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Senate approves expanded background checks for home-health workers
Summary
The Senate passed Substitute Senate Bill 64 unanimously (27–0 with 2 absent), expanding which background databases licensed health-care facilities may access for home-health hires while limiting access for exempted facilities and individuals, and coordinated the bill with a pending childcare-database measure.
Substitute Senate Bill 64, a bill to clarify and expand background-check access for home-health professionals, passed the Utah State Senate on Feb. 17 by roll call.
Senator Wadhams explained the legislation and the handout showing which databases would be accessible under the bill: licensed health-care facilities would have access to the BCI criminal checks, the…
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