TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 56

PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES

39-5604.  Health and background checks. The director shall require providers to obtain health tests or screens, criminal background and nurse’s aide registry checks, and licenses and/or certifications necessary to protect the health, person and property of the participant for any personal assistant acting as an employee, agent, or contractor of a provider. He may deny provider status or revoke that status when a provider or an employee, agent, or contractor of a provider, is found to endanger the health, person or property of the participant.

History:

[(39-5604) I.C., sec. 39-A4704, as added by 1981, ch. 65, sec. 1, p. 93; am. and redesignated 1990, ch. 326, sec. 4, p. 892; am. 2000, ch. 274, sec. 125, p. 863.]