Senate Bill No. 625
(By Senator Wooton)
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[Introduced February 22, 1999;
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section fifteen, article one, chapter
thirty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing
professional licensing boards to obtain fingerprints from
license applicants and licensees for the purpose of
obtaining criminal history record checks; and authorizing
boards to obtain criminal history information on license
applicants and licensees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section fifteen, article one, chapter thirty of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL STATE BOARDS OF
EXAMINATION OR REGISTRATION REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER.
§30-1-15. Boards may obtain criminal history record checks on
an applicants for a censure and licensees.
Notwithstanding any provision in this code to the contrary,
a professional licensing board created pursuant to the provisions
of this chapter may require an applicant for licensure or a
licensee to furnish to the board a full set of fingerprints for
purposes of conducting criminal history record checks. The
professional licensing board may obtain criminal history
information from the criminal identification bureau of the West
Virginia state police and the United States federal bureau of
investigation on any applicant for licensure or current licensee.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize
professional licensing boards to obtain fingerprints from license
applicants and licensees for the purpose of obtaining criminal
history record checks, and to authorize boards to obtain criminal
history information on license applicants and licensees.
This section has been completely rewritten; therefore,
strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.