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Committee narrows access to prescription database for DCS supervisors, approves background-check language for childcare contractors

5839023 · March 26, 2025
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Summary

The House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee voted to amend Senate Bill 498 to allow Department of Child Services supervisors — not all caseworkers — access to the InSpec prescription-monitoring system and tightened contractor background-check language with emergency-shelter exemptions.

The House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee on an unspecified date approved changes to Senate Bill 498 that let Department of Child Services supervisors access the InSpec prescription-monitoring system and clarified background-check requirements for childcare contractors, staff said.

The committee’s amendment limiting InSpec access was presented by Representative Laura Goss Reeves. "I had a request from a DCS caseworker in Grant County to allow DCS caseworkers to have access to the InSpec program," she said, and the amendment narrows that access so "this amendment only allows DCS supervisors to have access to that information." She said law enforcement already has access.

The committee…

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