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House Amendment 3814

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 436, as passed by the Senate, as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, line 8, by striking the word
  1  4 "subparagraph" and inserting the following:
  1  5 "subparagraphs".
  1  6    #2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 13 the
  1  7 following:
  1  8    "NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (12)  To an administrator of an
  1  9 agency certified by the department of human services
  1 10 to provide services under a medical assistance home
  1 11 and community-based services waiver, if the
  1 12 information concerns a person employed by or being
  1 13 considered by the agency for employment."
  1 14    #3.  Page 1, by inserting after line 23 the
  1 15 following:
  1 16    "Sec.    .  Section 235B.6, subsection 2, paragraph
  1 17 c, Code 1995, is amended by adding the following new
  1 18 subparagraph:
  1 19    NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (5)  To an administrator of an
  1 20 agency certified by the department of human services
  1 21 to provide services under a medical assistance home
  1 22 and community-based services waiver, if the
  1 23 information concerns a person employed by or being
  1 24 considered by the agency for employment.
  1 25    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  249A.29  HOME AND
  1 26 COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES WAIVER PROVIDERS &endash; RECORDS
  1 27 CHECKS.
  1 28    1.  For purposes of this section unless the context
  1 29 otherwise requires:
  1 30    a.  "Consumer" means an individual approved by the
  1 31 department to receive services under a waiver.
  1 32    b.  "Provider" means an agency certified by the
  1 33 department to provide services under a waiver.
  1 34    c.  "Waiver" means a home and community-based
  1 35 services waiver approved by the federal government and
  1 36 implemented under the medical assistance program.
  1 37    2.  If a person is being considered by a provider
  1 38 for employment involving direct responsibility for a
  1 39 consumer or with access to a consumer when the
  1 40 consumer is alone, and if the person has been
  1 41 convicted of a crime or has a record of founded child
  1 42 or dependent adult abuse, the department shall perform
  1 43 an evaluation to determine whether the crime or
  1 44 founded abuse warrants prohibition of employment by
  1 45 the provider.  The department shall conduct criminal
  1 46 and child and dependent adult abuse record checks of
  1 47 the person in this state and may conduct these checks
  1 48 in other states.  The record checks and evaluations
  1 49 required by this section shall be performed in
  1 50 accordance with procedures adopted for this purpose by
  2  1 the department.
  2  2    3.  If the department determines that a person
  2  3 employed by a provider has committed a crime or has a
  2  4 record of founded abuse, the department shall perform
  2  5 an evaluation to determine whether prohibition of the
  2  6 person's employment is warranted.
  2  7    4.  In an evaluation, the department shall consider
  2  8 the nature and seriousness of the crime or founded
  2  9 abuse in relation to the position sought or held, the
  2 10 time elapsed since the commission of the crime or
  2 11 founded abuse, the circumstances under which the crime
  2 12 or founded abuse was committed, the degree of
  2 13 rehabilitation, the likelihood that the person will
  2 14 commit the crime or founded abuse again, and the
  2 15 number of crimes or founded abuses committed by the
  2 16 person involved.  The department may permit a person
  2 17 who is evaluated to be employed or to continue to be
  2 18 employed by the provider if the person complies with
  2 19 the department's conditions relating to the
  2 20 employment, which may include completion of additional
  2 21 training.
  2 22    5.  If the department determines that the person
  2 23 has committed a crime or has a record of founded abuse
  2 24 which warrants prohibition of employment, the person
  2 25 shall not be employed by a provider."
  2 26    #4.  Title page, line 1, by striking the words "the
  2 27 child abuse registry" and inserting the following:
  2 28 "certification and employment provisions involving
  2 29 state abuse registries".
  2 30    #5.  Title page, line 3, by striking the word
  2 31 "and".
  2 32    #6.  Title page, line 4, by inserting after the
  2 33 word "employers" the following:  ", and requiring
  2 34 records checks for purposes of employment by certain
  2 35 medical assistance program service providers".  
  2 36 
  2 37 
  2 38                              
  2 39 COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
  2 40 DAGGETT of Union, Chairperson
  2 41 SF 436.201 76
  2 42 jp/jj
     

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