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Board revises application rules, debates mental-health question over legal risk
Summary
Regulations counsel presented revised Title 16 application text to reflect online filings and recent law; counsel recommended removing an overbroad 'ever diagnosed/treated' mental-health question, offering a narrower 'current impairment' alternative because of litigation risk.
Regulations counsel returned revised application regulatory text to the board on Nov. 8 to reflect the agency’s move to online application systems and to conform with recent legislation limiting what criminal-history or health questions agencies may collect.
Counsel highlighted four kinds of documents that must still be submitted outside the online platform (for example, National Data Bank self-query reports and fingerprint results) and walked the board through language added to…
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