HB1991 - Tennessee: Sexual Offenders

Companion Bill SB2048. Sexual Offenders - Requires persons who contract to provide services to LEAs or child care programs to conduct criminal background checks of employees who come in direct contact with school children or enter school grounds while children are present to ensure that such employees are not sex offenders. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-413. Fiscal Summary for *HB1991 / SB2048 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB1991 / SB2048 Present law mandates that local boards of education and child care programs require any person applying for a position as a teacher and any person applying for any other position requiring proximity to school children or to children in a child care program to: agree to the release of all investigative records to the board or child care program for examination for the purpose [...]

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