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House Business Committee approves updated mortician rules, raises biennial licensing fees
Summary
The committee approved revisions to the Idaho State Board of Morticians rules that reorganize chapters, clarify trainee supervision, change continuing education timing, require pre-licensure inspections, remove duplicative provisions, and shift to biennial licensing with roughly 20% fee increases to meet cash-balance guidance from last year.
John Price, bureau chief for the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL) occupational licensing bureau, presented the State Board of Morticians’ pending rules to the House Business Committee on Jan. 21. The board submitted a consolidated rewrite intended to remove redundancies, align rules with statute, and address the board’s fund balance requirements.
Key changes approved by the committee included: removing language duplicative of statute for resident trainee requirements; changing the trainee supervision requirement to require a trainee to be under a mortician’s supervision for any 12 months within a three-year…
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