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H.B. 509* Bill Analysis
134th General Assembly
Click here for H.B. 509’s Fiscal Note
Version: As Reported by Senate Workforce and Higher Education
Primary Sponsors: Reps. John and Fowler Arthur
Effective Date:
Joe McDaniels, Division Chief/Attorney, and other LSC
staff
SUMMARY
Department of Aging
 Increases to two years (from one year) the duration of a nursing home administrator
license issued by the Board of Executives of Long-Term Services and Supports within the
Department of Aging.
 Modifies to $600 every two years (from $300 annually) the license renewal fee for a
nursing home administrator license.
 Eliminates the temporary nursing home administrator license issued by the Board, and
instead allows an individual to receive a nursing home administrator license before
passing a licensing examination, under specified circumstances.
Attorney General
 Eliminates, beginning December 31, 2024, the fund-raising counsel registration
requirement with the Attorney General.
Chemical Dependency Professionals Board
 Revises the law governing the restoration of expired licenses, certificates, or
endorsements issued by the Chemical Dependency Professionals Board, by specifying
that restoration must be sought within one year after expiration, rather than within two
years as under current law.
* This analysis was prepared before the report of the Senate Workforce and Higher Education
Committee appeared in the Senate Journal. Note that the legislative history may be incomplete.
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 Generally reduces to 30 from 40 the number of continuing education hours that a
chemical dependency professional must complete as a condition of license renewal.
 Revises the law governing course requirements to be specified in Board rule for the
master’s degree that must be held to be eligible for a license to practice as an
independent chemical dependency counselor, by eliminating both the 40 semester hour
requirement and specific coursework content areas.
State Chiropractic Board
 Reduces to 200 hours, including 100 hours of direct clinical instruction (from 300 hours
and 200 hours respectively), the number of hours that an approved course of study for
chiropractors seeking to practice acupuncture must include to be approved by the State
Chiropractic Board.
Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist
Board
 Eliminates temporary licenses for independent social workers, professional clinical
counselors, and independent marriage and family therapists.
 Reduces continuing education hours required for social work assistants to 15 hours
(from 30).
State Dental Board
 Beginning January 1, 2025, eliminates licensing fee amounts for dentists and dental
hygienists that differ based on the year initial licenses were issued and provides for a
single amount.
 Beginning January 1, 2025, eliminates dates established in statute for dentist and dental
hygienist license renewals and instead provides that each license is valid for a two-year
period, expires two years after the date of issuance, and may be renewed for additional
two-year periods.
 Reduces the number of continuing education hours required over each two-year license
renewal period as follows: to 30 hours (from 40) for dentists and to 20 hours (from 24)
for dental hygienists.
 Eliminates the dental hygienist teacher’s certificate and temporary volunteer’s
certificate, beginning January 1, 2025.
Department of Developmental Disabilities
 Eliminates adult service worker and adult service supervisor certificates.
 Removes references to early intervention supervisor certificates, which were created
through a rule that has been rescinded.
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 Beginning one year after the bill’s effective date, prohibits rules adopted by the
Department from establishing varying levels of certification for individuals to receive an
investigative agent certification.
Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors
 Allows a college student to apply to be a funeral director apprentice, embalmer
apprentice, or combined funeral director and embalmer apprentice.
 Repeals, effective December 31, 2024, the crematory operator license required for an
individual to perform cremations, but requires individuals engaged in the profession to
register an active national certificate with the Board.
 Reduces, effective December 31, 2024, the continuing education hours required for
each biennial licensing period for licensed funeral directors and embalmers, from
between 12 to 30 hours to not less than 12 hours.
State Board of Emergency Medical, Fire, and Transportation
Services
 Authorizes the State Board of Emergency Medical, Fire, and Transportation Services to
adopt rules creating standards for criminal background checks for applicants that apply
for or renew specified certifications issued by the Board.
 Reduces the continuing education hours required for a Paramedic from 86 hours to 75
hours, every three-year certification cycle.
 Reduces the maximum continuing education hours required for firefighter certification
renewal from 54 hours every three-year certification cycle to 36 hours every three-year
certification cycle, but authorizes a local entity to require additional hours, provided the
hours are not required for the certification renewal.
 Eliminates the Emergency Medical Services Assistant Instructor Certificate and the
Assistant Fire Instructor Certificate.
 Merges the current law EMS Training Programs with the EMS Continuing Education
Programs to become a joint EMS Training and Continuing Education Program.
 Requires the Board to adopt rules governing procedures for the merger and steps that
current operators of the individual programs must take in order to operate and teach
courses that cover training and continuing education requirements.
State Fire Marshal
 Increases the duration of an underground storage tank system installer certification,
from one year to two years.
 Sets the application fee for an underground storage tank system installer certification at
$300.
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 Sets the renewal fee for an underground storage tank system installer certification at
$300.
 Removes the requirement that a sponsor of an underground storage tank system
installer training program be certified.
 Prescribes the renewal fees for a hotel, single room occupancy license.
Department of Insurance
 Reduces the initial licensing fee for entities employing insurance navigators that is
contained in the Ohio Administrative Code from up to $250 (less than 100 navigators),
or up to $500 (100 or more navigators), to $200 in all cases.
 Reduces the renewal fee for entities employing insurance navigators that is contained in
the Ohio Administrative Code from $100 (less than 100 navigators), or $250 (100 or
more navigators), to $100 in all cases.
 Reduces the initial licensing fee and renewal fee for reinsurance intermediary broker
licenses and reinsurance intermediary manager licenses from $500 to $100.
 Permits the Superintendent of Insurance to gradually reduce the licensing fees, so long
as the reductions are fully implemented by July 1, 2023.
State Medical Board
 Clarifies that an applicant for a limited branch of medicine is applying for a license to
practice massage therapy.
