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Committee adopts residential care facility rules, approves genetic counselor rules with targeted rejection
Summary
The House Health and Welfare Committee accepted rule dockets for the Idaho Board of Examiners of Residential Care Facility Administrators and for genetic counselors. The committee accepted the residential care rules and approved genetic counselor rules while rejecting an incorporated section of the National Society of Genetic Counselors’ code of
The House Health and Welfare Committee handled multiple rule dockets at the start of its Feb. 12 meeting, approving the Board of Examiners of Residential Care Facility Administrators rules and acting on genetic counselor rules that included an incorporated ethics code.
Committee action and background - Docket 204191-012-401 (rules for the Board of Examiners of Residential Care Facility Administrators): Katie Stewart of the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses explained the board’s negative cash balance and the division’s plan to combine the residential care administrators board with the nursing home administrators board (cited in testimony as House Bill 28) and later seek a statutory increase in the fee cap so the board can set higher license fees within rule. The committee accepted the docket by voice vote. - Docket 2424000-401 (genetic counselors): The committee approved the rule changes but separately moved to reject section 2, item 3 of an incorporated-by-reference National Society of Genetic Counselors Code of Ethics. Representative Levitt and others said the incorporated ethics language conflicted with Idaho’s code of ethics; the committee voted to reject that section and adopted the remaining rule changes.
Why it matters: The residential care docket included a committee request and division follow-up to address a board cash shortfall via board consolidation and fee-cap changes. The genetic counselor action shows the committee exercising its authority to approve rules while carving out a specific incorporated ethics provision it found inconsistent with state standards.
Votes and next steps - Residential care docket: accepted by voice vote; division to return with statutory fee-cap request and negotiated rulemaking on fee increases. - Genetic counselors: rules approved; committee rejected the specified incorporated ethics section and will include the approved rules in the concurrent resolution and subsequent rule-process steps.
Ending: Both dockets were concluded in committee and the chair moved to the next agenda items; staff and division representatives indicated planned follow-up steps for fee and rule changes.
