Legislature(2001 - 2002)
2002-02-04 House Journal
Full Journal pdf2002-02-04 House Journal Page 2138 HB 343 The Labor & Commerce Committee has considered: HOUSE BILL NO. 343 "An Act extending the termination date of the Board of Professional Counselors." and recommends it be replaced with: 2002-02-04 House Journal Page 2139 CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 343(L&C) "An Act extending the termination date of the Board of Professional Counselors; and relating to licensing of professional counselors." The report was signed by Representative Murkowski, Chair, with the following individual recommendations: Do pass (2): Meyer, Murkowski No recommendation (3): Rokeberg, Hayes, Crawford A House Labor & Commerce Committee letter of intent for CSHB 343(L&C), signed by Representative Murkowski, Chair, and Representative Halcro, Vice Chair, appears below: "It is the intent of the House Labor and Commerce Committee that the operations and regulatory oversight responsibilities of the following professional licensing boards be combined into one board: 1. Board of Professional Counselors 2. Board of Marital and Family Therapy 3. Board of Psychologist and Psychological Associate Examiners 4. Board of Social Work Examiners To help ensure an effective transition, the four boards are to work cooperatively to develop an appropriate proposed statute for this new combined board. Such a proposed statute should be designed to accomplish the intent of the committee to combine the operations of the boards while meeting the individual regulatory and oversight responsibilities of each current separate licensing board. If the boards involved would like to propose alternative combinations of how to combine the four boards, they are encouraged to also draft alternative proposed statutes. Jointly, the chair of each board is to report on their progress in both January 2003 and 2004. Status reports should be sent to both the chair of this committee and the Legislative Auditor. The proposed legislation to accomplish combination of the boards should be 2002-02-04 House Journal Page 2140 completed by March 2004 so that it may be part of the sunset review process for the boards currently due to terminate by law on June 30, 2005. The Legislative Audit Division is directed to consider and review the draft legislation as part of the sunset review conducted for each of the boards involved. The merits and deficiencies of combining alternatives of the licensing boards should be discussed in the sunset audit report." The following fiscal note(s) apply to CSHB 343(L&C): 1. Fiscal, Dept. of Community & Economic Development HB 343 was referred to the Finance Committee.