HB 1565 - DIGEST

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.