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Senate passes annual Office of Professional Regulation bill expanding licensing rules and authorizing a funding study
Summary
The Senate passed H870, updating licensure rules across multiple professions, adding manicurists and aestheticians to cosmetology chapters, clarifying nursing and radiology provisions, and directing the Office of Professional Regulation to study alternative funding models.
The Vermont Senate on voice votes passed H870, the annual bill updating professions and occupations regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation (OPR).
Senator from Washington, reporting the Government Operations committee, said the bill expands OPR’s authority to use civil penalty funds beyond board member education and training so the agency can, for example, offset investigation costs that generate the penalties. He said the committee also widened the definition of unprofessional conduct to include impeding an investigation…
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