HB92 Summary

• Requires self-sustaining state professional licensing boards, agencies, and commissions to publish expenditure information either on the Comptroller's searchable public database or on their own public website, with the choice made annually and recorded in board minutes.

• Creates the Alabama Sunrise Act requiring the Sunset Committee to review proposals for regulating new professions or occupations based on specified criteria including necessity to protect public health, specialized skill requirements, job impact, cost-effectiveness, and availability of alternative protections.

• Requires proponents of new professional licensing regulation to provide detailed information to the Sunset Committee including number of affected individuals, harm documentation, training costs, federal mandates, and details of previous regulatory efforts.

• Prohibits occupational licensing boards from assessing monetary fines or penalties against consumers effective January 1, 2020, except against unlicensed practitioners or those filing false information.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.