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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77611</law_id><section_number>54.1-3005.1</section_number><catch_line>Criminal history background checks</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="30">Nursing</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Board of Nursing</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall require each applicant for licensure as a <span class="dictionary">practical nurse</span>, <span class="dictionary">registered nurse</span>, or licensed <span class="dictionary">massage therapist</span> to submit fingerprints and provide personal descriptive information to be forwarded along with his fingerprints through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information regarding the applicant. The cost of fingerprinting and the criminal history record search shall be paid by the applicant.
		The Central Criminal Records Exchange shall forward the results of the state and federal criminal history record search to the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, which shall be a governmental entity. If an applicant is denied licensure because of information appearing on his criminal history record and the applicant disputes the information upon which the denial was based, the Central Criminal Records Exchange shall, upon written request, furnish to the applicant the procedures for obtaining a copy of the criminal history record from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Criminal Records Exchange. The information shall not be disseminated except as provided in this section.</p></section></text><history>2015, c. 307; 2016, c. 324.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
