individual shall not be required to submit a new set of fingerprints and undergo a new criminal records check through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as required in subparagraph II(b), provided that the individual has submitted fingerprints and undergone such a criminal records check under this section within 3 years of the individual’s first day of employment or volunteer service at the new agency. Before entering employment or volunteering with the new agency, the individual shall undergo a New Hampshire state criminal records check through the department of safety.
100:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: May 27, 2011
Effective Date: July 26, 2011
