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Committee backs periodic FBI background checks for educator licenses in HB 1795
Summary
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony supporting HB 1795, which would require FBI criminal-history checks at license renewal and add checks for findings of neglect on the DCYF foster-parent list; the Department of Education said the change would provide periodic updates and align with surrounding states.
Steve Appleby, a Department of Education official, told the Senate Education Committee that HB 1795 would extend criminal-history record checks from initial educator licensure to the renewal process for all educator licenses. "This bill...bring[s] that check also to the renewal process for all educator licenses," Appleby said, adding that surrounding states perform periodic checks.
Appleby said the state currently conducts background checks only…
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