Licensure Act

The act regulates the practice of fitting and dispensing hearing instruments, and extends to related speech-language pathology support roles, requiring a license to engage in the covered work. It creates a state licensing board — with defined powers, duties, staffing, and fee handling — that sets qualifications, administers examinations, issues licenses (including provisional and apprentice credentials), grants reciprocity to out-of-state practitioners, and recognizes limited exemptions. It also governs license renewal, inactive and pro bono status, continuing education, standards of professional conduct, and consumer protections such as return rights for purchased hearing instruments, with enforcement through disciplinary proceedings, injunctions, and penalties.

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