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STATE OF LOUISIANA °5,,.uu" DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE o rs92= rxr)' LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS P.O. BOX 4368 y • BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 °-'9zakso ,, (225)219-5600 •�"enc."d,, FAX:(225)381-7271 1-800-842-6630 www.ethics.la.gov January 23,2017 Ms. Wendy Fremin 725 McCulla Street Thibodaux,Louisiana 70301 Re: Louisiana Board of Ethics Docket No.2016-1201 Dear Ms. Fremin, The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its January 20,2017,meeting, considered your request for an advisory opinion regarding the post-employment restrictions that would apply after your retirement from the Health Standards Section of the Department of Health. In particular, your ability to provide future consulting services to Department of Health service providers. You stated that you have been employed by the Health Standards Section of the Department of Health since 2006, and that you currently work as a medical certification specialist. You provided that you are responsible for conducting licensing and relicensing, certification and recertification, complaint, validation, and physical environment surveys of non-long-term care facilities, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health service pro- viders, home health agencies, emergency transportation providers, and rural health clinics. You stated that you are not a supervisor or department head. You stated that you intend to offer educational opportunities to providers related to licens- ing and certification regulations, assistance in interpretation of regulations at the time of li- censing or in preparation of initial licensing, and assistance in completing plans of correc- tion following survey activity that has resulted in deficiencies. Generally, Section 1121B of the Code of Governmental Ethics ("Code"), containing the post-employment restrictions for former public employees,provides: No former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the ter- mination of his public employment, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public em- ployment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following termination of his public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had ren- dered to the agency during the term of his public employment on a contractu- AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER