Vermont H 296: An act relating to reducing the imposition of cash bail

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H.296 1
Introduced by Representatives Birong of Vergennes, Hango of Berkshire, 2
Minier of South Burlington, Austin of Colchester, Gregoire of 3
Fairfield, Lalley of Shelburne, Logan of Burlington, McCann of 4
Montpelier, McGill of Bridport, Morgan, M. of Milton, Nugent 5
of South Burlington, Pouech of Hinesburg, and Stone of 6
Burlington 7
Referred to Committee on 8
Date: 9
Subject: Professions and occupations; dieticians; interstate compact; Office of 10
Professional Regulation 11
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes that the State 12
adopt and enter into the Dietician Licensure Compact. 13
An act relating to Vermont’s adoption of the Dietician Licensure Compact 14
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: 15
Sec. 1. 26 V.S.A. chapter 73 is amended to read: 16
CHAPTER 73. DIETICIANS 17
Subchapter 1. General provisions 18
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Subchapter 2. Dietician Licensure Compact 20

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§ 3391. DIETICIAN LICENSURE COMPACT; ADOPTION 1
This subchapter is the Vermont adoption of the Dietician Licensure 2
Compact. The form, format, and text of the Compact have been conformed to 3
the conventions of the Vermont Statutes Annotated. It is the intent of the 4
General Assembly that this subchapter be interpreted as substantively the same 5
as the Dietician Licensure Compact that is enacted by other Compact party 6
states. 7
§ 3391a. PURPOSE 8
(a) The purpose of this Compact is to facilitate interstate practice of 9
dietetics with the goal of improving public access to dietetics services. This 10
Compact preserves the regulatory authority of States to protect public health 11
and safety through the current system of State licensure, while also providing 12
for licensure portability through a compact privilege granted to qualifying 13
professionals. 14
(b) This Compact is designed to achieve the following objectives: 15
(1) increase public access to dietetics services; 16
(2) provide opportunities for interstate practice by licensed dietitians 17
who meet uniform requirements; 18
(3) eliminate the necessity for licenses in multiple states; 19
(4) reduce administrative burden on member states and licensees; 20
(5) enhance the states’ ability to protect the public’s health and safety; 21

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(6) encourage the cooperation of member states in regulating multistate 1
practice of licensed dietitians; 2
(7) support relocating active military members and their spouses; 3
(8) enhance the exchange of licensure, investigative, and disciplinary 4
information among member states; and 5
(9) vest all member states with the authority to hold a licensed dietitian 6
accountable for meeting all state practice laws in the state in which the patient 7
is located at the time care is rendered. 8
§ 3391b. DEFINITIONS 9
As used in this Compact, and except as otherwise provided, the following 10
definitions shall apply: 11
(1) “ACEND” means the Accreditation Council for Education in 12
Nutrition and Dietetics or its successor organization. 13
(2) “Active military member” means any individual with full-time duty 14
status in the active armed forces of the United States, including members of the 15
National Guard and Reserve. 16
(3) “Adverse Action” means any administrative, civil, equitable, or 17
criminal action permitted by a state’s laws which is imposed by a licensing 18
authority or other authority against a licensee, including actions against an 19
individual’s license or compact privilege such as revocation, suspension, 20
probation, monitoring of the licensee, limitation on the licensee’s practice, or 21

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any other encumbrance on licensure affecting a licensee’s authorization to 1
practice, including issuance of a cease and desist action. 2
(4) “Alternative program” means a non-disciplinary monitoring or 3
practice remediation process approved by a licensing authority. 4
(5) “Charter member state” means any member state which enacted this 5
Compact by law before the effective date specified in section 3391l of this 6
subchapter. 7
(6) “Continuing education” means a requirement, as a condition of 8
license renewal, to provide evidence of participation in, and completion of, 9
educational and professional activities relevant to practice or area of work. 10
(7) “CDR” means the Commission on Dietetic Registration or its 11
successor organization. 12
(8) “Compact Commission” means the government agency whose 13
membership consists of all states that have enacted this Compact, which is 14
known as the Dietitian Licensure Compact Commission, as described in 15
section 3391h of this subchapter, and which shall operate as an instrumentality 16
of the member states. 17
(9) “Compact privilege” means a legal authorization, which is 18
equivalent to a license, p