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DOPL tells JFAC it’s cutting costs, using fee holidays and targeted raises to rebalance board funds
Summary
The Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL) reported consolidation progress, staffing and fee strategies to bring board cash balances to a 30%–150% five-year rolling-average target, noted inspector pay increases to reduce vacancies, and defended a request to replace nine vehicles while arguing fee reallocation across boards would be unpopular with licensees.
Legislative analysts and the administrator of the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL) briefed the JFAC committee on Feb. 24 on consolidation, fund balances and efforts to align licensing-board accounts with statutory targets.
Frances Lippitt, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, summarized DOPL’s structure since a 2020 executive order that consolidated several licensing agencies. She reported the division now oversees four bureaus and dozens of boards, has roughly 267.2 authorized full-time-equivalent positions, and uses a state regulatory fund plus two miscellaneous revenue funds for logging and industrial safety programs. Lippitt said the division follows a practice—codified last session as section 67-26, Idaho Code—of reviewing…
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