Legislature(2023 - 2024)BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
03/27/2023 01:30 PM Senate LABOR & COMMERCE
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+ | SB 45 | TELECONFERENCED | |
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SB 75-AUD. & SPEECH-LANG INTERSTATE COMPACT 1:39:27 PM CHAIR BJORKMAN reconvened the meeting and announced the consideration of SENATE BILL NO. 75 "An Act relating to an audiology and speech-language interstate compact; relating to the practice of audiology and the practice of speech-language pathology; and providing for an effective date. This is the second hearing. He asked the sponsor to provide a recap of SB 75 which was introduced to the committee on March 8. 1:40:13 PM SENATOR DAVID WILSON, District N, Alaska State Legislature, Juneau, Alaska, sponsor of SB 75, stated that SB 75 establishes an Act relating to an audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact. This helps promote cooperation among the states; interstate compact licensures help increase the quality of care by decreasing burdens to licensing while maintaining rigorous licensing standards and state sovereignty. 1:40:55 PM CHAIR BJORKMAN asked if members had questions for the bill sponsor; seeing none, he opened public testimony on SB 75. 1:41:22 PM SUSAN ADAMS, Director of State Legislative & Regulatory Affairs, American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Rockville, Maryland, stated support for SB 75 and offered to answer questions about how the compact works. 1:41:58 PM NAHALE KALFAS, General Counsel, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact; Legal Counsel, Council of State Governments, Raleigh, North Carolina, stated support for SB 75 and offered to answer questions about how the compact works. 1:42:35 PM CHAIR BJORKMAN closed public testimony on SB 75 and solicited the will of the committee. 1:42:54 PM SENATOR BISHOP moved to report SB 75, work order 33-LS0139\B, from committee with individual recommendations and attached fiscal note(s). CHAIR BJORKMAN found no objection and SB 75 was reported from the Senate Labor and Commerce Standing Committee.