74.39A.260 - Department duties -- Criminal background checks on individual providers.

Department duties — Criminal background checks on individual providers.

The department must perform criminal background checks for individual providers and prospective individual providers and ensure that the authority has ready access to any long-term care abuse and neglect registry used by the department. Individual providers who are hired after January 1, 2012, are subject to background checks under RCW 74.39A.055.

[2009 c 580 § 9; 2002 c 3 § 5 (Initiative Measure No. 775, approved November 6, 2001).]

Notes: Findings--Captions not law--Severability -- 2002 c 3 (Initiative Measure No. 775): See RCW 74.39A.220 and notes following.