Episode 98: Regulatory Environmental Scan – Emerging Pressures, Policy Shifts, and Innovation in Professional Regulation

During CLEAR’s recent midyear business meetings in Nashville, we conducted our annual environmental scan, asking committee members to share the top trends, challenges, and policy developments they’re seeing across jurisdictions. These environmental scans are consistently cited as one of the most valuable aspects of CLEAR’s committee work, offering early insight into emerging issues and practical approaches from colleagues around the globe. In this episode of Regulation Matters: a CLEAR conversation, we highlight key themes from this year’s discussions, including the expanding role of artificial intelligence in testing and fraud prevention, legislative and executive pressures on regulatory operations, labor mobility initiatives, internationally trained practitioner pathways, sunrise and sunset review trends, scope of practice expansion, neutrality legislation affecting professional regulation, and evolving approaches to delegation and public protection. Join us as we share insights from regulators and policy leaders across multiple jurisdictions, connecting CLEAR members to the conversations shaping professional regulation in 2026 and beyond. Transcript:

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Episode 98: Regulatory Environmental Scan – Emerging Pressures, Policy Shifts, and Innovation in Professional Regulation is an episode from Regulation Matters: a CLEAR conversation by Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation.

This episode is 38:59 long.

This episode was published on Feb 17, 2026.

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