General Assembly; legislation increasing regulation or establishing initial regulation.

General Assembly; legislation increasing regulationor establishing initial regulation of a profession or occupation;required evaluation by Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation.Provides that whenever a legislative bill requiring the Departmentof Professional and Occupational Regulation to increase or begin regulation of a profession or occupation is filed during any sessionof the General Assembly, the chairman of the committee to which the bill is referred is required to request the Board for Professionaland Occupational Regulation to prepare an evaluation of the legislationusing the statutory criteria for professional and occupational regulation.The bill removes the current requirement that the Division of LegislativeServices identify and forward to the Board bills requiring such evaluation.The bill requires the Board to submit its evaluation to the appropriateClerk within 10 months for transmittal to the patron of the bill andthe chairman of the committee to which the bill was referred.