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Ex. WV-025 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 31-20

Suspension of dental and dental hygiene clinical-examination licensure requirements; provisional licenses; speech-language pathology telepractice

Governor Jim Justice · West Virginia (State)

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Jurisdiction
West Virginia
Level
State
Authority
W. Va. Code 15-5-6
Issued
2020-04-28 Apr. 28, 2020
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 (read as 2021-04-20)
In force
Apr. 28, 2020 to Apr. 20, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care orders
Addressees
  • Board of Dentistry
  • dental and dental hygiene licensure applicants
  • Department of Education speech-language pathologists and audiologists
Functions reached
  • HR credentialing (dental)
  • TM telepractice
Collection
West Virginia WV

Operative words

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

Notes

Recital: the Board of Dentistry's regulatory process was itself disrupted (clinical examinations could not be held).

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