§ 42-7.2-18.4 — § 42-7.2-18.4. Professional responsibility — Criminal records check disqualifying information for personal care aides.

Rhode Island § 42-7.2-18.4

• Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
• Title 42: State Affairs and Government
• Ch. 42-7.2: Office of Health and Human Services

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§ 42-7.2-18.4. Professional responsibility — Criminal records check disqualifying information for personal care aides.

(a) Information produced by a national criminal records check pertaining to conviction for the following crimes will result in a letter to the applicant and the executive office of health and human services, disqualifying the applicant: murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, first-degree sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault, third-degree sexual assault, assault on persons sixty (60) years of age or older, assault with intent to commit specified felonies (murder, robbery, rape, burglary, or the abominable and detestable crime against nature), felony assault, patient abuse, neglect or mistreatment of patients, burglary, first-degree arson, robbery, felony drug offenses, felony larceny or felony banking law violations, felony obtaining money under false pretenses, felony embezzlement, abuse, neglect and/or exploitation of adults with severe impairments, exploitation of elder persons, or a crime under section 1128(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(a)).

(b) For purposes of this section, "conviction� means, in addition to judgments of conviction entered by a court subsequent to a finding of guilty or a plea of guilty, those instances where the defendant has entered a plea of nolo contendere and has received a sentence of probation and those instances where a defendant has entered into a deferred sentence agreement with the attorney general.

Legislative History

P.L. 2022, ch. 231, art. 12, § 5, effective July 1, 2022.