2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 199 PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN - ADOPTION 199.462 Criminal background investigation of applicant to provide foster care, relative caregiver services, or adoptive home, and of applicant's adult household members -- Request for conviction information -- Form and fee for request -- Background investigation at annual reevaluation authorized -- Administrative regulation.
KY Rev Stat § 199.462 (1996 through Reg Sess) What's This?
199.462 Criminal background investigation of applicant to provide foster care,
relative caregiver services, or adoptive home, and of applicant's adult
household members -- Request for conviction information -- Form and fee for
request -- Background investigation at annual reevaluation authorized -Administrative regulation.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Before an applicant is approved to provide foster care or relative caregiver services
to a child, or approved to receive a child for adoption, the Cabinet for Health and
Family Services shall:
(a) Require a criminal background investigation of the applicant and any of the
applicant's adult household members by means of a fingerprint check by the
Department of Kentucky State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
or
(b) Request from the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet records of all conviction
information for the applicant and any of the applicant's adult household
members. The Justice and Public Safety Cabinet shall furnish the information
to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and shall also send a copy of
the information to the applicant.
The request for records shall be on a form approved by the Justice and Public Safety
Cabinet, and the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may charge a fee to be paid by
the applicant for the actual cost of processing the request.
During a certified adoptive or foster home's annual reevaluation, the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services may require a background investigation for each adult
household member of the certified adoptive or foster home under subsections (1)
and (2) of this section.
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall promulgate an administrative
regulation to implement this section.
Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 239, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 176, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2003 Ky. Acts
ch. 166, sec. 1, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 138,
effective July 15, 1998. -- Repealed, reenacted and amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 345,
sec. 3, effective July 15, 1988. -- Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 475, sec. 2, effective
July 15, 1986.
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