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Committee hears bill to give DHHS fuller access to applicants’ criminal records for childcare licensing
Summary
A bill that would let the Department of Health and Human Services receive full FBI criminal-history records, including non‑adjudicated charges, drew agency testimony and questions about limits such as juvenile records and the timing of FBI “snapshots.”
The House Children and Family Law Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 22 on behalf of the bill’s prime sponsor, Sen. John Pearl, with an agency request that would let the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) receive fuller criminal‑history information when licensing child‑care workers.
Melissa Clement, chief of DHHS’s Childcare Licensing Unit, told the committee, “the bill will close the gap so that [the] childcare licensing unit receives full information regarding an individual's criminal record, including criminal charges.” Clement said the department requested the change after identifying cases in which charges were not visible to licensing staff because the…
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