§9–2415.

    (a)    The Board may establish criteria for the development of portfolios and separate requirements in the following specialist areas:

        (1)    legal settings;

        (2)    medical settings;

        (3)    behavioral health settings;

        (4)    language pairs other than American Sign Language and spoken English;

        (5)    conference interpreting;

        (6)    tactile and low–vision sign language interpretation services;

        (7)    intralinguistic translations and sign language interpretation; and

        (8)    any other specialist areas determined to be necessary by the Board.

    (b)    The Board shall adopt regulations to:

        (1)    govern sign language interpretation services provided in a video remote interpreting setting;

        (2)    establish licensing and certification standards of interpreting agencies that do business in the State;

        (3)    allow deaf and hard of hearing individuals to determine whether they prefer sign language interpretation services being provided in a video remote interpreting setting or through in–person interpreting; and

        (4)    provide sign language interpretation services in a video remote interpreting setting.