Bill Text: NH HB488 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
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-Introduced.html
HB 488-FN – AS INTRODUCED
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 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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:
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 at a child day care agency is offered employment 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 at the new agency. Before entering employment with the new agency, the individual shall undergo a New Hampshire state criminal records check through the department of safety.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
11-0649
Revised 01/31/11
HB 488 FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to criminal records checks for employment with child day care agencies.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Health and Human Services states this bill may decrease state, county and local expenditures, and state revenue by an indeterminable amount in FY 2011 and each year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on county or local revenue.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department states this bill modifies the requirement of the national criminal background check for employees of child care programs. Currently every employee of a child care program must submit fingerprints and undergo a national criminal record check and a State criminal check. The Department indicated that, under current law, if an employee leaves one child care program and accepts employment at another child care program the employee must submit new fingerprints and undergo a new national criminal background check. The Department states this bill would make the results of a national criminal background check portable, provided the employee has undergone a national criminal record check within three years of accepting employment in the new program. The Department expects this would result in general fund savings as fewer national background checks will be processed. There may be a related decline in federal revenue for the federal share of reduced costs. In addition, the Department states there may be savings to county and local governments for fewer background checks in day care programs supported by county and local governments. The Department is not able to determine the impact on the number of background checks or the fiscal impact of this bill.
The Department of Safety states this bill will have no fiscal impact to the Department of Safety.
