(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.