[OBPEeNews] Notice: Proposed Rulemakings

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RULEMAKING NOTICE

Please find attached the following three Notices of Proposed Rulemaking Hearing and Statement of Need and Fiscal Impact:
1)      Rule Caption: Healthcare workforce data survey and fee requirement for renewing licensees.
Rule Summary: Senate Bill 230 (SB 230) passed during the 2015 Regular Session and amended ORS 676.410.  This added a requirement that certain healthcare workforce regulatory boards, including the Board of Psychologist Examiners, collaborate with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and adopt rules that will require renewing licensees to provide specified information and pay a fee established by OHA.  This proposed rule amendment implements SB 230 by requiring that licensed psychologists and psychologist associates, in order to complete their biennial license renewal, must pay the fee established by OHA and complete the healthcare workforce data survey. This requirement will begin with renewals due in July of 2016.
2)      Rule Caption: Contested case hearings.
Rule Summary: The proposed amendment will clarify that contested case hearings are closed to the public. There is also a correction to a statute reference.
3)      Rule Caption: Application for licensure; consequence for failure to disclose arrest or conviction.
Rule Summary: The proposed amendment requires that applications for licensure not make omissions or false, misleading or deceptive statements on any Board application form, establishes a minimum $200 civil penalty for failure to disclose an arrest or conviction, and prohibits an application from being approved until Board ordered conditions are met.
The agency requests public comment on whether the options should be considered for achieving the rule's substantive goals while reducing negative economic impact of the rule on business.  Please email your comments to laree.felton at state.or.us<mailto:laree.felton at state.or.us> or mail them to the Board's office at 3218 Pringle Road SE, Ste. 130, Salem, OR 97302.  All comments must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 2, 2016.  A public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. on May 2, 2016 at 3218 Pringle Road SE, Salem, OR 97302.
Website: The above documents, along with rule text (for the proposed rules, new language underlined, deleted language with strike-through), are available at www.oregon.gov/OBPE<http://www.oregon.gov/OBPE> under "Headlines."

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Thank you,

OBPE Staff
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