House
File
681
-
Enrolled
House
File
681
AN
ACT
PERMITTING
QUALIFIED
ENTITIES
TO
REQUEST
NATIONAL
CRIMINAL
HISTORY
CHECKS
OF
CERTAIN
COVERED
INDIVIDUALS.
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
Section
1.
NEW
SECTION
.
692C.1
National
criminal
history
record
checks
——
persons
providing
child
care,
elder
care,
and
care
for
individuals
with
disabilities.
1.
For
purposes
of
this
section:
a.
“Covered
individual”
means
an
individual
who
has,
seeks
to
have,
or
may
have
access
to
children,
the
elderly,
or
individuals
with
disabilities
served
by
a
qualified
entity
and
who
is
employed
by
volunteers
with,
or
seeks
to
volunteer
with
a
qualified
entity;
or
owns
or
operates
or
seeks
to
own
or
operate,
a
qualified
entity.
b.
“Department”
means
the
department
of
public
safety.
c.
“Qualified
entity”
means
a
business
or
organization,
whether
public,
private,
for-profit,
nonprofit,
or
voluntary,
that
provides
care
or
care
placement
services,
including
a
business
or
organization
that
licenses
or
certifies
others
to
provide
care
or
care
placement
services.
2.
A
qualified
entity
may
request
a
national
criminal
history
record
check
by
the
federal
bureau
of
investigation
on
covered
individuals
through
the
department
of
public
safety.
3.
The
qualified
entity
shall
submit
fingerprints
and
other
identifying
information
to
the
division
of
criminal
investigation
of
the
department
on
a
form
and
in
a
manner
as
House
File
681,
p.
2
prescribed
by
the
department.
The
department
shall
submit
the
information
through
the
state
criminal
history
repository
to
the
federal
bureau
of
investigation.
4.
The
department
may
use
authority
conferred
under
the
National
Child
Protection
Act,
as
codified
in
34
U.S.C.
§40104,
in
conducting
national
criminal
history
record
checks
on
covered
individuals.
5.
The
department
may
require
a
qualified
entity
to
pay
a
fee
associated
with
a
national
criminal
history
record
check.
The
fee
shall
not
exceed
the
actual
cost
of
the
national
criminal
history
record
check.
6.
The
results
of
national
criminal
history
record
checks
are
a
confidential
record
under
section
22.7.
7.
The
department
shall
adopt
rules
as
necessary
for
the
administration
of
this
section
pursuant
to
chapter
17A.
______________________________
LINDA
UPMEYER
Speaker
of
the
House
______________________________
CHARLES
SCHNEIDER
President
of
the
Senate
I
hereby
certify
that
this
bill
originated
in
the
House
and
is
known
as
House
File
681,
Eighty-eighth
General
Assembly.
______________________________
CARMINE
BOAL
Chief
Clerk
of
the
House
Approved
_______________,
2019
______________________________
KIM
REYNOLDS
Governor