Relating to licensure fees for professional licenses, permits, and certifications

Where it is now

Done: IntroducedMarch 19, 2025
Done: SubcommitteeApril 1, 2025
Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: Passes the House
Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
Next: Passes the Senate
Next: To the Governor
Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary State officials will work with different government boards and committees to create a standard set of fees for professional licenses and permits. This plan aims to make sure that similar types of licenses cost the same amount to renew. After talking with these groups, the department will submit a report on how to officially set these new fees.¹

Read the official explanation

This bill relates to licensure fees for professional licenses, permits, and certifications. The bill requires the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (department) to consult with each board, commission, committee, council, and other entity of state government identified in the licensure renewal and fee study (study) issued by the department to propose uniform licensure fees for each license in a tier identified in the study. The bill requires the department to, not later than months after the effective date of the bill, submit a regulatory analysis of proposed rules as necessary to implement the uniform licensure fee proposed for licenses in a tier, if adopting the fee by rule is otherwise authorized by law.

Full bill text²

House subcommittee

Named April 8, 2025. On April 16, 2025 it recommended passage.

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Lobbying

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