HB-4971, As Passed Senate, May 12, 2010
May 19, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Dean, Durhal, Gregory, Miller, Switalski, Cushingberry, Lipton, Lemmons, Rocca, Polidori, Roy Schmidt, Slezak, Valentine, Bledsoe, Stanley and Hammel and referred to the Committee on Families and Children's Services.
A bill to amend 1975 PA 238, entitled
"Child protection law,"
by amending section 7j (MCL 722.627j), as amended by 2008 PA 374.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 7j. (1) Upon written request, the department may provide
to an individual, or whoever is appropriate, documentation stating
that the individual is not named in a central registry case as the
perpetrator of child abuse or child neglect.
(2) An individual or the department may share the document
provided in subsection (1) with whoever is appropriate for the
purpose of seeking employment or serving as a volunteer if that
employment or volunteer work will include contact with children.
(3) An employer, a person or agency to whom an individual is
applying for employment, or a volunteer agency, with appropriate
authorization and identification from the individual, may request
and receive central registry clearance information if that
employment or volunteer work will include contact with children.
(4) The department may develop an automated system that will
allow an individual applying for child-related employment or
seeking to volunteer in a capacity that would allow unsupervised
access to a child for whom the individual is not a person
responsible for that child's health or welfare to be listed in that
system if a screening of the individual finds that he or she has
not been named in a central registry case as the perpetrator of
child abuse or child neglect. The automated system developed under
this section shall provide for public access to the list of
individuals who have been screened for the purposes of complying
with this section. An automated system developed under this section
shall have appropriate safeguards and procedures to ensure that
information that is confidential under this act, state law, or
federal law is not accessible or disclosed through that system.