2.2-1201.1 - Criminal background checks for certain positions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 2.2-1201.1. Criminal background checks for certain positions.

The Department shall develop a statewide personnel policy for designatingpositions within each state agency as sensitive. Such policy shall providefor a state agency to require any final candidate for a position that hasbeen designated as sensitive to submit to fingerprinting and to providepersonal descriptive information to be forwarded along with the applicant'sfingerprints through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the FederalBureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining criminal historyinformation regarding such applicant.

For purposes of this section, "sensitive positions" shall mean thosepositions generally described as directly responsible for the health, safetyand welfare of the general populace or protection of critical infrastructures.

(2003, c. 731.)