House Amendment 2053


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend Senate File 601, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 46, by inserting after line 7 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  Section 279.13, subsection 1, paragraph
     1  6 b, if enacted by 2007 Iowa Acts, Senate File 277,
     1  7 section 11, is amended to read as follows:
     1  8    b.  (1)  Prior to entering into an initial contract
     1  9 with a teacher who holds a license other than an
     1 10 initial license issued by the board of educational
     1 11 examiners under chapter 272, the school district shall
     1 12 either request the division of criminal investigation
     1 13 of the department of public safety to conduct a
     1 14 background investigation of the applicant or request a
     1 15 qualified background screening company accredited by
     1 16 the national association of professional background
     1 17 check screeners to conduct a background check on the
     1 18 applicant.  The
     1 19    (2)  If the school district submits a request to
     1 20 the division of public safety pursuant to subparagraph
     1 21 (1), the school district shall require the teacher to
     1 22 submit a completed fingerprint packet, which shall be
     1 23 used to facilitate a national criminal history check.
     1 24 The school district shall submit the packet to the
     1 25 division of criminal investigation of the department
     1 26 of public safety which shall conduct a thorough
     1 27 background investigation of the teacher.  The
     1 28 superintendent of a school district or the
     1 29 superintendent's designee shall have access to and
     1 30 shall review the sex offender registry information
     1 31 under section 692A.13, the central registry for child
     1 32 abuse information established under section 235A.14,
     1 33 and the central registry for dependent adult abuse
     1 34 information established under section 235B.5 for
     1 35 information regarding applicants for employment as a
     1 36 teacher.
     1 37    (3)  If the school district submits a request to a
     1 38 qualified background screening company pursuant to
     1 39 subparagraph (1), the background check shall include a
     1 40 national criminal history check, a review of the sex
     1 41 offender registry information under section 692A.13,
     1 42 the central registry for child abuse information
     1 43 established under section 235A.14 as the
     1 44 superintendent's designee under section 235A.15, and
     1 45 the central registry for dependent adult abuse
     1 46 information established under section 235B.5 as the
     1 47 superintendent's designee under section 235B.6 for
     1 48 information regarding applicants for employment as a
     1 49 teacher.
     1 50    (4)  The school district may charge the teacher a
     2  1 fee for the background investigation, which shall not
     2  2 exceed the fee charged by the division of criminal
     2  3 investigation for conducting the background
     2  4 investigation.>
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     2  8 WINCKLER of Scott
     2  9 SF 601.227 82
     2 10 mg/es/9802

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