JELCAR approves licensure form changes, adopt-a-park rules and shortens online registration processing time

At its June meeting, the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (JELCAR) approved several agency rule actions affecting professional licensing, a volunteer park adoption program and off-highway recreational vehicle (OHRV) and snowmobile registrations.

The committee voted to adopt the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (OPLC) rule amendment 25-47 addressing application forms used in licensure and discipline proceedings. The agency said the form will mostly be used online and will use logic so that applicants who check a "prefer not to answer" box are routed past inapplicable questions. Dean, identified in the meeting as executive director at OPLC, told the committee the agency is integrating technological solutions "so anyone within a technical profession...if there's questions that absolutely do not apply, it will be there. It could expand, but it will...be kind of collapsed, if you will, in that application." The committee approved the item by voice vote (moved: Sen. Lang; second: Sen. Innes). The motion outcome: adopted.

The committee next adopted Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) rule 25-51 to implement the statutory Adopt-a-Park program. DNCR said it had been operating the program and using forms since at least 2019 but only recently learned the statute…