Public Hearing - Licensed Dieticians

Public Hearing - Licensed Dietitians

Dear Licensee,

We want to welcome you to a public hearing scheduled for Friday, September 13,
2024, at 9:15 a.m. Interested parties are welcome to attend the hearing or submit
comments.

The hearing will cover updates to the following rules:

Diet 100 - Organizational Rules:

The Board of Licensed Dietitians is proposing to repeal and readopt sections of Diet
100. Key changes include:

• Diet 103.02 - Updating the Board’s responsibilities by removing tasks now assigned to the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (effective July15, 2023).
• Diet 103.03 - Changing the wording to specify that the chairperson is "elected" rather than "selected."
• Diet 103.0 - Repealing the rule on board members’ ineligibility to participate in certain proceedings.
• Diet 103.07 - Repealing the rule related to public access to meeting minutes.
• Diet 104 - Updating office location, mailing address, and contact information by specifying that correspondence should be directed to the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification.
• Diet 104.02 - Changing how people can access records and meeting minutes by directing them to procedures in Plc 103.

Diet 500 - Ethical Standards:

The Board is proposing to readopt and amend Chapter Diet 500 as follows:

• Diet 501.01 - Clarifying that anyone practicing in NH must follow these ethical rules.
• Diet 501.02 - Rewording parts of the rules, such as:
  • Changing “violation of the ethics shall result in disciplinary actions” to “violation of the ethics shall constitute misconduct subject to disciplinary action.”
  • Updating the phrase “professional conduct” to “ethical standards.”
  • Making editorial changes and removing the requirement to update your business and home address within 30 days.
• Diet 501.03 - Replacing the detailed list of ethics with a reference to the latest version of the Code of Ethics for the Nutrition and Dietetics Profession (September 2018).

If you can’t attend, you can still send written comments by email to oplcrules@oplc.nh.gov by Monday, September 23, 2024, at 4:00 p.m.

You can find more details and the full proposal here.

Thank you,

Office of Professional Licensure and Certification