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Expands background checks to improve child safety and organizational vetting, at the cost of added administrative burdens for contractors and potential delays, eligibility limits, and privacy exposure for applicants and workers.
Children and youth will be better protected because more contractors, volunteers, and licensees working around them will be subject to background checks, reducing the chance that people with disqualifying records are placed in roles around kids.
Schools, youth programs, and other qualified entities will have more comprehensive vetting when hiring or contracting, lowering organizational risk of hiring individuals with disqualifying records.
Parents and families will have increased confidence in the safety of programs because background checks will apply to a wider set of people working or seeking roles around children.
Nonprofits, small businesses, and other entities contracting with qualified entities will face higher compliance costs and administrative burdens to submit staff and volunteer lists for background checks.
Job-seekers, volunteers, and applicants (including young adults) may face delays, barriers to onboarding, or reduced eligibility because expanded background checks lengthen processing or flag disqualifying records.
Employees, volunteers, and applicants may experience increased privacy exposure because broader collection and sharing of background-check data expands who holds and can access sensitive personal information.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Expands who qualifies as a "covered individual" for child-protection background checks to include contractor personnel and those seeking licenses/certifications from qualified entities.
Expands who is considered a "covered individual" for National Child Protection Act (NCPA) background checks by including people who work for or volunteer with entities that have contracts with qualified entities, and by including people who are licensed, certified, or seeking such licensure/certification from a qualified entity. The change broadens the pool of people eligible for fingerprint-based child protection background checks, increasing obligations on entities and potentially increasing checks processed by law enforcement and background-check systems.
Introduced April 30, 2025 by Russell Fry · Last progress April 30, 2025