SB 1351 Summary

• Occupational Licensure Review Committee: Creates an 8-member legislative committee (4 Senate, 4 House) to conduct sunrise reviews of proposed new occupational licensing requirements before legislation is introduced, operating for three years with reports due in 2023.

• Universal Licensure: Requires licensing authorities to issue licenses to applicants holding current valid unrestricted licenses in other states who demonstrate competency, though authorities may require exams and can issue limited licenses if Idaho's scope of practice is broader.

• Criminal Conviction Inquiry: Allows individuals with criminal convictions to request that a licensing authority opine whether their conviction disqualifies them from licensure, with responses due within 60 days for a fee not exceeding $25.

• Relevancy Evaluation Standard: Establishes that disqualifying criminal offenses must be "deemed relevant" to fitness for practice by considering nature and seriousness of the crime, relationship to the occupation, passage of time, rehabilitation evidence, and other relevant factors, rather than vague terms like "moral turpitude."

• Technical Amendments: Updates 30+ occupational licensing statutes across multiple professions to remove obsolete language and implement the new criminal conviction relevancy standard consistently.