An Act To Update the Licensure Renewal Provision of the Board of Licensure in Medicine
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 0593
Committee: Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development
Sponsors: BELLOWS, AUSTIN, CUSHING, GRATWICK, VOLK, BROOKS, FECTEAU, HYMANSON, LOCKMAN, MASTRACCIO
Amends: 32 MRSA §3280-A

Legislative Document
No. 593
S.P. 208
In Senate, February 16, 2017
An Act To Update the Licensure Renewal Provision of the Board of 
Licensure in Medicine
Submitted by the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation pursuant to Joint 
Rule 204.
Reference to the Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development 
suggested and ordered printed.
HEATHER J.R. PRIEST
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator BELLOWS of Kennebec.
Cosponsored by Representative AUSTIN of Gray and
Senators: CUSHING of Penobscot, GRATWICK of Penobscot, VOLK of Cumberland, 
Representatives: BROOKS of Lewiston, FECTEAU of Biddeford, HYMANSON of York, 
LOCKMAN of Amherst, MASTRACCIO of Sanford.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  32 MRSA §3280-A, sub-§1, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 526, §2 and 
affected by §4, is amended to read: 
B.    At least 60 days prior to expiration of a current license, the board shall mail to 
notify each licensee at the licensee's last known address a notice of the requirement to 
renew the license with appropriate application forms for the renewal.  Whenever a 
licensee fails, prior to the expiration of the licensee's current license, to return to the 
board a completed application either to renew the license or to withdraw from 
licensure, the board shall notify the licensee as soon as possible at the licensee's last 
known address that the license renewal is past due.  Thirty days after the notice has 
been sent, if the application has neither been submitted by the licensee nor returned 
by the United States Postal Service as undeliverable, the board shall notify the 
licensee by certified mail, return receipt requested, that the licensee's license has been 
administratively suspended for 30 days.  If an administratively complete relicensure 
application, pursuant to subsection 3, paragraph B, has not been submitted within the 
30-day period of administrative suspension, the license immediately and 
automatically lapses.  The board may not restore the license prior to completion of 
the reinstatement proceedings pursuant to subsection 4.  If an administratively 
complete license renewal application, as determined pursuant to subsection 3, 
paragraph B, has not been submitted prior to the expiration date of the existing 
license, the license immediately and automatically expires.  A license may be 
reinstated within 90 days after the date of expiration upon payment of the renewal fee 
and late fee.  If an administratively complete renewal application is not submitted 
within 90 days of the date of the expiration of the license, the license immediately 
and automatically lapses.  The board may reinstate a license that has lapsed pursuant 
to subsection 4. 
SUMMARY 
This bill removes certain explicit notification requirements of the Board of Licensure 
in Medicine to a physician whose license is about to expire or has expired.  This bill 
allows the board to reinstate the license of a physician whose license has expired if, 
within 90 days following the expiration of the license, the physician pays a renewal fee 
and a late fee.