SB 642

Current law prohibits any person who has been convicted, sanctioned, or

adjudicated delinquent on or after his or her 12th birthday for committing certain

violations, including any of the following violations, from being licensed, certified, or

contracted with to provide child care, from being employed or contracted as a

caregiver of a child care provider, or from being permitted to be a nonclient resident

of a premises where child care is provided and prohibits such a person from showing

that he or she has been rehabilitated:

1. For purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child

care, identity theft, robbery, forgery, felony receiving stolen property, felony

insurance fraud, a felony credit card crime, felony theft of telecommunication

services, commercial mobile service, video service, or satellite cable programming,

felony retail theft, a felony computer crime, or a felony crime against a financial

institution (serious property crime).

2. A violation of the background check law, if the violation involves the

provision of false information to the Department of Children and Families, a county

department of human services or social services, an agency contracted with to certify

child care providers for purposes of reimbursement under the Wisconsin Works

program, a school board, or a child care provider (background check violation).

3. An offense involving fraudulent activity as a participant in the Wisconsin

Works program, including as a recipient of a child care subsidy under that program,

or as a recipient of aid to families with dependent children, medical assistance, food

stamp benefits, supplemental security payments, payments for the support of

children of supplemental security income recipients, or health care benefits under

the Badger Care program (public assistance fraud).

This bill reduces the period for which a person who has committed a serious

property crime, a background check violation, or public assistance fraud from being

licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, from being employed or

contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or from being permitted to be a

nonclient resident of a premises where child care is provided from a permanent bar

to a bar of five years after the person was convicted, sanctioned, or adjudicated

delinquent for that crime, violation, or fraud.

The bill also permits a person who is not permanently barred from showing that

he or she has been rehabilitated to reside at a premises where child care is provided

if, in lieu of demonstrating that he or she has been rehabilitated, the person

demonstrates that he or she is not a threat to the safety of the children receiving care

at the premises.