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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>RULEMAKING NOTICE</u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find attached the following <b>Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Hearing</b> and Statement of Need and Fiscal Impact.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><u>Rule Caption</u>: Criminal record checks and fitness determinations for licensure.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><u>Rule Summary</u>: The proposed amendment modifies the Board’s rule regarding criminal records checks and fitness determinations. It updates criminal records check procedures and implements the statewide uniform
fitness determination process and criminal records administrative rules. This includes factors the Board considers as part of fitness determination, how a subject individual may appeal an adverse determination, confidentiality of criminal offender information,
and consequence for failure to comply per law.<o:p></o:p></p>
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The agency requests public comment on whether the options should be considered for achieving the rule’s substantive goals while reducing negative economic impact of the rule on business. Please email your comments to
<a href="mailto:laree.felton@state.or.us">laree.felton@state.or.us</a> or mail them to the Board’s office at 3218 Pringle Road SE, Ste. 130, Salem, OR 97302. All comments must be received no later than
<u>5:00 p.m. on December 14, 2016</u>. A public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. on December 14, 2016 at 3218 Pringle Road SE, Salem, OR 97302.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Website:</b> The above documents, along with rule text (for the proposed rules, new language underlined, deleted language with strike-through), are available at
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OBPE"><span style="color:purple">www.oregon.gov/OBPE</span></a> under “Headlines.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">OBPE Staff<o:p></o:p></p>
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