The Health Licensing Office shall adopt rules to regulate the practice of lactation counselors and lactation educators. The rules must include at least rules to:

1. (1) Establish continuing education requirements for lactation counselors and lactation educators;
2. (2) Establish standards of practice for lactation counselors and lactation educators;
3. (3) Establish an authorization for lactation counselors and lactation educators;
4. (4) Prohibit the unauthorized practice as a lactation counselor or lactation educator, and prohibit the unauthorized use of the title “lactation counselor” or “lactation educator”; and
5. (5) Specify that a lactation counselor or lactation educator may provide services to a client who was pregnant regardless of the client’s birth outcome.

[2025 c.539 §14]