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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-555" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Child Care; Foster Care">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Department shall conduct the criminal history records checks required under this Part V of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The facilities identified in § 5–551(a) of this subtitle shall apply to the Central Repository for a national and State criminal history records check for each employee, employer, individual, or volunteer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>As part of an application for a criminal history records check, a facility identified in § 5–551(a) of this subtitle shall submit to the Central Repository:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a legible set of the employee’s, employer’s, individual’s, or volunteer’s fingerprints taken in a format approved by the Director of the Central Repository and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the fee authorized under § 10–221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to State criminal history records; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In accordance with §§ 10–201 through 10–229 of the Criminal Procedure Article, the Central Repository shall forward the employee’s, employer’s, individual’s, or volunteer’s:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>State criminal history record information to the employee, employer, individual, or volunteer; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>national criminal history record information to the authorized agencies required to license, register, approve, or certify the facility identified in § 5–551(a) of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department shall update an initial criminal history records check for an employee, employer, or individual identified in § 5–551(b), (c), (d), or (e) of this subtitle and issue an updated records check in accordance with this subsection.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department shall provide an applicant’s initial and updated State criminal history record to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the recipients of the State criminal history record specified in subsection (e) of this section; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the State Department of Education if the applicant is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an employee of or an adult resident in a child care center that is required to be licensed or to hold a letter of compliance under Title 9.5, Subtitle 4 of the Education Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an employee of or an adult resident in a family child care home or large family child care home that is required to be registered under Title 9.5, Subtitle 3 of the Education Article; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an individual who provides or agrees to provide informal child care or an adult who resides in a home where informal child care is being provided or will be provided to a child who does not reside there.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, on receiving a written request from an employee, the Department shall disseminate the national and State criminal history records check to authorized agencies if the criminal history records check was completed during the prior 180 days.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On receiving a written request from a student teacher employed under § 6–107 of the Education Article, the Department shall disseminate the national and State criminal history records check to authorized agencies if the criminal history records check was completed during the prior 365 days.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Information obtained from the Central Repository under this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is confidential;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may not be disseminated; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>may be used only for the purposes authorized by this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The subject of a criminal history records check under this subtitle may contest the contents of the national and State criminal history records check issued by the Central Repository as provided in § 10–223 of the Criminal Procedure Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
