FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
                       FIRST SESSION, 1997



                                             October 15, 1997


SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENT number        to SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL 651, as amended, with emergency
clause

AMENDMENT sponsored by SENATOR VERNON

     1.  Strike Item No. 10 of Senate Judiciary Committee amendment
and insert in lieu thereof the following:

"Until January 1, 1998 a care provider shall not be subject to
administrative sanctions or penalties for health facilities survey
deficiencies for continuing to employ a care giver for whom the
provider has not received the results of criminal records checks
during the one hundred day period of temporary employment provided for
in Subsections B and C of this section.".




                                                                    
                                     Senator L. Skip Vernon



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