HB 13-1104 Summary

• Removes requirement that mental health professionals provide mandatory client disclosures orally, allowing written-only disclosure during initial client contact.

• Changes peer health assistance program fee structure from indexing to consumer price index to annual director review based on program usage, maintaining $25 maximum fee cap.

• Requires peer health assistance programs to consider treatment costs and financial hardship when making referrals, offering discounted or alternative treatment options when necessary.

• Adds requirement that peer health assistance programs notify appropriate boards when mental health professionals successfully complete the program, triggering automatic license/certification reinstatement.

• Extends professional confidentiality protections, child abuse reporting requirements, and coroner access provisions to psychology candidates, marriage and family therapy candidates, and licensed professional counselor candidates.