Fingerprinting requirements, medical marijuana facilities
People who work at, own, or volunteer for a medical marijuana facility in Missouri have to give their fingerprints to the state highway patrol. The fingerprints are used to check for a criminal history, both in Missouri and with the FBI. The health department gets told about anything found in that background check.
195.815. Fingerprinting requirements, medical marijuana facilities — definitions. — 1. The shall require all employees, s, owners, and volunteers of medical marijuana facilities to submit fingerprints to the Missouri state patrol for the purpose of conducting a state and federal fingerprint-based criminal background check.
2. The may require that such fingerprint submissions be made as part of a medical marijuana facility , a medical marijuana facility renewal application, and an individual's application for and of an authorizing that individual to be an employee, contractor, owner, or volunteer of a medical marijuana facility.
3. Fingerprint cards and any required fees shall be sent to the Missouri state highway patrol's . The fingerprints shall be used for searching the state criminal s 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 or lack of criminal history record information discovered on the individual. the of section 610.120 to the contrary, all records related to any criminal history discovered shall be accessible and available to the department.
4. As used in this section, the following words shall mean:
(1) "Contractor", a person performing work or of any kind for a medical marijuana facility in accordance with a contract with that facility;
(2) "Employee", a person performing work or service of any kind or character for hire in a medical marijuana facility;
(3) "Medical marijuana facility", an licensed or by the department of health and senior services to acquire, cultivate, , , test, store, sell, transport, or medical marijuana.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2020 H.B. 1682 merged with H.B. 1896, A.L. 2022 H.B. 2331)
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