(a) An executive branch agency head, with input from the CISO, may require employees or contractors of executive branch agencies, whose duties include collection, maintenance or access to personal information, to be fingerprinted and to submit to a state and national criminal history record check at least every five years.

(b) The fingerprints shall be used to identify the employee and to determine whether the employee or other such person has a record of criminal history in this state or another jurisdiction. The executive director or agency head shall submit the fingerprints to the Kansas bureau of investigation and the federal bureau of investigation for a state and national criminal history record check. The executive director or agency head may use the information obtained from fingerprinting and the criminal history record check for purposes of verifying the identity of the employee or other such person and in the official determination of the qualifications and fitness of the employee or other such person to work in the position with access to personal information.

(c) Local and state law enforcement officers and agencies shall assist the executive director or agency head in the taking and processing of fingerprints of employees or other such persons. Local law enforcement officers and agencies may charge a fee as reimbursement for expenses incurred in taking and processing fingerprints under this section, to be paid by the executive branch agency employing or contracting the individual required to submit to fingerprinting and a criminal history record check.