03/23/2022 01:00 PM Senate FINANCE

SENATE BILL NO. 222                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act extending the termination date of the State                                                                        
     Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Board; and                                                                       
     providing for an effective date."                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
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Co-Chair Bishop relayed  that it was the  second hearing for                                                                    
SB  222.   The  committee  had  opened   and  closed  public                                                                    
testimony on March 21, 2022.  The committee intended to hear                                                                    
a brief  bill reintroduction,  review the fiscal  notes, and                                                                    
look to the will of the committee.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
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SENATOR ELVI GRAY-JACKSON, SPONSOR,  explained that the bill                                                                    
would  extend the  State Physical  Therapy and  Occupational                                                                    
Therapy  Board  for  eight  years   as  recommended  by  the                                                                    
Legislative Audit Division.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Bishop  discussed  FN  1 from  the  Department  of                                                                    
Commerce,  Community   and  Economic  Development   with  an                                                                    
appropriation  for the  Division  of Corporations,  Business                                                                    
and Professional  Licensing (CBPL).  He shared  the proposed                                                                    
allocation  of $28,400  in  Designated  General Funds  (DGF)                                                                    
annually,  with  $26,000 for  seven  board  members and  one                                                                    
staff  member, $400  for public  notice  of board  meetings,                                                                    
$1,000 for training, and $100 for stipends.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Senator  Hoffman MOVED  to report  SB 222  out of  Committee                                                                    
with individual recommendations  and the accompanying fiscal                                                                    
note. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
SB 222  was REPORTED  out of committee  with five  "do pass"                                                                    
recommendations  and with  one  previously published  fiscal                                                                    
impact note: FN 1(CED).                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
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AT EASE                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
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RECONVENED