To update the rule.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Council of Licensed Midwifery

RULE NO: RULE TITLE
64B24-5.004: Retired Status License
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To update the rule.
SUMMARY: This rule amendment corrects the spelling of license and eliminates the requirement that to reactivate a license after 5 years the person must pass an examination.
SUMMARY OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COSTS: No Statement of Estimated Regulatory Cost was prepared.
Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative must do so in writing within 21 days of this notice.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 456.036(15), 467.005 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 456.036(2), (4), (8), (12) FS.
IF REQUESTED WITHIN 21 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THIS NOTICE, A HEARING WILL BE SCHEDULED AND ANNOUNCED IN FAW.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Pamela King, Executive Director, Council of Licensed Midwifery, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C06, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3256

THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE IS:

64B24-5.004 Retired Status License

(1)  No change.

(2)  A licensee may reactivate a retired status license by:

(a)  Paying the renewal fee for an active status license licensee for each biennial licensure period in which the licensee was in retired status and the reactivation fee as established in Rule Chapter 64B24-3, F.A.C.;

(b)  No change.

(3)  For a license in retired status over five years, the licensee also must:

(a) Retake and pass the examination designated in Rule 64B24-2.003, F.A.C.;

(b) through (c)  renumbered (a) through (b) No change.

Specific Authority 456.036(15), 467.005 FS. Law Implemented   456.036(2), (4), (8), (12) FS. History–New 5-4-06, Amended_________.

NAME OF PERSON ORIGINATING PROPOSED RULE: Pamela King
NAME OF SUPERVISOR OR PERSON WHO APPROVED THE PROPOSED RULE: Lucy Gee
DATE PROPOSED RULE APPROVED BY AGENCY HEAD: June 9, 2006
DATE NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT PUBLISHED IN FAW: June 30, 2006