641—33.21(17A) Prehearing conferences.
	33.21(1) Any party may request a prehearing conference. Prehearing conferences will be conducted by the executive officer or designee, who may request the assistance of an administrative law judge. A written request for prehearing conference or an order for prehearing conference on the executive officer’s own motion shall be filed not less than ten days prior to the hearing date. A prehearing conference will be scheduled not less than five business days prior to the hearing date. The executive officer shall set a prehearing conference in all licensee disciplinary cases and provide notice of the date and time in the notice of hearing. Written notice of the prehearing conference will be given by the executive officer to all parties. For good cause the executive officer may permit variances from this rule.
	33.21(2) The parties at a prehearing conference will be prepared to discuss the following subjects, and the executive officer or administrative law judge may issue appropriate orders concerning:
	a. 	The possibility of settlement.
	b. 	The entry of a scheduling order to include deadlines for completion of discovery.
	c. 	Stipulations of law or fact.
	d. 	Stipulations on the admissibility of evidence.
	e. 	Submission of expert or other witness lists. Witness lists may be amended subsequent to the prehearing conference within the time limits established by the executive officer or administrative law judge at the prehearing conference. Witnesses not listed on the final witness list may be excluded from testifying unless there was good cause for the failure to include their names.
	f. 	Submission of exhibit lists. Exhibit lists may be amended subsequent to the prehearing conference within the time limits established by the executive director or administrative law judge at the prehearing conference. Other than rebuttal exhibits, exhibits that are not listed on the final exhibit list may be excluded from admission into evidence unless there was good cause for the failure to include them.
	g. 	Stipulations for waiver of any provision of law.
	h. 	Identification of matters that the parties intend to request to be officially noticed.
	i. 	Consideration of any additional matters that will expedite the hearing.
	33.21(3) Prehearing conferences may be conducted by telephone unless otherwise ordered.
[ARC 7999C, IAB 5/15/24, effective 6/19/24]