2022 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 — High-risk Medicaid providers and personal care attendants.
§ 12-1.6-2. Long-term healthcare workers — High-risk Medicaid providers and personal care attendants.
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, and the executive office of health and human services under §§ 42-7.2-18.1 and 42-7.2-18.3, required to check relevant registries and conduct national criminal records checks of routine contact patient employees, personal care attendants, and high-risk providers. The department of attorney general shall provide for an automated notice, as authorized in § 12-1.6-1, to those facilities or to the executive office of health and human services if a routine-contact patient employee, personal care attendant, or high-risk provider is subsequently convicted of a disqualifying offense, as described in the relevant licensing statute or in §§ 42-7.2-18.2 and 42-7.2-18.4. 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; P.L. 2022, ch. 231, art. 12, § 1, effective July 1, 2022.
