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Commerce Department seeks authority for national background checks for sensitive hires
Summary
Department of Commerce asked the committee to permit state and national criminal-history checks for final applicants and employees in defined 'sensitive positions'; bill defines disqualifying convictions and adds the checks to the list of authorized criminal-record uses under state law.
House Bill 2342 would authorize the Secretary of Commerce to request state and national criminal-history record checks by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for final applicants or current employees in specified ‘‘sensitive positions’’ within the department, the reviser told the committee.
The bill would add the Commerce Secretary’s requests to K.S.A. 22-4714(b)(5), the statute that lists which agencies may receive adult convictions, adult diversions and juvenile adjudication information. HB 2342…
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