NRS432B.625. Background checks required before entering into agreement with relative for assistance pursuant to Program.

      1.  An agency which provides child welfare services shall, before entering into an agreement for assistance pursuant to the Program, obtain from appropriate law enforcement agencies information on the background and personal history of each relative of a child who seeks assistance pursuant to the Program and each resident of the home of such relative who is 18 years of age or older, to determine whether the person investigated has been arrested for or convicted of any crime.

      2.  The relative and each resident of the home of such relative must submit to the agency which provides child welfare services or its approved designee:

      (a) A complete set of fingerprints and written permission authorizing the agency or its approved designee to forward those fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report to enable the agency or its approved designee to conduct an investigation pursuant to this subsection; and

      (b) Written permission to conduct a child abuse and neglect screening.

      (Added to NRS by 2011, 540)