Resolve, Directing the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board To Amend Its Rules To Permit Certain Registered Nurses To Serve as Administrators of Nursing Facilities and To Change Provisions Governing Continuing Education Requirements
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0555
Committee: Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development
Sponsors: SANDERSON, HAMPER, GATTINE, HARVELL, MALABY, PETERSON, SIROCKI, CUSHING

Legislative Document 
No. 555 
H.P. 374 
House of Representatives, February 19, 2013 
Resolve, Directing the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing 
Board To Amend Its Rules To Permit Certain Registered Nurses To 
Serve as Administrators of Nursing Facilities and To Change 
Provisions Governing Continuing Education Requirements 
Reference to the Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development 
suggested and ordered printed. 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative SANDERSON of Chelsea. 
Cosponsored by Senator HAMPER of Oxford and 
Representatives: GATTINE of Westbrook, HARVELL of Farmington, MALABY of Hancock, 
PETERSON of Rumford, SIROCKI of Scarborough, Senator: CUSHING of Penobscot. 
Sec. 1.  Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board to amend rules. 
Resolved:  That the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Nursing 
Home Administrators Licensing Board, as established in the Maine Revised Statutes, 
Title 5, section 12004-A, subsection 23, shall amend its rules to: 
1.  Permit a licensed registered nurse who has at least 5 years' experience as a director 
of nursing at a licensed nursing facility to be provisionally licensed as a nursing home 
administrator for up to 5 years, if that licensed registered nurse: 
A.  Provides evidence satisfactory to the board that the licensed registered nurse is 
pursuing a course of action to fulfill the educational requirements in the board's rules 
and is reasonably likely to fulfill these requirements within this 5-year time frame; 
and 
B.  Has fulfilled all other applicable requirements for licensure established by the 
board, including without limitation a satisfactory score on the licensing examination 
prescribed by the board and satisfactory completion of the administrator-in-training 
program required by the board; and 
2.  Permit a licensed nursing home administrator to obtain as many continuing 
education credits as are offered at a conference or program of education with no limit on 
the total number of hours of course work actually completed as long as each hour has 
been approved for credit in accordance with the board's process for administering 
continuing education credits. The rules must require the board to provide a determination 
regarding the approval and allowability of continuing education credits within 30 days of 
the filing of the required information. The rules must allow for board approval of online 
seminars for continuing education credits. The rules must provide that a licensed nursing 
home administrator who is denied approval of continuing education credits by board staff 
may seek review of the denial by the board. 
Rules adopted pursuant to this resolve are routine technical rules as described in Title 
5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve directs the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, 
Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board to amend its rules regarding educational 
requirements for the licensing of administrators and continuing education requirements. 
First, it permits a licensed registered nurse who has at least 5 years' experience as a 
director of nursing at a licensed nursing facility to be provisionally licensed as a nursing 
home administrator for up to 5 years, if that licensed registered nurse provides evidence 
satisfactory to the board that the licensed registered nurse is pursuing a course of action to 
fulfill the educational requirements in the board's rules and is reasonably likely to fulfill 
these requirements within this 5-year time frame. 
Second, it removes the limit currently placed on the number of continuing education 
credits that a licensed nursing home administrator may earn at a conference or program as 
long as each credit separately qualifies under the board's standards for awarding credit. It 
provides for determinations regarding the approval and allowability of continuing 
education credits within 30 days of the filing of required information. The board may 
approve online seminars for continuing education credits. A licensed nursing home 
administrator who is denied approval of continuing education credits by board staff may 
seek review of such a denial by the board.