2019 Iowa Code
Title IV - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 135 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Section 135.24A - Free clinics — volunteer record check.
135.24A Free clinics — volunteer record check.
1. For purposes of this section, “free clinic” means a free clinic as defined in section 135.24 that is also a network of free clinics in this state that offers operational and collaborative opportunities to free clinics.
2. Persons who are potential volunteers or volunteers in a free clinic in a position having direct individual contact with patients of the free clinic shall be subject to criminal history and child and dependent adult abuse record checks in accordance with this section. The free clinic shall request that the department of public safety perform the criminal history check and the department of human services perform child and dependent adult abuse record checks of the person in this state and may request these checks in other states.
3. A free clinic subject to this section shall establish an evaluation process to determine whether a crime of founded child or dependent adult abuse warrants prohibition of the person’s participation as a volunteer in the free clinic. The evaluation process shall not be less stringent than the evaluation process performed by the department of human services and shall be approved by the department of human services.
2018 Acts, ch 1104, §1, 5
Referred to in §235A.15, 235B.6
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