Georgia Code, Title 20, Chapter 1a, Article 2 - Background Checks

• § 20-1a-30 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Definitions
  As used in this article, the term: (1) "Conviction" means a finding or verdict of guilty or a plea of guilty regardless of whether...
• § 20-1a-31 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Records Check Application for Potential Employees; Fingerprint Records Checks
  (a) A support center may furnish to the department a records check application for each potential employee of any licensed, commissioned, or permitted early...
• § 20-1a-32 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Program License or Commission Applicants; Records Check Requirements; Change of Ownership
  (a) Accompanying any application for a new license or commission for an early care and education program, the applicant shall furnish to the department...
• § 20-1a-33 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Notification to Applicant on Records Check
  After being furnished the required records check application under Code Section 20-1A-32, the department shall notify the license, commission, or change of ownership applicant...
• § 20-1a-34 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Check of Fingerprints on National Level; Satisfactory Determination Prior to Employment; Additional Records Checks
  (a) The department shall receive a records check application, as may be required by the department and allowed under federal law, for any individual...
• § 20-1a-35 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Provisional Employees; Records Check Requirements; Revocation of License, Commission, or Permit for Violations
  (a) Where there is need for a provisional employee to work at a licensed, commissioned, or permitted early care and education program facility, such...
• § 20-1a-36 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Certain Offenders Prohibited As Employees of Facilities
  No licensed, commissioned, or permitted facility operated as an early care and education program or similar facility or any operator of such a facility...
• § 20-1a-37 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Individuals Residing in Family Child Care Learning Home or At Certain Programs; Records Check Requirements
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, an individual who resides in a family child care learning home, as defined by Code Section 20-1A-2,...
• § 20-1a-38 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Change of Directors; Records Check Requirements
  (a) If the director of a licensed, commissioned, or permitted early care and education program ceases to be the director of that early care...
• § 20-1a-39 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Potential Employees; Current Employees and Directors; Records Check Requirements; Satisfactory Records Check; Liability for Hiring Ineligible Employee
  (a) Before a person may become an employee of any early care and education program after that early care and education program has received...
• § 20-1a-40 - Cooperation With Gcic and Other Law Enforcement Agencies; Fees; Penalty for Misuse of Information
  (a) GCIC and law enforcement agencies which have access to GCIC information shall cooperate with the department in performing preliminary and fingerprint records check...
• § 20-1a-41 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Liability for Information or Determinations Made Based Upon Records Check
  (a) Neither GCIC, the department, any law enforcement agency, nor the employees of any such entities shall be responsible for the accuracy of information...
• § 20-1a-42 - Construction With Article 1
  The requirements of this article are supplemental to any requirements for a license imposed by Article 1 of this chapter.
• § 20-1a-43 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Contested Case Procedure Following Rejection or Other Suspension of License or Application
  A determination by the department regarding preliminary or fingerprint records checks under this article, or any action by the department revoking, suspending, or refusing...
• § 20-1a-44 - Regulatory Authority
  The board is authorized to provide by regulation for the administration of this article.

Last modified: October 14, 2016