Requiring all applicants for teaching licenses and certificates and employees of a school district or public innovative district to submit to a criminal history record check and creating the criminal history record check reimbursement fund for certain state and criminal history record checks conducted by the Kansas department for aging and disability services.

Summary

The bill would make fingerprinting and state and national criminal history checks mandatory for anyone applying for a Kansas teaching license or working in a position with direct student contact. Fees for the checks could be paid by the individual or by the employing school district, and a new state fund would reimburse the Department for certain background checks. The measure also updates licensing disqualification rules and applies to public innovative districts, but it died in committee.

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