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Louisiana OT advisory panel flags statutory-rule mismatches, recommends technical edits
Summary
The Occupational Therapy Advisory Committee identified inconsistencies between state statute and committee rules — including references to NBCOT, AOTA and WFOT, reciprocity language, continuing-education waivers for state employees, and outdated statutory fees — and instructed staff to prepare technical edits and consult Louisiana Department of Health where changes affect state employees.
The Occupational Therapy Advisory Committee (OTEC) of the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners spent much of its Nov. 14 meeting reviewing apparent discrepancies between the language of state law and the committee's recently adopted rules.
Chair Ingrid led a line-by-line read of statutory sections and flagged several areas that the committee said are out of sync with the rules adopted by OTEC. She told the group that Section 3006 reviews requirements for licensure but "it doesn't actually explicitly state that you have to pass [the NBCOT exam] in order to become licensed," calling attention to wording the committee…
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