Child care providers; fingerprint-based criminal background checks, repeals sunset.
Summary
Child care providers; fingerprint-based criminal background checks; sunset and contingency expiration. Repeals the sunset and contingency expiration of the requirement that the following individuals undergo fingerprint-based national criminal history background checks: (i) applicants for employment by, employees of, applicants to serve as volunteers with, and volunteers with any licensed family day system, child day center exempt from licensure due to its operation by a religious institution, registered family day home, or family day home approved by a family day system; (ii) applicants for licensure as a family day system, registration as a family day home, or approval as a family day home by a family day system, as well as agents of such applicants and any adult living in such family day home; and (iii) individuals who apply for or enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services under which a child day center, family day home, or child day program will provide child care services funded by the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act, as well as the applicant's current or prospective employees and volunteers, agents, and any adult living in the child day center or family day home. This bill is identical to SB 675.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Mar 25, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 25, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 3, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 25, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
25
Key actions
3
Committee
8
Mar 25, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 462 (effective 7/1/20)
Feb 25, 2020
Senate · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Feb 21, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
Feb 13, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services
Feb 13, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Rereferred from Education and Health (9-Y 0-N)
Feb 4, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Feb 3, 2020
House of Delegates · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
Jan 28, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
Jan 15, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
Jan 15, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred from Education
Jan 7, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Education
Jan 7, 2020
House of Delegates · Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102068D
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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