2E Modifying certain human services licensing and predatory offender data access provisions; authorizing the exchange of welfare licensing and investigative not public data between the licensing division of the department of human services and the department of corrections for combined services regulation purposes; expanding the licensing exception for head start nonresidential programs; clarifying the authority of the commissioner of human services to secure court orders against continued operation of programs failing to apply for a license after receiving notice of the license requirement; expanding certain requirements of counties or private placement agencies granting emergency foster care licenses to relatives, requiring explanation of the background study process and information relating to legal representation, disqualification and the right to request reconsideration to prospective licensees, specifying certain licensing data maintenance requirements of the commissioner; prohibiting the commissioner from issuing licenses for services in households with individuals disqualified from licensure through a background check and specifying certain requirements for reapplication; modifying and clarifying a certain provision regulating the handling of personal funds or property of persons served by residential programs; requiring and providing for the commissioner to issue temporary provisional licenses to license holders appealing license suspension or revocation with licenses expiring during the appeal period and new licenses to licensees under investigation with expired licenses; specifying the scope of contested case hearings upon determination of license holder responsibility for maltreatment and issuance of a fine at the same time and requiring the scope of administrative law judge review to include license denials or sanctions and determinations relating to setting aside disqualifications in certain criminal conviction or admission and variance termination cases; expanding the requirement for county attorneys to defend orders of the commissioner in consolidated contested case hearings relating to sanctions to family adult day services; specifying certain first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training requirements for staff in child care centers; expanding certain sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk reduction requirements to child foster care programs and to shaken baby syndrome; requiring county agencies to annually report to the commissioner certain information relating to disqualified household members for relative child foster care applicants and license holders; defining conflict of interest relating to county attorney enforcement of orders of the commissioner relating to sanctions and background checks; imposing certain child passenger restraint systems training requirements for family and group family child care, child care center and child foster care programs staff serving children under a certain age and expanding requirements for use; expanding the definition of incident under standards governing services to the mentally retarded; clarifying the method for determining the number of direct service staff required for day training and habilitation services; modifying certain policies and procedures requirements for program management standards; modifying certain licensed programs background study requirements of the commissioner and of county or private agencies, requiring only one study of license holders owning multiple licensed facilities; clarifying and expanding certain disqualification requirements relating to the commission of certain crimes and specifying the disqualification period for disqualifications based on a judicial determination other than a conviction; expanding certain disqualification notice content requirements; specifying the timelines for reconsideration requests delivered by personal service or mail; expanding the requirement for the commissioner to determine risk of harm upon receipt of reconsideration requests; modifying and clarifying certain provisions prohibiting or restricting commissioner disqualification set asides; providing for treatment on appeal of individuals disqualified based on a judicial determination and authorizing individuals disqualified based on both a preponderance of evidence and a conviction or admission and not receiving a set aside to request a fair hearing, exception, limiting the scope; limiting the scope of contested case hearings for public employees disqualified based on a conviction or admission; creating an exception for the requirement for the commissioner to obtain consent of license holders granted disqualification variances to disclose the reason for disqualification under certain child or foster care programs; expanding certain recordkeeping requirements for patients and residents receiving state operated services; granting the commissioner access to medical and criminal history data for predatory offender risk assessment and management for registration purposes; expanding certain requirements for the release on pass of patients civilly committed as mentally ill and dangerous, expanding the requirements to persons transferred to state operated services; requiring and providing for background studies on guardians ad litem through the commissioner, specifying certain duties of the court; providing for the availability of certain expunged records for background check purposes; modifying the time limit for investigating agency action on reconsideration requests under the child and vulnerable adult maltreatment reporting acts and prohibiting the reconsideration of certain maltreatment determinations involving a fine; expanding the content requirement for nursing or health care facility vulnerable adult abuse prevention plans relating to the risk of abusing other vulnerable adults
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