CHAPTER 310 OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION
Section 310:5
310:5 Administration of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification; Funding. –
I. The executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification shall establish and collect all license, certification, and renewal fees, as well as any necessary administrative fees for each professional regulatory board administered by the office. Such fees shall be sufficient to produce estimated revenues up to 125 percent of the total operating expenses for the office, as determined by averaging the operating expenses for the office for the previous 2 fiscal years.
II. There is hereby established the office of professional licensure and certification fund into which the fees collected under paragraph I shall be deposited. The fund shall be a separate, dedicated, nonlapsing fund, continually appropriated to the office of professional licensure and certification. Moneys in the fund shall be used to pay all costs and salaries associated with the office, and any remaining funds in a biennium shall be used for capital expenditures related to the operation of the office of professional licensure and certification. At the close of each biennium, any funds in excess of $3,000,000 shall be used to reduce licensing and certification fees.
III. There is hereby established a dedicated, nonlapsing fund to be known as the New Hampshire health professionals' program administration fund for the administration of the professionals' health program, including the professionals' health program in RSA 329:13-b, the alternative recovery monitoring program in RSA 326-B:36-a, and the impaired pharmacist program set forth in RSA 318:29-a, with a fee charged to licensees at the time of initial licensure, renewal licensure, or reinstatement of licensure, for the board of medicine, board of dental examiners, pharmacy board, board of nursing, board of veterinary medicine, board of psychologists, board of chiropractic examiners, board of mental health practice, midwifery council, board of registration in optometry, board of podiatry, board of licensed dietitians, and board of licensing for alcohol and other drug use professionals, not to exceed 125 percent of the actual cost of providing the services. Other health and technical professions boards may be added to the program at the same annual fee per licensee. The moneys in this fund shall be continually appropriated to the office.
IV. The office of professional licensure and certification shall be responsible for the financing of any interstate compact joined by the state that affects a profession governed by a board listed in RSA 310:2. Such financing shall be from funds deposited in the office of professional licensure and certification fund.
V. The office of professional licensure and certification shall report biennially by each July 1 on how the funds were expended over the previous biennium. The office shall forward the report to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairs of the house and senate executive departments and administration committees, the state library, the governor, and applicable boards, and shall make the report available online.