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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §4010-C is enacted to read:

 
§4010-C.__Criminal history record check

 
The department shall ensure that, prior to the placement of a
child who is in the custody or care of the department with a
custodian, foster parent, guardian ad litem, preadoptive parent
or other person responsible for the child, that custodian, foster
parent, guardian ad litem, preadoptive parent or other person
responsible for the child with whom that child is to be placed
has undergone a criminal history record check.__A child who is in
the custody or care of the department may not be placed with a
person who has a history of abuse or neglect.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill requires a person with whom a child in the custody
or care of the Department of Human Services is to be placed to
undergo a criminal history record check. The department is
responsible for ensuring the completion of the record check. A
child may not be placed with a person who has a history of abuse
or neglect, defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22,
section 4002, subsection 1 as "a threat to a child's health or
welfare by physical, mental or emotional injury or impairment,
sexual abuse or exploitation, deprivation of essential needs or
lack of protection from these, by a person responsible for the
child."


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