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Committee approves amended bill allowing Department of Emergency Services to conduct fingerprint criminal history checks
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The Government and Veterans Affairs Committee voted 14-0 to recommend House Bill 1075 as amended, allowing the Department of Emergency Services to conduct fingerprint criminal history checks for certain employees and applicants pending FBI approval.
The House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee on Friday voted 14-0 to recommend House Bill 1075 as amended, a bill that would authorize the Department of Emergency Services (DES) to perform fingerprint‑based criminal history record checks for certain employees and job applicants.
Darren Hanson, homeland security division director at DES, told the committee that the department currently relies on the Bureau of Criminal Investigation or other workarounds for some checks and that giving DES statutory authority would create consistency across the agency’s Homeland Security and State Radio divisions and allow DES to perform fingerprinting in‑house. Hanson said DES…
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