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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-551" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Child Care; Foster Care">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The following facilities shall require employees and employers to obtain a criminal history records check under this Part V of this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a child care center required to be licensed under Title 9.5, Subtitle 4 of the Education Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a family child care home or large family child care home required to be registered under Title 9.5, Subtitle 3 of the Education Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a child care home required to be licensed under Title 9 of the Human Services Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a child care institution required to be licensed under this subtitle by an administration of the Department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a child care institution required to be licensed under Title 9 of the Human Services Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>a juvenile detention, correction, or treatment facility provided for in Title 9 of the Human Services Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>a public school as defined in Title 1 of the Education Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>a private or nonpublic school required to report annually to the State Board of Education under Title 2 of the Education Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>a foster care family home or group facility as defined under this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>a recreation center or recreation program operated by the State, a local government, or a private entity primarily serving minors;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>a day or residential camp, as defined in Title 10, Subtitle 16 of the Code of Maryland Regulations, primarily serving minors; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>a home health agency or residential service agency licensed by the Maryland Department of Health and authorized under Title 19 of the Health – General Article to provide home– or community–based health services for minors.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The following individuals shall obtain a criminal history records check under this Part V of this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an individual who is seeking to adopt a child through a child placement agency;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an individual who is seeking to become a guardian through a local department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>an individual whom the juvenile court appoints as a guardian of a child;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>an adult relative with whom a child, committed to a local department, is placed by the local department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>any adult known by a local department or the State Department of Education to be residing in:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a family child care home or large family child care home required to be registered under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a home where informal child care, as defined in child care subsidy regulations adopted under Title 13A of the Code of Maryland Regulations, is being provided or will be provided to a child who does not reside there;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a home of an adult relative of a child with whom the child, committed to a local department, is placed by the local department;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a foster care home or child care home required to be approved under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a home of an individual seeking to adopt a child through a child placement agency; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>a home of an individual seeking to become a guardian through a local department;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>an individual who agrees to provide, or to continue providing, informal child care, as defined in child care subsidy regulations, adopted under Title 13A of the Code of Maryland Regulations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>if requested by a local department:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a parent or guardian of a child who is committed to the local department and is or has been placed in an out–of–home placement within the past year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any adult known by the local department to be residing in the home of the parent or guardian; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>an adult or an individual who is not a relative and who agrees to provide care as a result of a sudden unavailability of the child’s primary caretaker, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a neighbor;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a friend;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an acquaintance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a community member; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a colleague or coworker of the child’s primary caretaker.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An employer at a facility under subsection (a) of this section may require a volunteer at the facility to obtain a criminal history records check under this Part V of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A local department may require a volunteer of that department who works with children to obtain a criminal history records check under this Part V of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>An employer at a facility not identified in subsection (a) of this section who employs individuals to work with children may require employees, including volunteers, to obtain a criminal history records check under this Part V of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>An employer, as defined in § 5–550(h)(2) of this subtitle, shall require an employee, as defined in § 5–550(g)(2) of this subtitle, to obtain a criminal history records check under this Part V of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a person who is required to have a criminal history records check under this Part V of this subtitle shall pay for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>reasonable administrative costs to the Department, not to exceed 10% of the processing fee; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the fee authorized under § 10–221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to Maryland criminal history records.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A volunteer under subsection (c), (d), or (e) of this section who volunteers for a program that is registered with the Maryland Mentoring Partnership is required to pay only the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An employer or other party may pay for the costs borne by the employee or other individual under subsection (g) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The local department shall reimburse:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an adult residing in a foster care home for the costs borne by the individual under subsection (g) of this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an individual described in subsection (b)(7)(ii) of this section for the costs borne by the individual under subsection (g) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
