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Committee hears bills to restrict 'moral turpitude' exclusions and create review process for licensing denials
Summary
Sen. Garner's SB264 would require licensing boards to list job-relevant felonies, create a five-year limit on using nonviolent convictions to deny licenses, and allow applicants to petition boards for preapproval; state police expressed resource and public-safety concerns and the sponsor agreed to draft amendments.
Senator Garner presented Senate Bill 264, a broad occupational-licensing reform aimed at replacing vague disqualifying standards such as "moral turpitude" with board-level lists of specific felonies that are directly relevant to each occupation. "First, it requires a licensed entity, a board, a commission, or whoever give an occupational license out, to produce rules that list specific felonies that can preclude someone from getting an occupational license," Garner said.
The bill has three primary elements: specificity (boards must list directly related convictions), a five-year timeliness provision after…
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