2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 12 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 12-1.6 - National Criminal Records Check System
Section 12-1.6-2 - Long-term healthcare workers.
§ 12-1.6-2. Long-term healthcare workers.
The department of attorney general shall maintain an electronic, web-based system to assist facilities, licensed under chapters 17, 17.4, 17.7.1 of title 23 or § 23-1-52, required to check relevant registries and conduct national criminal records checks of routine contact patient employees. The department of attorney general shall provide for an automated notice, as authorized in § 12-1.6-1, to those facilities if a routine-contact patient employee is subsequently convicted of a disqualifying offense, as described in the relevant licensing statute. The department of attorney general may charge a facility a one-time, set-up fee of up to one hundred dollars ($100) for access to the electronic web-based system under this section.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2014, ch. 347, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 399, § 1.)
