PDFWAC 388-825-610

Who must have a Washington state and/or federal background check?

(1) DDA requires background checks on all contracted providers, individual providers, employees of contracted providers, and any other individual who needs to be qualified by DDA to have unsupervised access to individuals with developmental disabilities.
(2) Long-term care workers as defined in chapter 74.39A RCW hired after January 7, 2012 are subject to national fingerprint-based background checks.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 71A.12.030, 74.08.090. WSR 15-09-068, recodified as § 388-825-610, filed 4/15/15, effective 5/16/15. Statutory Authority: RCW 71A.12.030, 71A.12.120, 43.43.842, 74.39A.056, 43.20A.710. WSR 14-14-029, § 388-825-0610, filed 6/24/14, effective 7/25/14.]