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Read. Follow. Verify.Minnesota House Bill 277 requires trust-fund grant recipients working with children to conduct criminal background checks starting July 1, 2025
Last action · February 10, 2025: Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Finance and PolicySponsor: Josh Heintzeman
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What This Bill Proposed
Certain recipients of money appropriated from the environment and natural resources trust fund required to perform criminal background checks on employees, volunteers, and contractors that work with children.
Organizations receiving state environmental trust funds that provide children's services must implement mandatory background check certifications for staff, contractors, and volunteers interacting with minors, altering their administrative compliance requirements.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
trust fund recipients that are children's service providers
Must certify to the commission that they perform criminal background checks on all employees, contractors, and volunteers who have or may have access to a child.
employees, contractors, and volunteers of trust fund recipients
Subject to mandatory criminal background checks if they have or may have access to a child.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Feb 10, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
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