Authorizes the following types of providers, for facilitating timely access to criminal background information and minimizing the number of requests made, to share copies of completed criminal background inquiry information: Health care facilities, in-home services agencies, community residential service businesses, and consumer directed employers.

Authorizes the department of social and health services to maintain a background check database and allows businesses and organizations, that are required to complete background checks for long-term care workers, to satisfy that requirement by using the background check database.