SENATE, No. 1024

By Mr. Nuciforo, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1024) of Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr. and William Smitty Pignatelli for legislation relative to criminal background checks for certain employees of camps for children. The Judiciary

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the Year Two Thousand and Five.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF CAMPS FOR CHILDREN

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 172G of Chapter 6 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:-

Foreign workers employed under the United States department of state's J-1 visa program as defined in 22 CFR 62 shall be excluded from the provisions of this section, provided that camps for children obtain criminal records for said foreign workers in their country of primary residence and obtain all available criminal offender record information and juvenile data as found in the court activity record information from the criminal history systems board if they have been employed or ever resided in the United States, which shall be documented by the Department of Homeland Security's Student and Exchange Visitor Information System.