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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 legislation is passed, the Lead Agency will continue to do its due diligence to obtain background checks (without fingerprints) if a provider has lived outside of state within the past 5 years. The Lead Agency will either reach out to the state or the provider understands they will be responsible to obtain the information above from the previous State(s) at which they resided. The Provider further understands and agrees that any negative findings from the above background checks may result in the immediate termination of this Agreement.

Nebraska CCDF and Licensing Programs with the Lead Agency has been receiving on- site technical assistance support and is working to find a solution to conducting Lead Agency initiated interstate checks.

b) Has the interstate sex offender registry or repository check been put in place for all current (existing) child care staff? Yes

Describe, if applicable, any differences in the process for existing staff than what was described for new staff and provide citations.

No. (Waiver request allowed. See Appendix A). Describe the status of conducting the interstate sex offender registry or repository 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 Page 236 of 314