Resolve, To Direct the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation To Create a Working Group To Study Credentialing Skilled Individuals with Foreign Credentials
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0769
Committee: Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business
Sponsors: TEPLER, SANBORN, CLOUTIER, COLLINGS, DAUGHTRY, GATTINE, JORGENSEN, MASTRACCIO, MORALES, BELLOWS

Legislative Document
No. 769
H.P. 574
House of Representatives, February 12, 2019
Resolve, To Direct the Commissioner of Professional and Financial 
Regulation To Create a Working Group To Study Credentialing 
Skilled Individuals with Foreign Credentials
Reference to the Committee on Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and 
Business suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative TEPLER of Topsham.
Cosponsored by Senator SANBORN, H. of Cumberland and
Representatives: CLOUTIER of Lewiston, COLLINGS of Portland, DAUGHTRY of 
Brunswick, GATTINE of Westbrook, JORGENSEN of Portland, MASTRACCIO of Sanford, 
MORALES of South Portland, Senator: BELLOWS of Kennebec.
Sec. 1.  Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation to create 
working group to study credentialing skilled individuals who have foreign 
credentials. Resolved:  That the Commissioner of Professional and Financial 
Regulation shall create a working group to study credentialing skilled individuals who 
have foreign credentials.  The commissioner shall appoint to the working group no fewer 
than 8 and no more than 10 members who represent licensing boards and professional 
organizations served by the licensing boards in professions for which there is a need for 
and an opportunity to credential skilled individuals with foreign credentials.  The working 
group shall consider and develop recommendations for alternative pathways for skilled 
individuals with foreign credentials to be credentialed in the State.
Sec. 2.  Report. Resolved:  That by November 4, 2020 the working group created 
pursuant to section 1 shall submit a report of its findings under section 1 along with any 
recommendations and suggested legislation to the Governor and the Commissioner of 
Professional and Financial Regulation.  The commissioner shall submit the report with 
any recommendations and suggested legislation to the Joint Standing Committee on 
Labor and Housing.  The committee may report out a bill relating to the subject matter of 
the report to the First Regular Session of the 130th Legislature.
SUMMARY
This resolve directs the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation to 
create a working group to study credentialing skilled individuals with foreign credentials 
in the State.  The working group consists of 8 to 10 members representing licensing 
boards and professional organizations served by the licensing boards in professions for 
which there is a need for and an opportunity to credential skilled individuals with foreign 
credentials.  The working group is required to submit its report along with any 
recommendations and suggested legislation to the Governor and the Commissioner of 
Professional and Financial Regulation.   The commissioner is required to submit the 
report with any recommendations and suggested legislation to the Joint Standing 
Committee on Labor and Housing.  The committee is permitted to report out a bill 
relating to the subject matter of the report to the First Regular Session of the 130th 
Legislature.