Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1721

2E Relating to health licensing

ARTICLE 1 - ALCOHOL AND DRUG
COUNSELORS

Establishing licensure requirements for alcohol and drug
counselors; providing for data sharing and classification; providing governance
and specifications for law application, definitions, board of behavioral health
and therapy duties, licensure requirements, reciprocity, temporary permits,
supervised postdegree professional practice, alcohol and drug counselor
technician, license renewal, expired licenses, voluntary termination,
relicensure following termination, inactive license status, continuing
education, sponsor's application for approval, nontransferability of licenses,
license denial, suspension or revocation, additional remedies, investigation
cooperation, prohibited practice or use of titles and penalty, license
requirement exceptions, fees, conduct, competent provision of services, client
privacy protection, private information access and release, informed consent,
termination of services, record keeping, impaired objectivity or effectiveness,
provider impairment, client welfare, student, supervisees, and research
subjects' welfare, medical and health care considerations, assessments and
reports, public statements, fee statements, aiding and abetting unlicensed
practice, law violations, and board complaints; requiring the board of
behavioral health and therapy to convene a working group and make a report to
the legislature by a certain date; repealing current alcohol and drug counselors
licensing statutes and rules and obsolete language; revisor
instructions

ARTICLE 2 - LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING

Modifying
certain licensed professional clinical counselor general requirements;
establishing provisions relating to conversion from a licensed professional
counselor to a licensed professional clinical counselor; modifying certain
continuing education provisions related to license renewal
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