§ 16-25-6-3 — Employment of certain individuals prohibited

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a
person who owns or operates a hospice program may not employ an
individual or allow a volunteer to provide hospice services if that
individual's or volunteer's limited criminal history indicates that the
individual or volunteer has:
(1) been convicted of rape (IC 35-42-4-1);
(2) been convicted of criminal deviate conduct (IC 35-42-4-2)
(repealed);
(3) been convicted of exploitation of an endangered adult (IC 35-46-1-12);
(4) had a judgment entered against the individual for failure to
report battery, neglect, or exploitation of an endangered adult (IC 35-46-1-13); or
(5) been convicted of theft (IC 35-43-4), if the conviction for theft
occurred less than ten (10) years before the individual's
employment application date.
(b) A hospice program may not employ an individual or allow a
volunteer to provide hospice services for more than twenty-one (21)
calendar days without receipt of that individual's or volunteer's limited
criminal history required by section 2 of this chapter, unless the Indiana
central repository for criminal history information under IC 10-13-3 is
solely responsible for failing to provide the individual's or volunteer's
limited criminal history to the hospice program within the time
required under this subsection.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.256-1999, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.2-2003, SEC.46; P.L.158-2013, SEC.230; P.L.214-2013, SEC.17.