9,572 Section 572. 48.686 (2) (ag) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (2) (ag) 3. The requester of a background check under this paragraph shall submit all fees required by the department pursuant to the instructions provided by the department, not to exceed the actual cost of conducting the criminal background check.

9,573 Section 573. 48.686 (2) (am) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (2) (am) (intro.) Upon receipt of a request submitted under par. (a) or (ab), the department shall obtain all of the following with respect to a caregiver or a nonclient resident who is not under 10 years of age the individual who is the subject of the request:

9,574 Section 574. 48.686 (2) (am) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (2) (am) 1. A fingerprint-based or name-based criminal history search from the records maintained by the department of justice.

9,575 Section 575. 48.686 (2) (am) 10. of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (2) (am) 10. A search of the department's criminal background check records.

9,576 Section 576. 48.686 (2) (ar) of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (2) (ar) After receiving a request under par. (a) or (ab), the department shall conduct the criminal background check as expeditiously as possible and shall make a good faith effort to complete all components of the criminal background check no later than 45 days after the date on which the request was submitted.

9,577 Section 577. 48.686 (2) (bd) of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (2) (bd) Notwithstanding par. (am), the department is not required to obtain the information specified in par. (am) 1. to 10., with respect to a person household member under 18 years of age whose background check request under par. (ag) indicates that the person household member is not ineligible to be permitted to reside at a child care program for a reason specified in sub. (4m) (a) 1. to 8. and with respect to whom the department otherwise has no reason to believe that the person is ineligible to be permitted to reside at the child care program for any of those reasons. This paragraph does not preclude the department from obtaining, at its discretion, the information specified in par. (am) 1. to 10. with respect to a person household member described in this paragraph who is a nonclient resident or a potential nonclient resident of a child care program.

9,578 Section 578. 48.686 (3) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (3) (am) Every year or at any time that the department considers appropriate, the department may request the information specified in sub. (2) (am) 1. to 5. for all caregivers under sub. (1) (ag) 2., nonclient residents of such a caregiver, and caregivers under sub. (1) (ag) 1. who have direct contact with clients. For the purposes of this paragraph, “direct contact” means face-to-face physical proximity to a client that affords the opportunity to commit abuse or neglect of a client or to misappropriate the property of a client, noncaregiver employees, and household members.

9,579 Section 579. 48.686 (4m) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (4m) (a) (intro.) Notwithstanding s. 111.335, and except as provided in par. (ad) and sub. (5), the department a licensing entity may not license, or continue or renew the license of, a person to operate a child care center under s. 48.65, the department in a county having a population of 750,000 or more, a county department, or an agency contracted with under s. 48.651 (2) may not certify a child care provider under s. 48.651, a school board may not contract with a person under s. 120.13 (14) issue an approval to operate a child care program to a person, and a child care program may not employ or contract with a caregiver specified in sub. (1) (ag) 1. or noncaregiver employee or permit a household member to reside at the child care program if the department, county department, contracted agency, school board, licensing entity or child care program knows or should have known any of the following:

9,580 Section 580. 48.686 (4m) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (4m) (a) 1. That the person has been convicted of a serious crime or adjudicated delinquent on or after his or her 10th birthday for committing a serious crime or that the person is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition alleging that the person has committed a serious crime on or after his or her 10th birthday.

9,581 Section 581. 48.686 (4m) (a) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

48.686 (4m) (a) 2. That the person is registered or is required to be registered on a state sex offender registry or repository or the national sex offender registry.

9,582 Section 582. 48.686 (4m) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (4m) (a) 5. That the department has determined the person ineligible to be licensed receive an approval to operate a child care center under s. 48.65, to be certified to operate a child care provider under s. 48.651, to contract with a school board under s. 120.13 (14) program, to be employed as a caregiver at by a child care program, or to be a nonclient resident at household member of a child care program.

9,583 Section 583. 48.686 (4m) (a) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (4m) (a) 6. That the person has refused to provide information under sub. (2) (ag), or that the person refused to participate in, cooperate with, or submit required information for the criminal background check described in sub. (2) (am), including fingerprints.

9,584 Section 584. 48.686 (4m) (a) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (4m) (a) 7. That the person knowingly made a materially false statement in connection with the person's criminal background check described in sub. (2).

9,585 Section 585. 48.686 (4m) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:

48.686 (4m) (a) 8. That the person knowingly omitted material information requested in connection with the person's criminal background check conducted under sub. (2).

9,586 Section 586. 48.686 (4m) (ad) of the statutes is amended to read: