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Committee questions DOPL as two licensure boards run deficits; residential care docket held for financial plan
Summary
House committee pressed DOPL about deficits at the residential care and nursing home administrator boards and held the residential care administrators' rule docket until Feb. 12 to receive a written plan.
BOISE — Members of the Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee pressed Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses staff on Thursday over persistent deficits in two licensure boards and voted to hold a pending rule until the boards supply a financial recovery plan.
Cecily Metcalfe, board services program manager for DOPL and executive officer for the boards, told the committee that the Idaho Board of Examiners of Residential Care Facility Administrators had a cash balance of negative $109,271.24 as of Sept. 30. She said the board has 440 licensees and that, without changes, the board had been projected to remain deeply negative; with the pending fee adjustments in the rule the board is projected to reach approximately 31% of the five-year rolling average by the end of fiscal year 2028.
"We are working on the same plan. We're looking at efficiencies. We're looking at whether to raise fees or not,"…
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