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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77679</law_id><section_number>22.1-289.037</section_number><catch_line>Revocation or denial of renewal based on background checks; failure to obtain background check</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-389</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14.1">Early Childhood Care and Education</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Background Checks</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Superintendent</span> may revoke or deny renewal of a license or registration of a <span class="dictionary">child day program</span> or <span class="dictionary">family day system</span>, and a <span class="dictionary">family day system</span> may revoke the approval of a <span class="dictionary">family day home</span>, if the <span class="dictionary">child day program</span>, <span class="dictionary">family day system</span>, or approved <span class="dictionary">family day home</span> has knowledge that a person specified in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Licensed child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems; employment for compensation or use as volunteers of persons convicted of or found to have committed certain offenses prohibited; national background check required; penalty" href="/22.1-289.035/">22.1-289.035</a> or <a class="law" title="Background check upon application for licensure, registration, or approval as child day center, family day home, or family day system; penalty" href="/22.1-289.036/">22.1-289.036</a> required to have a background check (i) has been convicted of any barrier <span class="dictionary">crime</span> as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="National criminal background checks by businesses and organizations regarding employees or volunteers providing care to children or the elderly or disabled" href="/19.2-392.02/">19.2-392.02</a> or (ii) is the subject of a founded complaint of child abuse or neglect within or outside the Commonwealth, and such person has not been granted a <span class="dictionary">waiver</span> by the <span class="dictionary">Superintendent</span> pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Child day programs and family day systems; criminal conviction and waiver" href="/22.1-289.038/">22.1-289.038</a> or is not subject to the exceptions in subsection G of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Licensed child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems; employment for compensation or use as volunteers of persons convicted of or found to have committed certain offenses prohibited; national background check required; penalty" href="/22.1-289.035/">22.1-289.035</a>, and the agency or home refuses to separate such person from employment or service or allows the household member to continue to reside in the home. <a id="paragraph-278631" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-289.037/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Failure to obtain background checks pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Licensed child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems; employment for compensation or use as volunteers of persons convicted of or found to have committed certain offenses prohibited; national background check required; penalty" href="/22.1-289.035/">22.1-289.035</a> and <a class="law" title="Background check upon application for licensure, registration, or approval as child day center, family day home, or family day system; penalty" href="/22.1-289.036/">22.1-289.036</a> shall be grounds for denial, <span class="dictionary">revocation</span>, or termination of a license, registration, or approval or any <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or its agents or designees or a local <span class="dictionary">department</span> of social services to provide child care services to clients of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or its agents or designees or the local <span class="dictionary">department</span> of social services. No violation shall occur if the <span class="dictionary">family day system</span>, <span class="dictionary">family day home</span>, or <span class="dictionary">child day center</span> has applied for the background check timely and it has not been obtained due to administrative delay. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>. <a id="paragraph-278632" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-289.037/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2020, cc. 860, 861.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
