ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1395
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By House Postsecondary Education & Workforce (originally sponsored by Representatives Farivar, Fosse, Nance, Reeves, Simmons, Obras, Berry, Mena, Scott, Doglio, Macri, Peterson, Salahuddin, Parshley, Cortes, Paul, Alvarado, Ryu, Duerr, Reed, Ramel, Shavers, Wylie, Ormsby, Street, Hill, and Donaghy)
READ FIRST TIME 02/06/25.
AN ACT Relating to streamlining the home care worker background check process; and amending RCW 43.20A.715 and 74.39A.056 .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 43.20A.715 and 2023 c 470 s 3014 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Where the department is required to screen a long-term care worker, contracted provider, or licensee through a background check to determine whether the person has a history that would disqualify the person from having unsupervised access to, working with, or providing supervision, care, or treatment to vulnerable adults or children, the department may not automatically disqualify a person on the basis of a criminal record that includes a conviction of any of the following crimes once the specified amount of time has passed for the particular crime: