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Deputy Secretary of State asks for an OPR executive officer to speed mental-health licensure and consolidation
Summary
Lauren Hibbert, Deputy Secretary of State, urged funding for a new Office of Professional Regulation executive officer to consolidate mental-health licensure functions, shorten application times and lead statutory and rules revisions; she requested $170,000 from the general fund for salary and benefits.
Lauren Hibbert, Deputy Secretary of State, told the committee on Feb. 19 that the Office of Professional Regulation (OPR) is proposing creation of an executive officer position to consolidate and modernize mental-health licensure in Vermont.
Hibbert said OPR regulates 53 professions and that the 17 mental-health licenses combined account for about 10,000 licensees. "We would have a consolidated mental health board, with only psychologists being excluded from that board" in the initial consolidation, she said, adding that psychologists would remain licensed under their own board but that the executive officer would oversee mental-health professions broadly.
Hibbert said the executive officer would lead a…
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