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HB3124: Felons; employer responsibility to give notice when certain offenders work near children.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-370.5 as follows:
§ 18.2-370.5. Employer responsibility to give notice when certain offenders work near children; penalty.
Every employer who (i) employs an employee who has been convicted of a felony offense occurring on or after July 1, 2007, where such felony offense requires registration pursuant to § 9.1-902, and (ii) has actual knowledge of such employee's conviction, shall give prior notice to any facility he knows or has reason to know is a school or child day center prior to sending the employee to any worksite that is within 100 feet of the school or child day center. A violation of this section is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
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