AR HB1615

Creates exemption from employment disqualification for healthcare service providers for individuals convicted of specific nonviolent offenses including theft by receiving, forgery, financial identity fraud, resisting arrest, criminal impersonation, interference with visitation or custody, prostitution-related offenses, and nonviolent drug offenses under the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.

Requires service provider to want to employ the person and the person to remain continuously employed with that same service provider.

Requires person to have completed probation or parole supervision, paid all court-ordered fees, fines, and restitution, and fully complied with all court orders related to the conviction.

Applies exemption only to employees of long-term care facilities licensed by the Office of Long-Term Care, intermediate care facilities licensed by the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services, and child care facilities licensed by the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education.

Requires person to have no true or founded report of child maltreatment or adult maltreatment in a central registry and prohibits any subsequent convictions in the covered offense categories after employment begins.