Section 53G-7-904 - Internship programs - Criminal background checks(1)(a) A public or private school may enter into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer.(b) The public or private school described in Subsection (1)(a) shall ensure that the internship safety agreement requires a cooperating employer to: (i) ensure that an adult officer or employee of the cooperating employer is not intentionally alone with an intern for any significant amount of time during the intern's activities;(ii) maintain compliance with all applicable state and federal laws relating to workplace and student safety, privacy, and welfare; and(iii) provide a safe, educational, courteous, and welcoming professional environment that is free of harassment or discriminatory conduct that may result in a hostile, intimidating, abusive, offensive, or oppressive learning environment.(2)(a) If a public or private school has not entered into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer, officers and employees of the cooperating employer who will be given significant unsupervised access to a student in connection with the student's activities as an intern shall submit to criminal background checks under Section 53G-11-402.(b) If a public or private school has entered into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer, officers and employees of the cooperating employer are exempt from the criminal background check requirement described in Section 53G-11-402.Amended by Chapter 374, 2020 General Session ,§ 2, eff. 5/12/2020.Renumbered from § 53A-29-104 and amended by Chapter 3, 2018 General Session ,§ 231, eff. 1/24/2018.Amended by Chapter 389, 2015 General Session ,§ 22, eff. 7/1/2015.Enacted by Chapter 73, 1996 General Session