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On May 10, Governor Brownback of Kansas signed into law the most recent entrant in the occupational licensing reform sweepstakes, making his state the seventh in the past six weeks to enact substantial progressive legislation.  The new law borrows a number of features from the Institute of Justice‘s model occupational licensing law, including prohibiting consideration of non-conviction records, and convictions not “directly related to protecting the general welfare,” and affording aspiring applicants an opportunity for a  preliminary assessment of their eligibility and an “informal, written advisory opinion.”  It adds a feature from the recently enacted Indiana licensing law that bars consideration of most convictions after five years.  The new law also addresses health care licensure and employment.  Here’s a description of the new law that we just posted in the Restoration of Rights Project. Occupational and professional licensing Kan. Stat. Ann. § 74-120, originally enacted in 1972, provides as follows: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person, board, commission or similar body who determines the qualifications of individuals for licensure, certification or registration may consider any felony conviction of the applicant, but such a conviction shall not operate as a bar to licensure, certification or registration. In May 2018 […]

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