 Modifies the current requirements for an applicant for a limited branch of medicine
license in massage therapy to require 600 hours in massage therapy instruction, instead
of 600 hours of other specified instruction.
Board of Nursing
 Eliminates dialysis technician intern certificates, but continues to authorize an individual
who has successfully completed an approved dialysis training program within the
previous 18 months to practice as a dialysis technician intern, so long as the individual is
supervised as provided in the bill.
 Authorizes physician assistants to supervise dialysis technicians and dialysis technician
interns, in addition to physicians and registered nurses who continue to be authorized
to supervise.
 Eliminates the requirement that a licensed practical nurse be authorized by the Board of
Nursing, after demonstrating completion of related education, in order to administer
medications or perform intravenous therapy.
 Refers to “entities” from which an advanced practice registered nurse may issue a
prescription for a schedule II controlled substance, rather than “locations” as under
current law.
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 Removes obsolete references to the Committee on Prescriptive Governance and former
advanced practice registered nurse drug formulary.
 Requires an employer who employs out-of-state nurses holding multistate licenses
under the Nurse Licensure Compact to report to the Board of Nursing the number of
those nurses, rather than their names as under current law.
 Authorizes the Nursing Board to contract with a third-party vendor to administer its
substance use disorder monitoring program for license and certificate holders.
Ohio Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Athletic
Trainers Board
 Eliminates temporary licenses to practice orthotics, prosthetics, orthotics and
prosthetics, and pedorthics; but maintains requirements applicable to an unlicensed
individual providing orthotic, prosthetic, or pedorthic services under a licensee’s
supervision.
 Eliminates a prohibition against using a title or initials representing that a person has a
temporary license listed above when the individual does not have such a license.
 Eliminates a requirement that an applicant for a license to practice orthotics,
prosthetics, orthotics and prosthetics, or pedorthics practice under a licensee for at
least eight months before being eligible for the license.
 Requires one member of the Ohio Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Athletic
Trainers (PYT) Board be a licensed physical therapist assistant with five years of relevant
experience.
 Allows one member of the Physical Therapy Section of the Board who is not a member
of the Board to be a physical therapist assistant.
State Board of Pharmacy
 Sets pharmacist continuing education at 30 hours every two years, instead of having
continuing education requirements set by the Pharmacy Board in rules.
 Reduces to $30 (from $45) the initial license and annual renewal fee for pharmacy
intern licenses.
State Board of Psychology
 Eliminates licensure by the State Board of Education for school psychologists, which are
licensed under current law by the Board of Education to practice school psychology in
school settings.
 Requires the State Board of Psychology to license school psychologists and independent
school psychologists separately (requiring the former for practice in school settings and
the latter for practice outside of school settings).
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 Requires the State Board of Education and the Psychology Board to coordinate to
implement the changes described above by January 1, 2025.
 Adds to the Psychology Board a certified Ohio behavior analyst.
State Speech and Hearing Professionals Board
 Eliminates audiologist conditional licensure (this was a grandfathering provision for
individuals who did not have a doctor of audiology degree when that became a
requirement for full licensure on January 1, 2006, and is now obsolete).
Veterinary Medical Licensing Board
 Reduces the initial license fee for a veterinary license to $275 (current law establishes a
$425 fee on license applications filed in even-numbered years and a $300 fee on
applications filed in odd-numbered years).
 Allows a person who holds a provisional veterinary graduate license to receive an initial
veterinary license free of charge if the person:
 Applies for a license to practice veterinary medicine;
 Successfully passes a nationally recognized examination approved by the State
Veterinary Medical Licensing Board for a license to practice veterinary medicine; and
 Provides to the Board’s satisfaction proof of passage of the examination.
 Regarding the initial registration fee for a veterinary technician, makes the fee a flat
$30, rather than $25 to $35 depending on the postmark of application, as in current law.
 Regarding the biennial veterinary technician registration renewal fee, makes the fee a
flat $30, rather than a fee of $35 to $60 depending on the postmark of application, as in
current law.
 Regarding any fee reductions specified above, allows the State Veterinary Medical
Licensing Board to gradually implement the reductions, but requires full implementation
by January 1, 2028.
State Vision Professionals Board
 Permits the State Vision Professionals Board to issue initial ocularist licenses and contact
lens dispensing optician licenses until December 31, 2024, and allows an individual
holding an ocularist or contact lens dispensing optician license to maintain and renew
the license until that date.
 Eliminates the separate topical ocular pharmaceutical agents certificate and therapeutic
pharmaceutical agents certificate that are issued with an optometrist license, and
specifies that a licensed optometrist has prescribing authority without holding a
separate certificate.
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 Requires certificates of licensure to practice optometry and dispensing optician licenses
to be renewed biennially instead of annually as under current law and requires a
licensee to complete continuing education to renew the license biennially.
 Eliminates the annual issuance and renewal fees under current law and establishes new
biennial issuance and renewal fees for an optometrist license and dispensing optician
license.
 Modifies the continuing education reporting period for licensed optometrists to match
the biennial licensing period under the bill.
 Reduces the period the Board will accept a late renewal application for an optometrist
license from four months after the license expires under current law to one month after
the license expires and, for a dispensing optician license, from 90 days after the license
expires under current law to 30 days after the license expires.
 Classifies an optometrist license as expired, rather than delinquent as under current law,
if the license holder has not renewed the license during the late renewal period.
 Eliminates the ability of a licensed optometrist to apply to the Board to place the
optometrist’s license on inactive status when the optometrist retires or decides to
practice in another state or country.
 Eliminates the fees charged to a license holder to reinstate a delinquent or inactive
optometrist license.
 Extends the duration of optometrist or dispensing optician licenses issued or renewed
on or after the bill’s