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10   information for the children's parent, guardian, or
11   custodian.  The forms may provide for the reporting of
12   additional relevant information, including but not
13   limited to, residents in the household of the person
14   required to register, but shall not include
15   information identifying the victim of the child abuse
16   which the registrant was found to have committed.
17   Forms shall be available to any person upon request to
18   the department.
19     2.  a.  The department shall prepare disclosure
20   forms which shall be made available to a registrant.
21   The disclosure form shall provide for a written
22   acknowledgment by the parent or guardian of each child
23   for which the registrant provides child day care that
24   the registrant is required to register with the child
25   care-child abuse registry by reason of having been
26   named as having abused a child in a founded child
27   abuse report.  The form shall also provide
28   instructions regarding the parent's, guardian's, or
29   custodian's access to information maintained in the
30   child abuse-child care registry.
31     b.  The disclosure form shall be signed by the
32   parent or guardian of each child for which the
33   registrant provides child day care, acknowledging that
34   the parent or guardian has read the form.  A
35   disclosure form shall be filed with the department for
36   each child in the registrant's child day care as part
37   of the registration requirements.  The department
38   shall retain a disclosure form filed in accordance
39   with this paragraph for a period of three years.
40     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  235D.9  DEPARTMENT DUTIES
41   _ REGISTRY.
42     The department shall perform all of the following
43   duties:
44     1.  Develop and disseminate the standard forms for
45   registering persons required to register pursuant to
46   section 235D.2, and for understanding of registration
47   requirements by the persons.
48     2.  Maintain a central registry of information
49   collected from persons required to register under this
50   chapter, which shall be known as the child abuse-child

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 1   care registry.
 2     3.  Adopt rules under chapter 17A as necessary to
 3   do all of the following:
 4     a.  Ensure compliance with registration
 5   requirements of this chapter.
 6     b.  Provide guidelines for persons required to
 7   assist in obtaining registry information.
 8     c.  Provide a procedure for the dissemination of
 9   information contained in the child abuse-child care

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