Effective - 13 Jul 2020
195.815. Fingerprinting requirements, medical marijuana facilities — definitions. — 1. The department of health and senior services shall require all officers, managers, contractors, employees, and other support staff of licensed or certified medical marijuana facilities, and all owners of such medical marijuana facilities who will have access to the facilities or to the facilities' medical marijuana, to submit fingerprints to the Missouri state highway patrol for the purpose of conducting a state and federal fingerprint-based criminal background check.
2. The department may require that such fingerprint submissions be made as part of a medical marijuana facility application for licensure or certification, a medical marijuana facility application for renewal of licensure or certification, and an individual's application for an identification card authorizing that individual to be an owner, officer, manager, contractor, employee, or other support staff of a medical marijuana facility.
3. Fingerprint cards and any required fees shall be sent to the Missouri state highway patrol's central repository. The fingerprints shall be used for searching the state criminal records repository and shall also be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a federal criminal records search under section 43.540. The Missouri state highway patrol shall notify the department of any criminal history record information or lack of criminal history record information discovered on the individual. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 610.120 to the contrary, all records related to any criminal history information discovered shall be accessible and available to the department.
4. As used in this section, the following words shall mean:
(1) "Employee", any person performing work or service of any kind or character for hire in a medical marijuana facility;
(2) "Medical marijuana facility", an entity licensed or certified by the department of health and senior services, or its successor agency, to acquire, cultivate, process, manufacture, test, store, sell, transport, or deliver medical marijuana;
(3) "Other support staff", any person performing work or service of any kind or character, other than employees, on behalf of a medical marijuana facility if such a person would have access to the medical marijuana facility or its medical marijuana or related equipment or supplies.
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(L. 2020 H.B. 1682 merged with H.B. 1896)
Effective 7-13-20