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Senate commerce committee approves multiple licensing rule dockets; geologists, contractors and boards see fee or rule adjustments
Summary
The Senate Commerce and Human Resources Committee approved a series of rule dockets affecting professional geologists, contractors, real estate brokers, and several licensing boards, including fee adjustments and deletions of rule language duplicative of statute.
The Idaho Senate Commerce and Human Resources Committee on Jan. 21, 2025 approved several licensing and rulemaking dockets that change fee schedules, remove duplicative rule language and update licensing chapters across multiple boards.
Michelle Byrd, investigations program manager for the Building Construction and Real Estate Bureau at the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL), presented multiple dockets that primarily renumber and streamline language across boards. Byrd said the Board of Registration for Professional Geologists docket, 24-0401-2401, renumbers sections for consistency, removes language duplicative of statute, aligns Idaho rules with model law from the Association of State Boards of Geology (ASBOG), and increases the annual renewal fee from $60 to $100 "to bridge the gap between expenditures and revenues, which currently…
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