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Relating to background checks for employees and students of certain facilities, providers, programs, and agencies
Sponsored by the House Public Safety Committee
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2020
- Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
- Done: House committeeMarch 10, 2020
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 10, 2020
- Skipped: Senate committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the SenateFebruary 24, 202050–0
- Done: To the GovernorJune 1, 2020
- Done: Signed into lawJune 1, 2020
SF 2299 became law → The same legislation passed as SF 2299, so this version was set aside. Go to SF 2299 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Hospitals, home care providers, and nursing programs can now use outside companies to run quick, preliminary background checks on their workers and students. These early checks can happen while the state is still finishing the official, required background investigations. This change helps these organizations start the screening process sooner.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to background record checks for employees and students of certain facilities, providers, programs, and agencies. The bill provides that in addition to background record checks being performed by the department of public safety and the department of human services, an entity may have a third-party vendor conduct a preliminary background check pending completion of the required record checks. The bill makes conforming changes throughout the Code to allow for the preliminary record checks requirements for entities including hospitals and health care facilities, providers of in-home services including homemaker-home health aides and home care aides, and other providers of in-home services, adult day services, hospices, home and community-based services waiver providers, elder group homes, assisted living programs, certified nurse aide training programs, and nursing programs.
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
16 for · 0 against · 26 undecided · Who →
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