Brief Description: The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing proposes to update regulation changes made by emergency regulation regarding effective date of renewal licenses.
On September 9, 2022, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing (Division) adopted, as an emergency regulation, changes in 12 AAC 02.940 of the Alaska Administrative Code dealing with effective date of renewal licenses, including the following:
12 AAC 02.940. Effective date of renewed licenses, is proposed to be amended as follows:
“If an application and payment for renewal of a license is submitted but the division is unable to complete its review of the application before the expiration of the license, the license may be automatically extended for three months or until the division completes its review and either approves or denies the application, whichever occurs earlier”. This emergency regulation allows licensees to continue to work until their renewal license is processed by the division.
The emergency regulation took effect on September 12, 2022, and will expire January 9, 2023. The Division does not intend to make the emergency regulation permanent.
A copy of the filed finding of emergency and emergency regulation is available on the Alaska Online Public Notice System and by contacting Jun Maiquis at (907) 465-2537 or RegulationsAndPublicComment@alaska.gov, or go to https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/portals/5/pub/CBPL-EmergencyRegs-0922.pdf.
Statutory Authority: AS 08.01.050; AS 08.01.100
Statutes Being Implemented, Interpreted, or Made Specific: AS 08.01.050; AS 08.01.100
Fiscal Information: The regulations are not expected to require an increased appropriation.
DATE: 9/14/2022
Jun Maiquis, Regulations Specialist
Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing
For each occupation regulated under the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, the Division keeps a list of individuals or organizations who are interested in the regulations of that occupation. The Division automatically sends a Notice of Proposed Regulations to the parties on the appropriate list each time there is a proposed change in an occupation's regulations in Title 12 of the Alaska Administrative Code. If you would like your address added to or removed from such a list, send your request to the Division at the address above, giving your name, either your e-mail address or mailing address (as you prefer for receiving notices), and the occupational area in which you are interested.
ADDITIONAL REGULATION NOTICE INFORMATION
(AS 44.62.190(d))
1. Adopting agency: Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing.
2. General subject of regulation: Effective date of renewal licenses.
3. Citation of regulation: 12 AAC 02.940.
4. Department of Law file number: To be assigned.
5. Reason for the proposed action: Emergency regulation due to division staffing shortage that has created unusual delays in processing application for licensure as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
6. Appropriation/Allocation: Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing – #2360.
7. Estimated annual cost to comply with the proposed action to:
A private person: None known.
Another state agency: None known.
A municipality: None known.
8. Cost of implementation to the state agency and available funding (in thousands of dollars): No costs are expected in FY 2023 or in subsequent years.
9. The name of the contact person for the regulation:
Sara Chambers, Division Director
Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing
Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
E-mail: sara.chambers@alaska.gov
10. The origin of the emergency regulation action: Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing.
11. Date: 9/14/2022
Prepared by: Jun Maiquis
Regulations Specialist