On November 30, 2020, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing (DCCED/CBPL) adopted, as an emergency regulation, changes in Title 12, Chapter 02 of the Alaska Administrative Code. The regulations reflect recent emergency regulations from a number of professional licensing boards to provide for emergency courtesy licenses--in part to address the COVID-19 pandemic, and in part to address future disaster or urgent situations--the emergency regulations from DCCED/CBPL establish fees for the new licenses. The emergency regulations took effect on November 30, 2020 and will expire March 29, 2021 unless made permanent.

On January 15, 2021, DCCED/CBPL adopted the emergency regulation changes to be made permanent. The permanent regulation changes were reviewed and approved by the Department of Law, signed and filed by the Lieutenant Governor on February 17, 2021. See attached copy of the filed permanent regulations.

The new regulation changes will be printed in Register 237, April 2021 of the Alaska Administrative Code.