I ump in Section VI in New York (Western NY). The legislation was called Project SAVE. This site may provide some help:
http://www.mhric.org/scss/save.html
The fingerprinting and background checks are just part of this bill. Look in the "Components of SAVE", page three, for a synopsis. (Sorry, I couldn't cut and paste it into here)
[Edited by blue_ape on Jul 11th, 2005 at 01:57 PM]