                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD (§ 54.1-310)

A. The Board shall have the following powers and duties:

   1. Provide a means of citizen access to the Department.

   2. Provide a means of publicizing the policies and programs of the Department
   in order to educate the public and elicit public support for Department
   activities.

   3. Monitor the policies and activities of the Department and have the right of
   access to departmental information.

   4. Review and comment on the budget for the Department.

   5. Advise the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Director on matters
   relating to the regulation or deregulation of professions and occupations.

   6. Promulgate regulations in accordance with the Administrative Process Act
   (&#xA7; 2.2-4000 et seq.) necessary to carry out its responsibilities.

   7. Evaluate each profession and occupation in the Commonwealth not otherwise
   regulated for consideration as to whether such profession or occupation should
   be regulated and, if so, the degree of regulation that should be imposed.
   Whenever it determines that the public interest requires that a profession or
   occupation which is not regulated by law should be regulated, the Board shall
   recommend to the General Assembly next convened a regulatory system
   accompanied by comprehensive regulations necessary to conduct the degree of
   regulation required.

   8. Review each profession and occupation regulated by the Department or
   regulatory boards within the Department, on a periodic basis, to determine
   whether it is in the public interest that the Department or appropriate
   regulatory board should (i) continue to regulate such profession or occupation
   at its current level of regulation, (ii) regulate such profession or
   occupation at a different level of regulation, or (iii) no longer regulate
   such profession or occupation. Whenever the Board determines that it is in the
   public interest for a profession or occupation to be regulated at a different
   level of regulation than its current level of regulation or to be deregulated,
   the Board shall make such recommendation to the General Assembly.

B. Upon the regulation of a profession or occupation as set forth in subsection
A, the Board shall have the power and duty to promulgate supplemental
regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes and intent of this chapter and
to establish regulatory boards to administer the system of regulation and the
regulations recommended by the Board and approved by the General Assembly.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 408, § 54-1.25; 1984, cc. 720, 734; 1988, c. 765; 2025, cc.
94, 107.