The Department of Health and Environmental Control shall verify that a direct care entity is conducting criminal record checks as required in this article before the department issues a renewal license for the direct care entity. The department shall act as the channeling agency for any federal criminal record checks required by this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 44-7-2940
Department of Health and Environmental Control oversight of criminal record checks by direct care entities; license renewals
2002 Act No. 242, SECTION 1, eff July 1, 2002.
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