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House amends and passes HB 37 to tidy licensing rules; expands hunters-and-guides board and restores 2:1 apprenticeship ratio
Summary
The House amended and passed HB 37, a division-of-professional-licensing 'cleanup' bill that standardizes background-check language, expands the hunters-and-guides board from three to five members with two non-licensed seats, and restores a 2:1 apprentice-to-trainer ratio in the nail technician apprenticeship section.
Representative James A. Dunnigan presented House Bill 37 as the Division of Professional Licensing’s annual cleanup bill, saying it standardizes criminal-background language for interstate compacts, removes outdated regulation and fixes an inadvertent 2016 change to apprenticeship language.
On the floor, Representative Mike Schultz moved Amendment No. 1 addressing the Hunters and Guides outfitters board. Schultz said the change would increase the board from three to five members and allow the two additional members to be individuals who do not hold a license regulated by the board, to broaden representation. Colleagues questioned whether the additional members would "have to be licensed"; the motion’s sponsor and the amendment’s maker characterized the change as a friendly one and the sponsor accepted it.
Representative Kristofferson successfully proposed a substitute motion to change the amendment wording from "may not" to "shall not," ensuring the two added seats could not hold a license regulated by the chapter; the floor adopted the substitute motion. Representative Dunnigan also addressed a separate section that unintentionally changed the nail technician apprenticeship ratio in 2016 and said HB 37 returns that provision to a 2-to-1 apprenticeship trainer-to-apprentice arrangement.
Summation was waived and the Speaker announced voting closed on HB 37 as amended; the transcript reports: "House Bill 37, having received 30 73 yes votes, 0 no votes, passes this body as amended, and will be transmitted to the Senate for its consideration." (Transcript formatting of the tally is unclear in places; the floor announcement indicates the bill passed and will go to the Senate.)
The bill as amended makes administrative and statutory clarifications for multiple licensing regimes, adds two non-licensed seats to the Hunters and Guides board, and restores the intended apprenticeship trainer-to-apprentice ratio for nail technicians.
