Fingerprint Requirements

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. 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.