HB 7 -- In-Home Services and Home Health Agency Employees Co-Sponsors: Sutherland, Crowell, Jetton, Wright This bill deletes the provision that makes it a class A misdemeanor for a home health agency or in-home services provider to knowingly employ any person who refuses to register or is listed on any background checklist relating to the Family Care Safety Registry and replaces the provision with one that makes it a class A misdemeanor for these agencies to employ such persons to provide in-home services or home health services. The bill also amends provisions relating to the ability of the Department of Health and Senior Services to promulgate rules to waive hiring restrictions based on the department's employee disqualification list. The bill has an emergency clause.