The council shall develop guidelines for the board to consider for rulemaking with regard to:

A. regulating the licensure of naturopathic doctors and determining the hours of continuing education units required for maintaining licensure as a naturopathic doctor;

B. prescribing the manner in which records of examinations and treatments shall be kept and maintained;

C. establishing standards for professional responsibility and conduct;

D. identifying disciplinary actions and circumstances that require disciplinary action;

E. developing a means to provide information to all licensees in the state;

F. providing for the investigation of complaints against licensees or persons holding themselves out as naturopathic doctors in the state;

G. providing for the publication of information for the public about licensees and the practice of naturopathic medicine in the state;

H. providing for an orderly process for reinstatement of a license;

I. establishing criteria for advertising or promotional materials;

J. establishing by rule, in accordance with the Naturopathic Doctors' Practice Act:

(1) continuing education hours and content;

(2) standards for the state jurisprudence examination;

(3) schedules for providing licensing examinations and for the issuance of examination results;

(4) procedures and standards for reviewing licensing examination scores; and

(5) procedures for reviewing transcripts demonstrating completion of the approved naturopathic medical educational program;

K. the requirements for issuance and renewal of licenses; and

L. any other matter necessary to implement the Naturopathic Doctors' Practice Act.

History: Laws 2019, ch. 244, § 12.

Effective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 244 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 14, 2019, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.