Colorado § 42-1-224 Record check

Colorado Statutes

§ 42-1-224 — Record check

Colorado·Title 42 Vehicles and·Art. General and Administrative

(1)The department may submit fingerprints of an employee or prospective employee to the Colorado bureau of investigation to obtain a fingerprint-based criminal history record check if the employee's duties do or will provide them with access to Colorado driver's licenses and identification cards issued pursuant to article 2 of this title 42 or personal identifying information collected or stored by the department in order to issue driver's licenses or identification cards. The department of revenue shall require all such employees hired on or after April 15, 2010, to obtain a fingerprint-based criminal history record check prior to performing their official duties, and shall require all such employees hired before April 15, 2010, to obtain a fingerprint-based criminal history rec

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(1) The department may submit fingerprints of an
employee or prospective employee to the Colorado bureau of investigation to
obtain a fingerprint-based criminal history record check if the employee's duties do
or will provide them with access to Colorado driver's licenses and identification
cards issued pursuant to article 2 of this title 42 or personal identifying information
collected or stored by the department in order to issue driver's licenses or
identification cards. The department of revenue shall require all such employees
hired on or after April 15, 2010, to obtain a fingerprint-based criminal history record
check prior to performing their official duties, and shall require all such employees
hired before April 15, 2010, to obtain a fingerprint-based criminal history record
check by July 1, 2011. The department may use this information to make
employment decisions concerning such employees. Upon receipt of fingerprints
and payment for the costs, the Colorado bureau of investigation shall conduct a
state and national fingerprint-based criminal history record check utilizing records
of the Colorado bureau of investigation and the federal bureau of investigation. The
department shall be the authorized agency to receive information regarding the
result of the national criminal history record check. The Colorado bureau of
investigation shall charge the department a fee for record checks conducted
pursuant to this section. The Colorado bureau of investigation shall set such fee at
a level sufficient to cover the direct and indirect costs of processing requests made
pursuant to this section. Money collected by the bureau pursuant to this section is
subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly for the administration of
this section.

(2) When the results of a fingerprint-based criminal history record check of a
person performed pursuant to this section reveal a record of arrest without a
disposition, the department shall require the person to submit to a name-based
judicial record check, as defined in section 22-2-119.3 (6)(d). The department shall
pay the costs associated with a name-based judicial record check.

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Legislative History

Source: L. 2010: Entire section added, (HB 10-1011), ch. 110, p. 367, � 1, effective April 15. L. 2019: Entire section amended, (HB 19-1166), ch. 125, p. 558, � 51, effective April 18. L. 2022: (2) amended, (HB 22-1270), ch. 114, p. 534, � 55, effective April 21.