RSA 326-E:2 · Rulemaking

326-E:2 Rulemaking. –
The executive director, in consultation with the advisory board, shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A:
I. Specifying the limited scopes of practice permitted to certified pulmonary function technicians, registered pulmonary function technologists and registered polysomnographic technologists.
II. Relating to materiel management.
III. Specifying the eligibility requirements to be met by persons or entities seeking approval as providers of continuing education programs.
IV. Specifying the standards to be met by continuing education programs.
V. Specifying the professional organizations, or the standards to be met by professional organizations, whose approval of education programs qualifies the programs as board-approved continuing education.
VI. Specifying the scope of respiratory care practice, including rules regarding the criteria and procedures for granting, revoking, and reinstating a license.
VII. Pertaining to the completion by licensees, as part of the renewal process, a survey and opt-out form provided by the office of rural health, the department of health and human services, for the purpose of collecting data regarding the New Hampshire primary care workforce, pursuant to the commission established in RSA 126-T, along with written notice to licensees of the opportunity to opt-out from participation of the survey.
VIII. The temporary licensure and scope of practice of student respiratory therapists under RSA 326-E:3-a.
Source. 2003, 310:2, eff. July 1, 2003. 2021, 197:26, eff. July 1, 2021. 2022, 72:12, 13, eff. July 19, 2022. 2025, 111:3, eff. Aug. 22, 2025; 162:2, eff. Sept. 13, 2025.