ESHB 1395: Streamlining the home care worker background check process.

What this bill does

Provides conditions under which an employer may not conduct a character, competence, and sustainability review for long-term care providers. Allows long-term care providers to have unsupervised access of children and vulnerable adults for up to 30 days while a character, competency, and sustainability review is conducted under certain circumstances. Limits the circumstances under which a fingerprint-based

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Floor votes

• House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 12, 2025
  78 yea · 19 nay · 1 not voting
• House: Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 18, 2025
  59 yea · 38 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 14, 2025
  31 yea · 18 nay

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