RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 43 (SB 32) 2019 Regular Session Fannin
Prior law provided for criminal history background checks on nonlicensed persons employed
by certain healthcare facilities, agencies, providers, or programs. New law retains prior law
and provides for criminal history background checks on nonlicensed persons enrolling in a
clinical preceptor nurse aide training program offered by a community college, vocational-
technical program, or other educational entity or another entity approved by the Louisiana
Department of Health pursuant to federal or state law or regulation.
Prior law provided authority for certain employers to request criminal history and national
sex offender registry checks from the office of state police within the Department of Public
Safety and Corrections or from an authorized agency authorized by state police to conduct
a criminal history and national sex offender registry check. New law retains prior law and
provides authority for educational institutions and training programs to use the office of state
police or an authorized agency to request a criminal history and national sex offender registry
check on clinical preceptor nurse aide applicants.
Prior law provided that employers requesting a search of the office's criminal history files on
an applicant for employment shall pay the fee the office is authorized by law to charge for
a search of the office's criminal history files. New law retains prior law and provides that an
educational institution or approved training program shall pay the same fee for a search on
an applicant for the clinical preceptor nurse aide training program.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Amends R.S. 40:1203.1(5) and R.S. 40:1203.2 (section heading); adds R.S. 40:1203.1(7)
and (8) and R.S. 40:1203.2(G))