in-20251029-IR-GOV250640EOA: FOR: GRANTING EXTENSION ON EXPIRATION OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSING AGENCY REGULATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH EO 25-18

STATE OF INDIANA EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT INDIANAPOLIS EXECUTIVE ORDER: 25-69 FOR: GRANTING EXTENSION ON EXPIRATION OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSING AGENCY REGULATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH EO 25-18 TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME, GREETINGS. WHEREAS, IC 4-22-2.6-1(b)(3) provides that if the latest version of a rule becomes effective in calendar year 2019, then the rule expires not later than January 1, 2026; WHEREAS, IC 4-22-2.6-10 provides that if a rule is not readopted and the governor finds that the failure to readopt it causes an emergency to exist, then the governor may, by executive order before the rule’s expiration date, postpone the expiration date of said rule until a date that is not later than one (1) year after the date specified in IC 4-22-2.6-1; WHEREAS, IC 25-1-16.5-7 requires all occupational licensing rules must be limited to those demonstrably necessary and carefully tailored to fulfill legitimate public health, safety, or welfare objectives; WHEREAS, IC 25-1-16.5-8 requires all state agencies to review their occupational licensing administrative rules by July 1, 2026, to identify and recommend the removal or reduction of unnecessary and overly burdensome occupational licensing administrative rules; WHEREAS, the Budget Committee authorized the Indiana Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) to hire a vendor to conduct an occupational licensing study to assist agencies in completing the comprehensive review and report required by IC 25-1-16.5-8; WHEREAS, the study is expected to be completed by January 2026, and its results will assist PLA with the review of the rules listed above and the determination whether to readopt them or to amend and modify them, saving PLA’s staff substantial time and expense; WHEREAS, in order to properly review unnecessary occupational licensing rules required under IC 25-1-16.5-8, the Professional Licensing Agency (“PLA”) submitted a request to the Governor to postpone for three hundred sixty-five (365) days the expiration of the following rules, as designated by the citation to the Indiana Administrative Code, which were last readopted in 2019, have not been readopted since, and will expire January 1, 2026, without further action; WHEREAS, in the interests of efficiency and prudent use of taxpayer resources, PLA should not undertake the time and expense to readopt the rules listed above this year when it is likely PLA will be revising many or all of them in light of the OMB study; and WHEREAS, the failure to readopt the rule cited above would cause an emergency to exist, such that it is necessary and appropriate to postpone its expiration date; NOW, THEREFORE, I, MIKE BRAUN, by virtue of the authority vested in me as the Governor of the State of Indiana, do hereby order that: the expiration date of the rules listed above shall be postponed for three hundred sixty-five (365) days until January 1, 2027.