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Committee approves temporary rule lowering veterinary licensure fees by 20%
Summary
The House Agriculture Affairs Committee approved temporary rule docket 243801-2501, which contains an updated veterinary licensing fee table and language allowing future fee decreases; the Board of Veterinary Medicine voted to reduce fees by 20 percent as part of an effort to align cash balances with legislative intent language.
The House Agriculture Affairs Committee approved temporary rule docket 243801-2501, adopting an updated fee table for the Idaho Board of Veterinary Medicine and approving language that would allow the board to reduce licensure fees in the future.
Katie Stewart, bureau chief for the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, presented the docket on behalf of the Board of Veterinary Medicine. Stewart said last year’s legislation (intent language in Senate Bill 1442) required the division to review board cash balances and take steps to lower license costs where appropriate. “The Board of Veterinary Medicine updated their rules to include ‘not more than’ language, allowing this Board to easily decrease fees in the future and at this time the Board has voted to reduce their fees by 20%,” Stewart said.
Representative Gerald Raymond moved to approve docket number 243801-2501. The committee approved the motion by voice vote; the transcript shows the motion recorded as passed.
Practical effect: the temporary rules change the fee table and authorize a maximum-fee approach that enables future fee reductions without repeating the full rulemaking action. The rule packet cited the Board’s decision to lower fees by 20% in accordance with the division’s cash-balance review. The committee approved the docket; the temporary rules proceed through the administrative-review process as outlined in statute and agency rulemaking procedures.
No roll-call tally was recorded in the committee transcript; the committee recorded the motion as passing by voice vote.
