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
Writing a Bill
- Once you have achieved consensus on the vision of your licensing requirements (based on this model act and your consensus building efforts) you need to begin the process of drafting a bill. Keep in mind that a bill can be as specific and detailed as you and your bill sponsor like. However, much of the specific requirements that you want to enact will come not in the law but in the regulations written by the agency that you have chosen to regulate the profession.
- Your legislator or lobbyist may be able to send the model to a state agency to have the bill produced. If other sectors of O&P related care are licensed, the new bill may have to conform to what is already in the code, and may be an amendment to current code that does not make sense as a stand-alone document.
- The more restrictive the statute the less flexibility the agency will have in implementing the law.
