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No. (Waiver request allowed. See Appendix A). Describe the status of

conducting the FBI fingerprint check for current (existing) child care staff including: -- Efforts to date to complete the requirement for all existing child care staff in licensed, regulated or registered programs -- Efforts to date to complete the requirement for all existing child care staff in other programs eligible to receive CCDF services (e.g. license-exempt CCDF eligible providers) -- Key challenges to fully implementing this requirements -- Strategies used to address these challenges Describe: Nebraska does not meet the criteria to be eligible for a waiver. A legislative proposal was submitted in 2017 to make a change in current state statute, requiring fingerprinting, but did not advance out of committee. State law (Nebraska revised state statute 68-1206) passed on 5/30/19 out of the 2019 Legislative session. Beginning 10/1/19, individuals who are 18 years of age and older who are new child care staff members in any of these settings or new residents in Family Child Care Homes are required to submit fingerprints for a national criminal history record check. The individual submitting prints is required to pay the actual cost of the fingerprinting and processing. Child care staff members who were employed by a child care provider prior to 10/1/19, or individuals who resided in a family child care home prior to 10/1/19, are required to submit fingerprints for a national criminal history record check by 10/1/21.

The lead agency is closing working the State Patrol on developing a strategic implementation plan for all existing providers over the next 2 years (10/1/19 through 10/1/21), per law.

Nebraska revised state statute 68-1206 only incudes providers who are licensed. The Lead Agency has already drafted legislation for the 2020 Legislation Session starting January 2020. This legislation will allow authority to conduct national criminal history record checks on license-exempt providers and applicable household members. Until this is passed, Nebraska will continue to conduct checks that include in-state criminal repository (not using fingerprints) with Nebraska Data Exchange Network for each provider and household member age 13 or older residences, the public state website for registered sex offenders, adult/child central registry checks, and out of state checks Nebraska Page 226 of 314