BILL REQ. #:  S-1362.1 

Read first time 02/09/09.   Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

     AN ACT Relating to consumer reports of employees or volunteers who will or may have unsupervised access to children, individuals with developmental disabilities, or vulnerable adults; and amending RCW 19.182.040.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 19.182.040 and 1993 c 476 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Except as authorized under subsection (2) of this section, no consumer reporting agency may make a consumer report containing any of the following items of information:
     (a) Bankruptcies that, from date of adjudication of the most recent bankruptcy, antedate the report by more than ten years;
     (b) Suits and judgments that, from date of entry, antedate the report by more than seven years or until the governing statute of limitations has expired, whichever is the longer period;
     (c) Paid tax liens that, from date of payment, antedate the report by more than seven years;
     (d) Accounts placed for collection or charged to profit and loss that antedate the report by more than seven years;
     (e) Records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime that, from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years;
     (f) Any other adverse item of information that antedates the report by more than seven years.
     (2) Subsection (1) of this section is not applicable in the case of a consumer report to be used in connection with:
     (a) A credit transaction involving, or that may reasonably be expected to involve, a principal amount of fifty thousand dollars or more;
     (b) The underwriting of life insurance involving, or that may reasonably be expected to involve, a face amount of fifty thousand dollars or more; ((or))
     (c) The employment of an individual at an annual salary that equals, or that may reasonably be expected to equal, twenty thousand dollars or more; or
     (d) Any prospective employee or volunteer who will or may have unsupervised access to children, individuals with developmental disabilities, or vulnerable adults.