Overview of Committee Work Rules Committee The NLC Rules Committee was led by co-Chairs Joey Ridenour, RN, MN, FAAN, executive director, Arizona State Board of Nursing, and Brett Thompson-May, JD, general counsel, Mississippi Board of Nursing. Highlights of Rules Committee work include: • Development of survey process for commissioners and BON legal staff to review existing regulatory FAQs and provide commentary regarding areas needing clarity. • Review and revision of regulatory FAQs (previously legal FAQs) inclusive of statutory citations, grouping of questions by category, elimination of duplicative/overlapping questions and additional clarity based on survey results. • Completion of an adverse action flowchart to help commissioners and board attorneys better understand when adverse action is a disqualifying event for a licensee to obtain a multistate license.
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Rulemaking Handbook
NLC Rulemaking Handbook provides guidance related to NLC Rulemaking process, procedures and timelines.
• NLC Conference Series presentation on May 17, 2021, inclusive of four sessions to help educate participants about the rulemaking process, share guiding documents and test rulemaking knowledge. • Development of a Rulemaking Handbook to provide a publication of rulemaking information as a quick reference and describe formal and informal procedures, including guidance instructions.
Rules Committee pictured above, top row, left to right: Joey Ridenour, Brett Thompson-May, Kim Esquibel, Amy Fitzugh, Alice Henley; bottom row, left to right: Michelle Mayhew, Debbie McKinney, Carol Moody, Stacey Pfenning, Rick Masters — 8—
