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IN HB1059
Bill
Status
1/22/2018
Primary Sponsor
Ronald Bacon
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AI Summary
- Removes references to "certified" health care professionals from behavioral health and human services licensing law, retaining only "licensed" professionals
- Allows students, interns, and trainees in accredited postsecondary or training institutions to perform addiction counseling under qualified supervision without being subject to licensing restrictions
- Requires licensed addiction counselors and clinical addiction counselors to display their license at each practice location and include "licensed addiction counselor," "licensed clinical addiction counselor," "LAC," or "LCAC" on all promotional materials
- Updates educational institution accreditation requirements to reference the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) instead of the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation
- Modifies clinical experience requirements for licensed clinical addiction counselors, reducing required supervision hours from 105 to 100 hours and replacing "treatment planning" with "group work" in curriculum requirements
Legislative Description
Professional licensing agency. Removes references in behavioral health and human services licensing law to certified health care professionals. Specifies that the statutes concerning behavioral health and human services professionals may not be construed to limit addiction counseling performed by certain students, interns, and trainees studying in certain institutions. Requires an individual who is licensed as an addiction counselor or a clinical addiction counselor to: (1) display a counselor license or a clear copy of a counselor license at each location where the addiction counselor or clinical addiction counselor regularly practices; and (2) include certain information on the individual's professional marketing
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology
2/1/2018