{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-12-1.6-2","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 12-1.6-2","heading":"Long-term healthcare workers — High-risk Medicaid providers and personal care attendants.","body":"The department of attorney general shall maintain an electronic web-based system to assist facilities, licensed under chapters 17, 17.4, 17.7.1 of title 23 or § 23-1-52, and the executive office of health and human services under §§ 42-7.2-18.1 and 42-7.2-18.3, required to check relevant registries and conduct national criminal records checks of routine contact patient employees, personal care attendants, and high-risk providers. The department of attorney general shall provide for an automated notice, as authorized in § 12-1.6-1, to those facilities or to the executive office of health and human services if a routine-contact patient employee, personal care attendant, or high-risk provider is subsequently convicted of a disqualifying offense, as described in the relevant licensing statute or in §§ 42-7.2-18.2 and 42-7.2-18.4. The department of attorney general may charge a facility a one-time, set-up fee of up to one hundred dollars ($100) for access to the electronic web-based system under this section.","path":["Title 12 Criminal Procedure","Chapter 1.6 National Criminal Records Check System"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE12/12-1.6/12-1.6-2.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T19:55:22Z","sha256":"76b9ef5a3e27a3844c4375a97bf18ac0d7cdb9ac7d128bfbfdfa1bfa80f02964","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-12-1.6-1","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-12-1.6-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}