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The Office of Professional Licensure Review, the state body that examines whether occupational licensing rules are necessary and appropriate, would see updates to how it conducts and documents its work under this bill. It would formally define "harm" as a present, recognizable, and significant harm to public health, safety, or financial welfare, and would require the office to document specific findings—such as whether harm exists and, if so, its severity, probability, and permanence—each time it reviews an occupational regulation. The office would also be required to review and respond to inquiries from members of the public about occupational regulations, though this duty would be limited by the office's available capacity and resources, and the office would have to identify and notify the state legislators who represent anyone who submits such an inquiry. Finally, the bill would require the office's annual report to the Legislature to summarize responses to inquiries from both legislators and members of the public, rather than just legislators as under current law.