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BILL · 2007–08 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 1854

HB 1854: Background checks

Revising background check requirements for the department of social and health services and the department of early learning.

Summary

  • Consolidates background check processes for employees of the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) and their contracted service providers.
  • Requires fingerprint background checks on all foster and adoptive parents and on kinship and kinship-like care givers.
  • Directs the DSHS to adopt rules related to background checks.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1854), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
  1. IntroducedJan 30, 2007
  2. Out of committeeMar 5, 2007
  3. Passed Housestopped here
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Mary Lou Dickerson (D-36)
Introduced
January 30, 2007 in the House
Last action
January 14, 2008
Requested by
State agency
Companion bill
SB 5774
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
HB 1854, SHB 1854

AN ACT Relating to background check requirements for the department of social and health services and the department of early learning;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Mary Lou Dickerson (D-36)

5 co-sponsors (5 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Jeannie Darneille D-27Mary Helen Roberts D-21Sherry Appleton D-23Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney D-46Christopher Hurst D-31

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. House Rules "X" file. (SHB 1854)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SHB 1854)
  3. House Rules "X" file.
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SHB 1854)
  6. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  7. APP - Executive action taken by committee. (SHB 1854)
  8. Minority; without recommendation. (SHB 1854)
  9. APP - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Early Learning & Children's Services. (SHB 1854)
  10. APP - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Early Learning & Children's Services.
  11. Minority; without recommendation.
  12. APP - Executive action taken by committee.
  13. Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 1854)
  14. Referred to Appropriations.
  15. ELCS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 1854)
  16. Minority; without recommendation. (SHB 1854)
  17. ELCS - Executive action taken by committee.
  18. Minority; without recommendation.
  19. ELCS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  20. First reading, referred to Early Learning & Children's Services.

HB 1854 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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