Senate Bill 0722

    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 722

    By Senator Dudley





    25-233-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to certified nursing

  3         assistants; amending s. 400.211, F.S.;

  4         providing that nursing assistants who work in

  5         nursing home facilities are subject to federal

  6         criminal records checks by the Federal Bureau

  7         of Investigation as part of certification

  8         requirements; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (5) of section 400.211, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         400.211  Persons employed as nursing assistants;

15  certification requirement.--

16         (5)(a)  Every certified nursing assistant hired by a

17  nursing home facility on or after October 1, 1993, must,

18  within 5 working days after starting employment at a nursing

19  home facility, submit to the facility a complete set of

20  information necessary to conduct a records check through the

21  central abuse registry under chapter 415 and a statewide

22  criminal records correspondence check through the Department

23  of Law Enforcement. The facility shall submit the information

24  provided by the employee, within 48 hours, to the Department

25  of Children and Family Health and Rehabilitative Services'

26  central abuse registry and to the Department of Law

27  Enforcement, which shall conduct a screening according to the

28  provisions of s. 400.497(2).

29         (b)  Every certified nursing assistant who is hired by

30  a nursing home facility on or after October 1, 1998, is

31  subject to a federal criminal records check conducted by the

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 722
    25-233-98




  1  Federal Bureau of Investigation and must, within 5 working

  2  days after starting employment at a nursing home facility,

  3  submit to the facility a complete set of information necessary

  4  to conduct such a federal criminal records check. The facility

  5  shall submit the information provided by the employee, within

  6  48 hours, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The

  7  requirement set forth in this paragraph is in addition to

  8  other requirements for the certification of nursing

  9  assistants.

10         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1998.

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      facilities are subject to federal criminal records checks
15    conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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