ALC-Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee

Licensing review accept committee to order. Uh. Repeated fact you have come in canal comments. We will start on. Item see. Our result apartment help. The. Good afternoon if you all would please turn your michael and introduce yourself for the record good afternoon thank you chairs thank you members chuck thompson attorney for the arkansas department health. Shelley matthews are nurse at the architectural department of health craigs with the twenty four console department health. Okay. Your recognition thank you mister chair members what you have before you is for review is that the occupation authorizations for the license lay midwife program the license lay midwife program is overseen by the arkansas apartment of health miss matthews is the administrator of that program there we have approximately thirty one thirty one license late midwives in arkansas the liceleman wise of program is as a creature of statute that the general assembly passed and designated to the board health to do rules for and so we have a lengthy rules that oversee the program and i'll be happy to take any questions regarding it. Okay members do we have questions. Yeah. Thank you mister chair thank you for allowing us a few questions on this as far as the unauthorized practice is the licensees as the agency cannot ridely search those that are promoting a practice without a license representative for yet a a complaint we we investigate that complaint if we believe it looks like there's been unlicensed practice for compensation the key is compensation that's away the statute reads we will also make a reference a referral to law enforcement because that is a criminal offence okay thank you. Say no more questions without objection this report stands as reviewed. Thank you mister chair thank you members. Okay architect appearing instrument dispensers. The. If you would please introduce yourself for the record mac you'll more department of health care corral department of health you're recognized so what you have in front of you today is the occupational authorizations report for the arkansas board of hearing instrument dispensers and real quick before we get started we do want to point out a typo that was included on our report on the very first page we have an authorization type that's listed as life insurer and that number of individuals regulated is number nine that should actually be for our interns so we have nine interns and we actually have seventy five full licen. So the board of on hearing instrument dispensers overseas the sale of essentially hearing and it's much more complex than that description what what did you say. Would you say I said the board of here in case that my own bargain I interrupted you don't add hearing earlier to united here there's always a joke somewhere thank you so the board overseas professionals license and arkansas who wish to become license and arkansas in the practice of either dispensing hearing instruments the lay person term for hearing aids they also oversee the regulation related to the sale of the use hearing instrument dispenser type of items. And right now we have some against seventy five licensees nine individuals are on their way so they were completing an internship as we speak and to become fully licensed in arkansas. With that i'll open an up to any questions account. Okay represent cavenaugh thank you mister chair so I look at the fees that were charging are those reduced because you had a fund balance. Yes mainly sure okay and what was it prior to the reduction what you look at the old rules really quick. So for instance the application fee was a hundred dollars the practical examination fee range from twenty five dollars the internship fee was also one hundred dollars nothing was over a hundred dollars everything was either a hundred dollars or less depending on what the fee structure okay so if you can in this i'm just talking about the nine individuals that were talking about so they're the ones that just. Dispense so there basically there are in turn and they're on their path to become a full licensee so they are not allowed to actually dispense their essentially shadowing a license dispenser. And that is a one year internship that sponsor has to sign off on all of their work ensuring that they've completed that internship to the degree that is up the professional stated for arkansas okay so we have nine individuals that are in the internship to look to become though so we don't license very many new ones. Around her old licensers old well i'm glad you asked that question because we actually so it's a again it's a small body of licensees seventy five people in the state. For a long time and based on our records it was sort of a slow growing profession in arkansas but in the past two years it's grown a lot and I think a lot of that's been due to resuprosity processes. The. So and I can actually tell you specifically. I think it's about twenty six percent of our seventy five licensees have been licensed in the last two years. Yeah. Okay. Alright thank you. Ribbon fi. Thank you mister chair do we have any counties that have no license dispensers. That's a good question we haven't looked at that specifically a lot of these license dispensers operate out of hearing centers these are am storefronts you'll see when you drive around depending on the size of her town sometimes you'll seem called taylor hearing center which is just like a chain natural air hearing centers they're under a different sort of commercial businesses so that's called continue on where those are located thank you. The. Represent cabinet thank you mister I have another question you know mine so it's talking about what they're need it to be in the internet it talks about that they have um equivalent of two years or more credited college level course work. But it doesn't specify anything to do with anything so it could be arts and pleasure I mean I guess what i'm asking is why do we have a requirement that they have two years worth of college but you don't care what it is. That's I believe written into the statute of this and I think part of it is also the fact that it is an internship requirement so the understanding is that there was interns would get the actual work skills and experience while shadowing their sponsor exactly why i'm saying why do we need two years worth of college if they're in any internship where they're going to learn what they need to do why we put in a bird normal that they have to go to two years the college first. When you've got somebody that might want to come round out of school. Be able to go into an intern I guess that's what i'm asking. Yeah I think the internships required and statute so okay though I think that's something that I can be a recommendation I got thank you. No other questions without objection there's report stands as review. Thank you thank you. Okay next is the arkansas. The praiser licensing service cash board. If you would please search your michael and interduce yourself for the record. Brian hesterboard chair i'm diana pierski under director of the state board of a pricer's abstractors and home inspectors scott mckinnon board member. Can you recognize okay thank you sir we have just a brief opening comment again i'm diana piaski and director of the state board of a prizer's abstractors and home inspectors we are a division of the department of labor and licensing where before you today to discuss issues