645—261.2(148G,152B) General requirements for licensure. The following general criteria apply to licensure:
	261.2(1) An applicant must submit a completed online application for licensure and pay the nonrefundable licensure fee specified in rule 645—5.17(147,152B). The applicant must submit two completed sets of fingerprint cards to facilitate a national criminal history background check. The cost for the evaluation of the fingerprint cards and the criminal history background checks by the Iowa division of criminal investigation (DCI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal history background checks is assessed to the applicant. The board may withhold issuing a license pending receipt of a report from the DCI and FBI.
	a. 	An applicant must submit a release authorizing the background check.
	b. 	Licensees who were issued their licenses within six months prior to the renewal do not need to renew their licenses until the renewal month two years later.
	c. 	An applicant who has been a licensed respiratory care practitioner, polysomnographic technologist, or respiratory care and polysomnography practitioner under the laws of another jurisdiction shall provide verification of license from the jurisdiction in which the applicant has most recently been licensed. Verification shall be sent directly from the jurisdiction to the board office. The applicant must also disclose any public or pending complaints against the applicant in any other jurisdiction. Web-based verification may be substituted for verification direct from the jurisdiction’s board office if the verification provides:
	(1)	Licensee’s name;
	(2)	Date of initial licensure;
	(3)	Current licensure status; and
	(4)	All disciplinary action taken against the license.
	261.2(2) Incomplete applications that have been on file in the board office for more than two years will be considered invalid and destroyed.
[ARC 8073C, IAB 6/26/24, effective 7/31/24]