36-38-25. Criminal background checks of assistant behavior analysts and paraprofessionals.

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Any assistant behavior analyst or paraprofessional who delivers applied behavior analysis services under the extended authority and direction of a behavior analyst shall submit to a criminal background investigation, by means of fingerprint checks by the Division of Criminal Investigation. The behavior analyst who supervises the assistant behavior analyst or paraprofessional is responsible for any fees charged for the cost of fingerprinting or the criminal background investigation as required by this section.

Each criminal record provided to the board under this section is confidential. The board may use the records only in determining an assistant behavior analyst's or paraprofessional's eligibility to be supervised by an applied behavior analyst for the delivery of applied behavior analysis.