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Committee questions background-check fee and its impact on victim services, nonprofits
Summary
Members reviewed funding and staffing for crime victim services and questioned who would pay background-check fees if departments begin charging, noting potential burden on volunteer-driven nonprofits and meal-delivery programs.
The committee reviewed a House request for additional funding in the crime victim-services area to handle grant processing and noted an associated background-check fee deficit. A committee member asked which organizations obtain background checks and whether raising fees would shift costs to organizations such as Meals on Wheels or other publicly funded community providers.
"If we raise the background check, how are we affecting these other parts to take over?" a committee member asked, urging staff to provide a list of organizations that use the state's background-check service.
Amy and others said the department administers multiple grants and processes background checks across different programs; staff agreed to follow up to identify which organizations use the service and to analyze the downstream budget impacts if fees rise. Members left the crime-victim and background-check lines open pending that information.
