Enrolled Bill Summary

A 2001 amendment to the Information Resources Management Act mandated that the Department of  Information Resources (DIR) administer a common electronic system for transactions involving occupational licensing authorities. House Bill 1166 amends the act to allow an individual regulated by one or more authorities to file a single change-of-address on-line with the DIR and have that change forwarded to each appropriate authority. The DIR may expand the system to include additional categories of updated information to be supplied to multiple authorities. It allows licensing authorities to use electronically received information only for regulatory purposes and requires that they share information regarding license holders, especially disciplinary information, to the extent that such sharing is feasible and allowed by law.