{"id":"WV-025","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"West Virginia","state":"WV","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Jim Justice","authority":"W. Va. Code 15-5-6","instrument":"Executive Order 31-20","title":"Suspension of dental and dental hygiene clinical-examination licensure requirements; provisional licenses; speech-language pathology telepractice","dateIssued":"2020-04-28","effective":"2020-04-28","end":"Kept in force by EO 12-21 paragraph 2(j) (Apr. 20, 2021); provisional licenses expire Feb. 1, 2021 by their terms","startDate":"2020-04-28","endDate":"2021-04-20","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["Board of Dentistry","dental and dental hygiene licensure applicants","Department of Education speech-language pathologists and audiologists"],"clause":"the following statutory regulations are to be suspended for the duration of the State of Emergency: 1. In the discretion of the West Virginia Board of Dentistry who shall issue additional guidance, the requirement that an applicant for initial licensure as a dentist have passed a clinical examination (W. Va. Code 30-4-8(a)(4));... 3.... that the Board of Dentistry shall provide a provisional license to an initial applicant, who is a 2020 [graduate] of a dental or dental hygiene program... The provisional license shall expire no later than February 1, 2021...","enforcement":"Board of Dentistry discretion","functions":["HR credentialing (dental)","TM telepractice"],"notes":"Recital: the Board of Dentistry\u0027s regulatory process was itself disrupted (clinical examinations could not be held).","sourceUrl":"https://governor.wv.gov/Documents/2020%20Executive%20Orders/Executive-Order-April-28-2020-Dentists-Speech-Pathologists.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200602053153/https://governor.wv.gov/Documents/2020%20Executive%20Orders/Executive-Order-April-28-2020-Dentists-Speech-Pathologists.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":135081,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"WV","url":"/library/WV-025","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/WV-025","citation":"Governor Jim Justice, Executive Order 31-20 (Apr. 28, 2020) (Ex. WV-025)","stateName":"West Virginia","related":["WV-024","WV-026","WV-027","WV-028","WV-023","WV-029","WV-022","WV-030","WV-021","WV-020","WV-019","WV-031"]}