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Panel unanimously backs bill requiring confidential criminal-history checks for prospective education personnel
Summary
House Finance Division II voted 7-0 to recommend HB 1827, which requires confidential criminal-history record checks for prospective educational personnel; committee members said clarifying language was added to avoid unnecessarily excluding volunteers and aides.
The committee unanimously recommended House Bill 1827, a measure that requires the Department of Education to conduct confidential criminal-history record checks on prospective educational personnel. Members described edits that narrow scope and accommodate necessary exceptions so that parents and volunteer helpers would not be unintentionally excluded.
A committee member said the change's intention is to improve student safety while minimizing impact on community volunteers; lawmakers praised the clarifying work done by department staff to avoid overbreadth. The committee voted 7-0 by roll call to recommend the bill ought to pass.
The chair closed the meeting at 11:55 a.m.
