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Senate committee approves a series of allied-health rule dockets with minor edits
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved pending rule dockets for athletic trainers, respiratory therapists, dietitians and naturopathic medical doctors, mainly removing duplicative language and striking inactive renewal fees.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved multiple allied-health pending rule dockets Tuesday after brief presentations from division staff.
Oren Duffin, program director for the Health Professions Bureau, presented consolidated, ZBR-style rewrites for allied-health professions that included athletic trainers (docket 24-3305-2401), respiratory therapists and polysomnographers (docket 24-3306-2401), dietitians (docket 24-3307-2401) and naturopathic medical doctors (docket 24-3304-2401). The rewrites reorganized chapters into consistent sections (legal authority, scope, licensure, practice standards and fees) and removed redundant wording.
Common substantive edits across the dockets included simplifying licensure language, allowing broader continuing-education approvals for respiratory therapists (any CE course germane to the profession), and striking inactive-license renewal fees that were found to conflict with Idaho Code 67-26-14(9). Committee members moved and approved each docket by voice vote with little additional discussion.
Senator Van Orden noted that the respiratory-therapy docket includes a forthcoming presentation on polysomnographers, and the committee agreed to review that item at a later meeting.
All pending allied-health rule chapters were approved and will be filed as final with the modifications noted by the presenters.
