Revises provisions governing occupational and professional licensing. (BDR 54-221)

Existing law provides for the regulation of certain occupations and professions in this State. (Title 54 of NRS) Existing law further: (1) requires a regulatory body to adopt regulations providing for the issuance of a license by endorsement to engage in an occupation or profession in this State to certain natural persons; and (2) sets forth certain minimum requirements for obtaining a license by endorsement. (NRS 622.530) Section 1 of this bill provides instead that a regulatory body is required to issue a license by endorsement to engage in an occupation or profession in this State to certain applicants without the regulatory body having to adopt regulations. Section 1 also revises the requirements for a person to obtain such a license by endorsement to require that, in addition to certain existing requirements, the person: (1) is a resident of this State; (2) has held for at least 1 year a corresponding valid and unrestricted license in good standing to engage in that occupation or profession in the District of Columbia or any state or territory of the United States; (3) has satisfied the minimum educational, examination and experience requirements for such license; and (4) has not voluntarily surrendered any license to engage in the occupation or profession while under investigation by the corresponding regulatory authority in the other jurisdiction. Section 1 also specifies that it is an alternative to any specific statute relating to the issuance of a license by endorsement by a regulatory body. Section 2 of this bill provides that certain regulations adopted by a regulatory body pursuant to existing law relating to the licensure by endorsement are void and must not be given effect to the extent of conflict with section 1.