Contents
- State Licensure Handbook
- Rationale for State Licensure
- The Potential Downside of Licensing O&P Professionals
- Getting Started
- Writing a Bill
- Generate Support
- Know and Deal with the Potential Opposition
- Passing a Bill
- How to Lobby Your Legislator
- The Regulatory Process
- A Never Ending Story
- Now That You Know How, Get Started Today
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ABC State Licensure Handbook
January 2015
The Potential Downside of Licensing O&P Professionals
- Significant costs in both human and monetary resources over a long period of time can be incurred in the pursuit of licensure.
- Licensure may result in some compromise of the profession’s scope of practice during the political process.
- Loss of control of the profession by O&P practitioners is possible as a governmental agency gains the ability to manage the profession.
- Fixed long-term costs of licensure administration are likely to be incurred if licensure becomes a reality.
- Some states have sunset provisions for legislation and regulation that should be taken into consideration. A sunset provision or clause is a measure within a statute, regulation or other law that provides that the law shall cease to have effect after a specific date, unless further legislative action is taken to extend the law. This means that the statute will have to be re-approved in order to remain in place. Opening the statute up to be re-approved does provide outside groups the opportunity to revise the law.
