2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
General - Continued
Article 59 - Private Occupational Schools
§ 12-59-105.7. Submittal of fingerprints for persons teaching at designated schools - criminal history record check - prerequisite for commencing or continuing employment

(1) (a) Instructional staff or prospective instructional staff who may be teaching students in a school designated by the board pursuant to section 12-59-105.3 (1) (m) shall, beginning July 1, 2006, in order to commence or continue employment at a designated school, submit a set of his or her fingerprints to the Colorado bureau of investigation for the purpose of conducting a state and national fingerprint-based criminal history record check utilizing records of the Colorado bureau of investigation and the federal bureau of investigation. Nothing in this section shall preclude the board from making further inquiries into the background of instructional staff or prospective instructional staff. Instructional staff or prospective instructional staff shall pay the fee established by the Colorado bureau of investigation for conducting the fingerprint-based criminal history record check. Upon completion of the criminal history record check, the bureau shall forward the results to the board. The board shall conduct a review of the results of the criminal history record check forwarded by the bureau and consider the results in assessing whether instructional staff or prospective instructional staff meet minimum standards of qualification, as established by the board pursuant to section 12-59-106, necessary to commence or continue employment at the designated school.

(b) Instructional staff or prospective instructional staff shall be required to resubmit a set of his or her fingerprints pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) even if he or she previously submitted his or her fingerprints pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (1).

(2) In addition to any other requirements established by the board for the necessary qualifications of instructional staff or prospective instructional staff, the submittal of fingerprints pursuant to subsection (1) of this section and results consistent with the minimum standards of qualification established by the board pursuant to section 12-59-106 shall be a prerequisite to commencing or continuing employment as instructional staff who may be teaching students in a school designated by the board pursuant to section 12-59-105.3 (1) (m).