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SF 524 Senate Long Description

Establishing the board of licensed professional mental health counseling, specifying membership and duties; requiring and providing for the licensing of professional and associate mental health counselors, specifying qualification requirements and requiring a fee to be set by the board; specifying license renewal, education and continuing education requirements; providing for a license transition period and for licensing reciprocity; authorizing the addition of specialty designations to professional mental health counselor licenses under certain conditions; licenses to be nontransferable; specifying grounds for certain authorized disciplinary action by the board; prescribing penalties for violation of certain prohibitions; providing exceptions to the license requirements; regulating the disclosure of client communications; including professional mental health counselors in the definition of psychotherapist for sexual exploitation cause of action and criminal sexual conduct purposes(mk)