Pursuant to HB06-1041, the Statement of Purpose of the repeal and replacement of rules 3 through 10 in their entirety is for the general clarification, cleanup, and efficient management of the State Electrical Board, and for the safeguard of the general public as follows:
 	
•	General rules clarifications and administrative clean-up.
o	Reorganized chronologically for the ‘life of an electrician’.
o	Changed numbering style for easier (conversational) reference. 
o	Application retention.
o	Removed old effective dates, already in practice.
o	Notation of new 3-year renewal cycle, already in practice.
o	Add assessment to proprietary information.
o	Clarified foreign experience and foreign education submission requirements as the Board is seeing more applications with this experience/education.
o	Update to comply/meet with Continuing Competency requirements.
•	Licensure by endorsement – code version of exam taken should be current code.
•	Reinstating/reactivating licensees must complete prior required Professional Development Units (PDUs) before reinstatement/reactivation.
•	Non-Reciprocal license-holders to complete CC assessment.
o	Define “comparable license” in endorsement and add license designations to reinstatement, and reactivation sections, to reflect national licensing terms of residential, journeyman, and master licensing levels, already in practice.
•	Revised to remove overly restrictive practices.  
o	Removed requirement to provide supplemental reporting of maintenance experience.
o	Add use of simple Division forms to report experience to minimize delays in application review.
o	Allow master license applicants to submit other educational information for possible partial credit, as currently allowed for residential and journeyman applicants.
o	Allowance for military education credit.
o	Continuing Competency requirements
•	Removes Continuing Competency (CC) requirement to reinstate/reactivate a Colorado license for active reciprocal license-holders.
•	Removes the requirement to prove current years of practice to reinstate/reactivate a current license holder in non-reciprocal state by providing standard license verification and taking required CC assessment. 
•	Allow reporting of ‘classroom hours’ not strictly PDUs
•	Incorporated the following Board Policies, already in practice, into rule.
o	Apprentice Registration and Recordkeeping
o	Calculating Years of Experience 
o	Clarify Specific Types of Education from Statute
•	Community college degree
•	Trade school