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Committee adopts substitute and favors SB 44 to expand fingerprint background checks for additional licensed professions
Summary
The committee adopted a first substitute to SB 44 to align criminal‑history background-check requirements across professions and voted to recommend the substitute favorably to the full House; the substitute adds several medical and allied professions and makes a technical fund alignment for physician education/enforcement.
Senator Vickers appeared before the House Economic Development Workforce Services Committee to present SB 44, a bill to coordinate criminal-history background checks across state professional licensing and to add several professions to the fingerprinting requirement. The committee adopted a first substitute and voted to recommend the substitute favorably to the full House.
The bill’s sponsor, Senator Vickers, said the substitute does not change policy intent but makes technical corrections and aligns background-check standards across professions. Mark Steinegold, director of the Division of…
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