BSRB discusses multiple regulatory and licensing changes including expedited reviews, unprofessional conduct revisions and education definitions

Board members spent the latter portion of the meeting reviewing a slate of proposed regulatory and policy changes affecting licensure, supervision and discipline.

Continuing education and record retention: Advisory committees recommended updates to continuing-education language across professions, including modernizing references to digital recordings, standardizing a three‑year record‑retention requirement after renewal, and removing an underused self‑directed learning category. The board gave consensus to move revised continuing-education regulations forward for public comment.

Unprofessional conduct: Staff and advisory committees reviewed decades-old unprofessional-conduct regulations. The board discussed whether to standardize language across professions on topics such as discrimination, social media/confidentiality, impaired practice and sexual or physical relationships with clients. Several committees recommended tightening some standards (for example, some proposed making sexual relationships with former clients…