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Committee Hears Technical Fixes, FBI Conditions for State Background‑check Center Bill
Summary
A department bill to amend the state's background check center was presented with minor language changes requested by the FBI before biometric fingerprinting can be enabled; stakeholders welcomed administrative fixes but urged care to avoid hiring barriers.
Representative Dan (Trigorian/Trigorian in transcript) introduced LD 1157, a bill to amend laws governing the Maine Background Check Center (NBCC) and to enable the Division of Licensing and Certification to collect fingerprints and perform national biometric checks for direct access positions.
What the bill does: The Department of Health and Human Services told the committee the measure would make background checks portable between employers and authorize the NBCC to collect fingerprints to run FBI checks, a change intended to reduce hiring friction and duplicate checks for…
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