relating to the praiser division of the combined board as something you may remember in the nineteen eighties the financial sector suffered through a period of distress that was supposed focused on the nation's savings and loan industry as a result congress passed the financial institutions reform recovery and enforcement act of nineteen eighty nine which we call fare that instituted a number of reforms for the industry tab eleven of our rear established the appraisal subcommittee of the federal financial institutions examinations council the purpose of todd eleven is to provide protection of federal financial in public policy interest by up holding toddle eleven requirements repraisals perform preferredly related transactions the approach or licensing and certification board was originally created by act five forty one of nineteen ninety one in response to time eleven at six twenty eight at twenty twenty three marriage the apprisor licensing and certification board the arkansas abstractor board and the home inspector registration board to become the state board of a process abstractors and home inspectors as it relates to the approach a preserve division the board is charged to protect public interest by ensuring that real property appraisers meet the minimum requirements established by the approach or qualifications for to become a registered license or start about a praiser that the appraisals performed comply with the minimum standards required by the uniform standards of professional approach or practice and for the enforcement of the laws and rules but in place by this governing body for the enforcement of appropriate discipline have signed sanctioned approaches and affair in uniform manner. The state board of her proserves abstractors and home inspectors is an eleven member board with favor pricer members three home inspector members one abstract remember one financial representative and a senior or consumer member today we've held three board meetings and are becoming a cohesive board working together well to protect public interest for all of the disciplines we regulate thank you and we are happy to answer your questions. Okay members you know what I have a question. Seeing nine. The objection this report stands as reviewed. The. Thank you. Next is the arkansas local fire petroleum gas board. Good morning lauren ballard chief of staff department of energy and environment. Andrea hopkins associate energy administrator energy and environment kevin telstra direct of the look for pulling gasport you're recognized for your report sever a brief statement here the mission of the look for petroleum gas board is to ensure that all our kansas can purchase a utilized propane in a safe matter this includes the proper training of industry personnel and ensuring that storage delivery vehicles and equipment are properly maintain and suited for use with property. We insure sound rules that promote industry growth by night maintaining the safety of all our kansas on average are kansas consumer hundred million gallons of propane annually fifty million gallons appropriate concern are consumed every year by roughly a hundred and twenty five thousand households for heating their homes cooking food drying their clothes and heating water. Twenty five million gallons are consumed annually for agricultural purposes such as heating poultry houses and irrigating crops in the delta commercial and industrial uses account for roughly twenty million gallons powering for close preparing food in restaurants cutting metal and heating cabins and lodges another five million gallons are consumed in the state annually but for recordational purposes such as arbi's campers grilling and hot airballings this is just a snapshot of who has consuming appropriate here in arkansas. The governor appointed seven member board was established in nineteen sixty five with authority to probably get rules issue and rebuilt permits and enforce the provisions of the actor of the purpose of improving standards of safety one member is is chosen for me to the four congressional districts while three are at large. One member is chosen as a consumer advocate and cannot be working anna retired from the industry the agency currently has six employees three are field inspectors in three work in the office so far in twenty four we have issued four hundred and twenty seven permits and have certified thirty six hundred and sixty employees for in the industry I am with that mister charles would glad to take any questions okay. Members you want to have a question. She known. Without objection is report stands review that you. Next. The. Be there is our state plant board. The. The. The. You would please introduce yourself for the record. Excuse me thank you mister chair I am scott bury on the director of the arkansas state plant board and the plant industry's division with an arkansas culture okay corey seats department agriculture you recognize. Thank you mister chairman today we're here to report on three different. A groups of commercial and non commercial pestade applicators are these groups are not part of our pesticide agriculture related program they fall under our commercial pest control program within the these are the applicators that do in house long and turf past turnout work things like that work excuse me the first group we have or the non commercial applicators these applicators are. Typically employed by a business that chooses to do their own and house has control and through this do this license that they can have an employee do that for them in this license while the employee purchased eating and all pesticides they might want to use for their in house work. The next group are license operators these are our commercial a licensees there's six categories within this group and that ranges from tarma to household pairs to fumigation to lawn in turf these are the applicators that you'll see associated with his control businesses like terminate to work in true green son and so forth and then the next group we have are technicians the technicians are employees that work under the supervision of license operators for instance if you see a person troll company a larger company like a terminates or an organ most of the individuals you'll see out doing the work or technicians and they are certified and working on the supervision of a license operator employed by the business. And didn't after any questions after that. Okay member. So thank you mister how does somebody get license like what are the steps to become a technician in or relay to their customer that I have according therefore there is a testing process they go for the our department. For non commercial you just simply test. For a commercial license operator you have to have some background you have to be able to prove. Two years experience in the new elizabeth test and for the technicians they have to show that they received a level of in house training up to forty hours of ojt from a license operator and then there else will be test so what kind of material is tested like types of chemicals it is its types of pest identification label review there's a sample label has society label that's involved in questions are asked based on the label then there are some calculations you have to do based on square footage and formulations okay great thank you. The. Seeing known without objection this report standard review eh next meeting will be march four point in this room roommate we stand adjourned.