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The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR)
held a public hearing this afternoon concerning the proposed
amendment to 5 CSR 100-200.170 (the Skill Level Standards rule). The
only issue in contention was whether or not holders of an RID CI/CT
or CSC certificate should be treated as where they can work in
Missouri. The proposed rule amendment treats an RID CI/CT or CSC
holder as if they had an MICS Advanced (Level 4) certification, but
some opponents of the rule wanted RID CI/CT or CSC certificate
holders to be treated as if they had an MICS Comprehensive (Level 5)
certification.
Testifying in opposition to the proposed amendment were Alta
Bradshaw (Deaf Interlink), Kathleen Alexander (member of the
Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing), Glenace
Humphrey (Region 4 Representative to the RID Board of Directors),
Laura Forbes (President of the St. Louis Chapter of RID), Barbara
Bogomolove (BJC Health Care), Clay Nettles (Executive Director of
RID), and Jake Thomas (National Testing Coordinator of RID).
Testifying in support of the proposed amendment were Dr. Roy Miller
(Executive Director of MCDHH), Kandice Allee (Executive
Assistant/Staff Interpreter of MCDHH), Dan Betzler (member of the
Board for Certification of Interpreters), Nina Wilson (member of the
Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing), Kim Davis
(Workshop/Training Specialist of MCDHH), Mary Luebke (member of the
Board for Certification of Interpreters), Paul Blicharz (member of
the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing), and Ula Williams (Director of the Maplewoods Community
College Interpreter Training Program). Written testimony was also
submitted by Amy Fowler (Coordinator of the MICS).
At the end of a long afternoon of sometimes very confusing
discussion the members of JCAR voted to accept the proposed
amendment to the Skill Level Standards rule, declaring that it was
neither "arbitrary and capricious" nor "unreasonable burdensome on
persons affected" by the rule.
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