What is the primary function of the committee regarding hearing aids?

• A. To enforce disciplinary actions against licensees.
• B. To regulate medical procedures unrelated.
• C. To ascertain the facts concerning the dispensing and sale of hearing aids, promote health, safety, and welfare, and aid the committee in its powers; and to promulgate rules under the Administrative Procedures Act.
• D. To oversee advertising for hearing aids.

Answer: (C)

The main idea is that this committee serves as the fact-finding and rulemaking arm for hearing aid regulation. Its job is to gather and assess information about how hearing aids are dispensed and sold, with the aim of protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the public. It also helps the regulatory process by supporting the parent committee or board in exercising its powers and by drafting rules under the Administrative Procedures Act so those rules can be properly adopted. In practice, this means the committee investigates practice and makes recommendations that inform regulation, rather than directly imposing disciplinary penalties or handling unrelated medical procedures. Advertising oversight and disciplinary actions are handled through other parts of the regulatory framework.