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House Journal: Page 1486: Tuesday, April 9, 1996

10   child abuse-child care registry duties under chapter
11   235D.
12     Sec. ___.  Section 235A.17, Code 1995, is amended
13   by adding the following new subsection:
14     NEW SUBSECTION.  3.  An employee of the department
15   of human services authorized to receive child abuse
16   information for purposes of the child abuse-child care
17   registry pursuant to section 235A.15, subsection 2,
18   paragraph "e", subparagraph (15) may redisseminate the
19   information in accordance with the provisions of
20   chapter 235D.
21     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  235D.1  DEFINITIONS.
22     As used in this chapter, unless the context
23   otherwise requires:
24     1.  "Central child abuse registry" or "central
25   registry" means the central child abuse registry
26   created in chapter 235A.
27     2.  "Child abuse-child care registry" means the
28   central child abuse-child care registry created by the
29   department pursuant to section 235D.9.
30     3.  "Child day care" means the same as defined in
31   section 237A.1.
32     4.  "Department" means the department of human
33   services.
34     5.  "Founded child abuse report" means a child
35   abuse report determined by the department to be child
36   abuse and placed in the central child abuse registry
37   as founded child abuse.
38     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  235D.2  PERSONS REQUIRED
39   TO REGISTER.
40     1.  A person who provides child day care and who is
41   named as having abused a child in a founded child
42   abuse report, which is placed in the central registry
43   on or after July 1, 1996, shall register as provided
44   in this chapter for a period of time equivalent to the
45   period of time the report is maintained on the central
46   child abuse registry.
47     2.  The registration requirements of this section
48   do not apply to any of the following:
49     a.  A person for whom the department has performed
50   an evaluation pursuant to section 237A.5, subsection

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 1   2, and has permitted the person to be licensed,
 2   registered, employed, or to reside in a child day care
 3   facility, if the person complies with the department's
 4   conditions established in section 237A.5, subsection
 5   2, paragraph "c".
 6     b.  A person who was named as having abused a child
 7   in a founded child abuse report in which the
 8   information concerning the person was determined to be
 9   unfounded and was corrected or eliminated pursuant to

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