South Carolina § 63-7-2340 - Fingerprint-based background check.
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§ 63-7-2340. Fingerprint-based background check.
(A) A person applying for licensure as a foster parent or for approval for adoption placement, for approval as a prospective legal guardian for a child in the custody of DSS, or seeking employment or a volunteer role with direct, unsupervised contact with children under the age of eighteen in a child-placing agency, qualified residential treatment program or residential facility, or a contracted service provider, and a person eighteen years of age or older, residing in a home in which a person has applied to be licensed as a foster parent or an approved adoption placement, must undergo a state fingerprint-based background check to be conducted by the State Law Enforcement Division to determine any state criminal history and a fingerprint-based background check to be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine any other criminal history.
(B) The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are authorized to retain and store fingerprints for further use in the identification of persons including, but not limited to, use in identifying unsolved latent prints. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are authorized to provide the department with current and future information regarding the fingerprints stored, including arrests, convictions, dispositions, warrants, and other information available to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, such as civil and criminal information.
HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, SECTION 2; 2012 Act No. 238, SECTION 1, eff June 18, 2012; 2024 Act No. 195 (H.3220), SECTION 6, eff May 21, 2024.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment inserted "or for approval for adoption placement" and "or an approved adoption placement" in subsection (A).
2024 Act No. 195, SECTION 6, rewrote the section.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 63-7-2340 ("Fingerprint-based background check.") is part of the South Carolina Code of Laws, the codified statutory law of South Carolina. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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