TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 7. Regulation and Construction of Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities, 31-7-1 through 31-7-412.

ARTICLE 11 FACILITY LICENSING AND EMPLOYEE RECORDS CHECKS

31-7-254. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Transmission of director's fingerprints to Georgia Crime Information Center for review; notification to department of findings; retention of fingerprints.

After issuing a temporary license based upon a preliminary records check determination of the director that is satisfactory under Code Section 31-7-253, the department shall transmit to GCIC both sets of fingerprints and the records search fee from that director's records check application. Upon receipt thereof, GCIC shall promptly transmit one set of fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a search of bureau records and an appropriate report and shall retain the other set and promptly conduct a search of its records and records to which it has access. Within 75 days after receiving fingerprints acceptable to GCIC, the application, and fee, GCIC shall notify the department in writing of any derogatory finding, including but not limited to any criminal record, of the fingerprint records check or if there is no such finding. If the department is participating in the program described in subparagraph (a)(1)(F) of Code Section 35-3-33, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall be authorized to retain fingerprints obtained pursuant to this Code section for such program and the department shall notify the individual whose fingerprints were taken of the parameters of such retention.

(Code 1981, §31-7-254, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 952, § 2; Ga. L. 2002, p. 942, § 4; Ga. L. 2018, p. 507, § 2-8/SB 336.)

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, in this Code section, in the first sentence, deleted "satisfactory" preceding "preliminary records check" near the middle and inserted "that is satisfactory" in the middle; and added the fourth sentence.