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Special Terms and Conditions 1. Definitions. The words and phrases listed below, as used in this Contract, shall each have the following definitions: a. "Contractor" means the County. b. "Emergency Health Care" means care, services, and supplies for an acute or unexpected health need that requires immediate evaluation or treatment by a health care practitioner. c. "JR means the Juvenile Rehabilitation which is under the DSHS Rehabilitation Administration. d. "JR Bulletins/Policies" means the JR Administrative Policies, which direct JR expectations. e. "Limited Access" means supervised access to a juvenile(s) that is the result of the person's regularly scheduled activities or work duties. f. "Regular Access" means unsupervised access to a juvenile(s), for more than a nominal amount of time that is the result of the person's regularly scheduled activities or work duties. 2. Background Check/Criminal History -In accordance with Chapters 388-700 WAC (JR-Practices & Procedures), 72.05 RCW (Children & Youth Services), 43.20A RCW (DSHS), and by the terms of this contract, Contractor and each of its employees, subcontractors, and/or volunteers who mayor will have regular access to any client/juvenile must be cleared through a JR approved criminal history and background check. In addition, Contractor, each of their employees, subcontractors, and/or volunteers, who mayor will have limited access to any client/juvenile, may be required to be cleared through a JR approved criminal history and background check. By execution of this contract, Contractor affirms that Contractor, each of its employees, subcontractors, and/or volunteers, who mayor will have regular access have not been convicted of any of the following: a. Any felony sex offense as defined in 9.94A.030 RCW (Sentencing Reform Act-Definitions) and 9A.44.130 RCW (Sex Offenses); b. Any crime specified in Chapter 9A.44 RCW (Sex Offenses) when the victim was a juvenile in the custody of or under the jurisdiction of JR; or c. Any violent offense as defined in 9.94A.030 RCW (Sentencing Reform Act-Definitions). Contractor must require that current employees, volunteers, and contracted service providers who are authorized for regular access to a juvenile(s) report any guilty plea or conviction of any of the above offenses. The report must be made to the person's supervisor within seven (7) days of conviction and any person who has reported a guilty plea or conviction for one or more of these offenses must not have regular access to any offender. Contractor shall also document background checks/criminal history clearances for monitoring purposes. 3. Sexual Misconduct -13.40.570 RCW (Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors) states that when the Secretary has reasonable cause to believe that sexual intercourse or sexual contact between the employee of a contractor and an offender has occurred, the Secretary shall require the employee of a contractor to be immediately removed from any employment position which would permit the employee to have any access to any offender. By execution of this contract, contractor affirms that contractor, each of its employees, subcontractors, and/or volunteers are knowledgeable about the requirements of 13.40.570 RCW (Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors) and of the crimes included in 9A.44 RCW (Sex Offenses). DSHS Central Contract Services 5024CS County Consolidated Contract FY16-17 (6-22-2017) 2