ALC-Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee
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Senator Dave Wallace
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2:15
Folks welcome to them occupational license review committee today. appreciate you all being here we have called to order the chairs have no comments moving on without objection the fire protection laststing boardard the last name protection board will be moved to the March meeting do you have any objections See none that has been approved
moving on to next as a review reports from occupational authorization entities and I know we have DhS in the room if you all will come forward thank you all for being here lo ri ri it's good to see you here today in memphifield state your name good
Speaker 15
3:16
afternoon Martina Smith director for the division of provider services and quality assurance.
Speaker 15
3:25
welcome to start Provir services and quality assurance has three occupational licenses we have the certified nurse aid license we have the nursing home administrator license and we have the psychiatric residential treatment facility license all of these licenses are necessary to protect the health and safety of our individuals that live in residential facilities and I'll be happy to take any
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
3:50
Members do we have any and my cochair thank you ma'am. so I I look through this the only question that I have is on the NHA one it shows that you currently have
about an $800,000 fund balance and looking at your expenses looks like there's a $2000 to the national board and then you did 26,000 for the training classes and so
you're you know your fund balance is is way way way way way over what your expenses are and so I'm just kind of curious about any plans either to reduce licensing fees or how can we use that money so it's just not sitting there unnecessarily or growing unnecessarily sure we can definitely take a look at some
Speaker 15
4:43
alternative methods to use those fees the statute that is in place says we can only use those fees for training so that's why we have
that contract with the Arkansas healthalthcare association to provide training
Speaker 18
4:56
classes ok right I just like I said that that
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
4:59
everything else looks good and just kind of you know or you know if we can reduce fees for our people or just just so we don't have this big big old pot of money just sitting there not doing anybody any good because if it stays there too long the people at this table will find it and and find something Membs are there any other questions
Senator Dave Wallace
Unverified
5:28
no ma'am thank you you're dismissed you Members moving on to other business does the committee members do you have any other business to talk about? OK and I see none Reembers with that
Unknown speaker
5:59
I apologize for the length of the meeting but we are adjourned
Agenda
A. Call to Order
B. Comments by the Co-Chairs
C. Review of Reports from Occupational Authorization Entities:
D. Other Business
E. Adjournment
Documents
| Title | Type | Pages | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agenda — ALC - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE, Feb 19, 2026 | Agenda | 1 | Official source ↗ |
| Exhibit C1 -- Department of Human Services Report | Exhibit | 9 | Official source ↗ |
Speakers
Senator Dave Wallace
Unverified
Speaker 15
Speaker 16
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
Speaker 18