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(a) Prior to the date an individual becomes a staff member of the provider; and

(b) Not less than once during each three (3) year period for any currently employed staff member.

133.4 OSSE shall make a good faith effort to provide notification of the results of the criminal background reports to the Facility and the current or prospective staff member within forty-five (45) days of the date the Facility submitted the request the criminal background check.

133.5 Once a Licensee has submitted a request for a prospective staff member’s criminal background check, a prospective staff member may begin to work for the Facility if the prospective staff member is supervised at all times by an individual who, within the three (3) year period before the date of the Facility’s request, received a qualifying background check result.

133.6 A Licensee is not required to submit a request for criminal background check of a staff member if:

(a) The staff member received a background check that meets the requirements in Subsection 132.3(a):

(1) Within three (3) years of the first day of employment at the current Facility; and

(2) While employed by or seeking employment at another Facility (for the purposes of this Subsection, the “first Facility”) within the District;

(b) OSSE provided the first Facility a qualifying background check result, consistent with this chapter, for the staff member; and

(c) The staff member is employed by a Facility within the District, or has been separated from employment from the first Facility for a period of not more than one hundred and eighty (180) consecutive days before the date on which the staff member begins working at the current Facility.

133.7 Unless otherwise provided by law, prospective or current staff members shall provide a Facility and OSSE with all information necessary to enable the Facility and OSSE to promptly obtain the results of the criminal background checks including: