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Committee approves pending rule updates for multiple allied‑health professions, removes inactive renewal fees
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Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved pending rule chapters for athletic trainers, respiratory therapists (including polysomnographers), dietitians and naturopathic doctors; the rules generally reorganize chapters and strike inactive license renewal fees to align with Idaho Code 67-26-14(9).
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved a set of pending rule dockets that update licensing and fee language for allied‑health professions that now advise the Idaho Board of Medicine.
Orin Duffin, program director for the Health Professions Bureau and executive officer for the Allied Health Advisory Board, presented the rule dockets for athletic trainers (24-3305-2401), respiratory therapists (24-3306-2401), dietitians (24-3307-2401) and naturopathic medical doctors (24-3304-2401). Duffin said the advisory boards conducted public meetings, negotiated rule‑making hearings and public hearings and that no comments were received in the published comment periods for these dockets.
Common themes across the dockets included reorganizing chapters to a consistent division format (legal authority, scope, licensure, practice standards, fees), simplifying or clarifying licensure and continuing‑education language, and striking inactive license renewal fees that were inconsistent with Idaho Code 67‑26‑14 subsection 9.
On respiratory therapy rules, Duffin also noted a substantive change to continuing education: licensees may take any continuing education course deemed germane to the profession rather than only board‑approved CEUs. He said the fee tables were consolidated and language added to clarify dual licensure/permit fees.
Actions and votes: each docket was moved and approved by voice vote: - Athletic trainers (docket 24-3305-2401): motion by Senator Van Orden; approved by voice vote. - Respiratory therapists (docket 24-3306-2401): motion by Senator Van Orden; approved by voice vote. Senators noted a planned presentation on polysomnographers at a subsequent meeting. - Dietitians (docket 24-3307-2401): motion by Senator Blaylock; approved by voice vote. - Naturopathic medical doctors (docket 24-3304-2401): motion by Senator Van Orden; approved by voice vote.
Duffin said the revisions are primarily organizational and administrative, intended to remove redundant language, simplify rules and align fee practices with statute. Committee members approved the dockets without amendment.
