(a) The Board may establish criteria for the development of portfolios and separate requirements in the following specialist areas:
(1) legal settings;
(2) medical settings;
(3) behavioral health settings;
(4) language pairs other than American Sign Language and spoken English;
(5) conference interpreting;
(6) tactile and low–vision sign language interpretation services;
(7) intralinguistic translations and sign language interpretation; and
(8) any other specialist areas determined to be necessary by the Board.
(b) The Board shall adopt regulations to:
(1) govern sign language interpretation services provided in a video remote interpreting setting;
(2) establish licensing and certification standards of interpreting agencies that do business in the State;
(3) allow deaf and hard of hearing individuals to determine whether they prefer sign language interpretation services being provided in a video remote interpreting setting or through in–person interpreting; and
(4) provide sign language interpretation services in a video remote interpreting setting.