Present law generally prohibits subcontractors and their employees from coming in direct contact with school children or with children in a child care program or entering the grounds of a school or child care center when children are present in the performance of a contract with a person who contracts with a school, LEA, or child care program without first supplying a fingerprint sample and submitting to a criminal history records check to be conducted by the TBI and the FBI, if the contract requires:
(1) The person or an employee of the person to have direct contact with school children or to children in a child care program; or
(2) The person or employee to have access to the grounds of a school or child care center when children are present.
Present law prohibits a subcontractor or employee of a subcontractor who is subject to the criminal history check requirement under present law from coming in direct contact with school children or with children in a child care program or entering the grounds of a school or child care center when children are present if the criminal history records check indicates that the employer or employee has ever been convicted of:
(1) A sexual offense or violent sexual offense;
(2) Any offense against a person, such as assault, homicide, kidnapping, and robbery;
(3) Arson;
(4) Burglary;
(5) Child abuse, neglect, or endangerment;
(6) A felony drug offense;
(7) Providing handguns to juveniles; or
(8) A weapons-related offense.
This bill reduces the list of disqualifying offenses to only include the offenses described in (1), (5), and (6).

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 49-5-413(d)(3)(B)(i), 49-5-413