E Modifying certain provisions relating to the release of information for background studies for health and human services licensing purposes; authorizing release to license holders of the identity of substantiated perpetrators and victims of child maltreatment in the licensed facility by the commissioner of human services or local social services or county welfare agencies, the exchange of data derived from substantiated maltreatment reports with the department of health for background studies completion purposes and the sharing of data on individuals collected by the commissioner of human services under maltreatment investigations with the departments of human rights, health and corrections, the ombudsman for mental health and retardation and the appropriate regulatory board under certain laws or standards violation conditions; requiring commissioner of human services or local social services agency notice to heads of facilities of determinations of substantiated perpetrators of child maltreatment based on sexual abuse, requiring a copy to the subject of the notice; modifying certain maltreatment determination requirements of the health related licensing boards; requiring commissioner of human services notice to the agency or licensing board initiating the background study of the reason for licensure disqualification in cases of failure of the subject to cooperate or of substantiated maltreatment; reducing the time limit for submission of disqualification reconsideration requests, maltreatment determination to be deemed conclusive in cases of no reconsideration request, requiring the commissioner to rescind the disqualification upon a finding of incorrect information as the basis for disqualification, extending the time limit for commissioner response to reconsideration requests under certain conditions and providing for fair hearings or consolidated reconsiderations under certain conditions; modifying the contested case procedure; authorizing the commissioner to deny licensing of applicants failing to comply with applicable laws or rules or withholding relevant information from or giving false information to the commissioner in connection with a license application or during an investigation; providing for commissioner issuance of conditional licenses under certain conditions and modifying the authority of the commissioner to impose fines, providing for conditional license reconsideration; modifying certain sanctions, providing for expedited hearings for immediate license suspension under certain conditions, imposing certain responsibility on license holders ordered to pay fines; providing for consolidated contested case hearings for sanctions based on maltreatment determinations and disqualifications, modifying certain burden of proof requirements; providing a standard of evidence for disqualification hearings; expanding vulnerable adult maltreatment reporting requirements; providing for reconsideration of determinations of vulnerable adult neglect, expanding the definition of neglect; requiring the commissioners of health or human services to pursue changes to federal law necessary to allow greater discretion on disciplinary activities of unlicensed health care workers and apply for necessary federal waivers or approval to allow for a set-aside process relating to disqualifications for nurse aides in nursing homes by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of health to examine federal rules and regulations prohibiting neglect, abuse and financial exploitation of residents in licensed nursing facilities and to apply for waivers by a certain date to allow state control of the identification and prevention of maltreatment of residents in licensed nursing facilities and of disqualification or discipline of persons providing services to the residents (je, ja)