CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2055

 

 

                               

 

                   Chapter 104, Laws of 1992

 

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

 

 

FACILITIES FOR VULNERABLE ADULTS‑-CRIMINAL HISTORY OF EMPLOYEES

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/92

Passed by the House March 7, 1992

  Yeas 93   Nays 3

 

 

 

                  JOE KING

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate March 4, 1992

  Yeas 34   Nays 12

               CERTIFICATE

 

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2055 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

               JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

              ALAN THOMPSON

                               Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved March 31, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED          

 

               March 31, 1992 - 11:51 a.m.

 

 

 

               BOOTH GARDNER

Governor of the State of Washington

                        Secretary of State

                       State of Washington


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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2055

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

 

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representative Braddock)

 

Read first time 02/07/92.  Providing for criminal history background checks.


     AN ACT Relating to criminal history background checks; and amending RCW 43.43.842.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 43.43.842 and 1989 c 334 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) The secretary of social and health services and the secretary of health shall adopt additional requirements for the licensure or relicensure of agencies or facilities which provide care and treatment to vulnerable adults.  These additional requirements shall ensure that any person associated with a licensed agency or facility having direct contact with a vulnerable adult shall not have been:  (((1))) (a) Convicted of a crime against persons as defined in RCW 43.43.830, except as provided in this section; (((2))) (b) convicted of crimes relating to financial exploitation ((of a vulnerable adult)) as defined in RCW 43.43.830, except as provided in this section; (((3))) (c) found in any disciplinary board final decision to have abused a vulnerable adult under RCW 43.43.830; or (((4))) (d) the subject in a protective proceeding under chapter 74.34 RCW.

     (2) The rules adopted under this section shall permit the licensee to consider the criminal history of an applicant for employment in a licensed facility when the applicant has one or more convictions for a past offense and:

     (a) The offense was simple assault, assault in the fourth degree, or the same offense as it may be renamed, and three or more years have passed between the most recent conviction and the date of application for employment;

     (b) The offense was prostitution, or the same offense as it may be renamed, and three or more years have passed between the most recent conviction and the date of application for employment;

     (c) The offense was theft in the third degree, or the same offense as it may be renamed, and three or more years have passed between the most recent conviction and the date of application for employment;

     (d) The offense was theft in the second degree, or the same offense as it may be renamed, and five or more years have passed between the most recent conviction and the date of application for employment;

     (e) The offense was forgery, or the same offense as it may be renamed, and five or more years have passed between the most recent conviction and the date of application for employment.

     The offenses set forth in (a) through (e) of this subsection do not automatically disqualify an applicant from employment by a licensee.  Nothing in this section may be construed to require the employment of any person against a licensee's judgment.

     In consultation with law enforcement personnel, the secretary of social and health services and the secretary of health shall investigate the conviction record and the protection proceeding record information under chapter 43.43 RCW of each agency or facility and its staff under their respective jurisdictions seeking licensure or relicensure.  The ((secretary)) secretaries shall use the information solely for the purpose of determining eligibility for licensure or relicensure.  Criminal justice agencies shall provide the ((secretary)) secretaries such information as they may have and that the ((secretary)) secretaries may require for such purpose.


     Passed the House March 7, 1992.

     Passed the Senate March 4, 1992.

Approved by the Governor March 31, 1992.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 31, 1992.