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DOPL audit flags excessive board cash balances; division seeks inspector pay increases and vehicle replacements
Summary
Legislative auditors flagged elevated cash balances across boards managed by the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses; the division is implementing fee changes and seeks funding for inspector pay increases, vehicles and hardware to address turnover and operational needs.
Legislative auditors and division officials told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on Feb. 6 that the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL) is working to correct elevated cash balances across the professional boards it manages and seeks funding to address inspector turnover and operational needs.
Kellen McGurkin, a budget and policy analyst with Legislative Services, told the committee that DOPL was created by House Bill 318 (2020), consolidating what had been 11 agencies into the current division overseeing roughly 45 boards and commissions and hundreds of thousands of licensees. McGurkin said the division’s budget is entirely dedicated and federal funds; he highlighted receipts and transfers of about $83 million in a recent year, which included…
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