PURPOSE: This rule establishes guidelines for the
submission of fingerprints by applicants.
(1) Applicants for licensure or registration
required to provide fingerprints to the board shall include:
(A) All pharmacist applicants, including,
applicants by examination, score transfer, reciprocity/transfer, and foreign
graduates;
(B) Drug distributor
license manager-in-charge (unless currently licensed as a pharmacist in the
state of Missouri);
(C) Pharmacy
technician applicants;
(D) Owners
with a ten percent (10%) or more interest in a drug distributor applicant
(non-publicly held companies only); and
(E) Intern pharmacist applicants.
(2) An applicant required to
submit fingerprints pursuant to this rule shall submit fingerprints for the
purpose of conducting a criminal background check by the Missouri State Highway
Patrol (MSHP) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The applicant shall
provide proof of submission of fingerprints to MSHP's approved vendor(s) for
both a MSHP and FBI criminal history background check. Proof shall consist of
any documentation acceptable to the board. Any fees due for a fingerprint
background check shall be paid by the applicant directly to the MSHP or its
approved vendor(s).
(3) Information
collected under this criminal history review will be held as confidential in
accordance with state and federal laws governing the dissemination of criminal
history information.
(4) The board
may require an applicant to be fingerprinted again and pay any required
fingerprinting fees, if the application process is not completed within six (6)
months of the board's receipt of the application.
(5) The board may, in the course of an
investigation of a licensee, require that fingerprints be submitted for a
criminal history background check as provided for in this rule.
Notes
20 CSR 2220-7.090
AUTHORITY: sections
338.020,
338.040,
338.070,
and 338.280, RSMo 2000, and sections
338.035
and
338.140,
RSMo Supp. 2012.* Original rule filed Jan. 10 , 2013, effective Aug. 30, 2013.
*Original authority: 338.020, RSMo 1939, amended 1947,
1949, 1981, 1990; 338.040, RSMo 1939, amended 1961, 1969, 1981, 1990; 338.070,
RSMo 1939, amended 1947, 1953, 1961, 1969, 1981, 1985, 1997; 338.280, RSMo
1951, amended 1971, 1981; 338.035, RSMo 1990, amended 1993, 1995, 2007; and
338.140, RSMo 1939, amended 1981, 1989, 1997,
2011.