Subcommittee advances dietitian licensure compact work but pauses on FBI background-check language

The House Executive Departments and Administration subcommittee took testimony on House Bill 145, which would adopt a dietitian licensure compact and add background-check requirements for dietitians. Lawmakers and stakeholders largely supported the compact but raised technical concerns about the bill’s background-check language, particularly how FBI criminal-history records would be requested and received.

Representative Grotta, sponsor of the dietitian compact, said many dietitians testified in favor of the compact and that the profession is distinct from informal “nutritionist” services. Kate Feiffel, a dietitian who said she works at Concord Hospital and represents the New Hampshire chapter of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, noted interest in being among early states to join the compact so New Hampshire could…