Relating to health occupations; expanding the scope of practice of +pharmacy to provide for participation in administration of influenza and +pneumococcal vaccines to adults under standing orders from the written protocol +with licensed physicians, specifying certain pharmacist training and +reporting requirements; exempting certain occupational therapists with lapsed +licenses from the renewal late fee payment requirement upon presenting +evidence of a current and unrestricted credential for the practice of occupational +therapy in another jurisdiction during the period of lapse; establishing the +board of behavioral health and therapy, defining licensed professional +counseling and the scope of practice of licensed professional counselors and +specifying board membership and duties, requiring and specifying certain qualification requirements for licensure by the board as a licensed professional +counselor (LPC), sunsetting the minimum semester hour requirement, requiring +payment of a nonrefundable fee to be set by the board, specifying license renewal +and continuing education requirements, providing for a license transition+ period and for licensing reciprocity, licenses to be nontransferable, +specifying grounds for certain disciplinary action by the board, prohibiting +practice without a license and the unauthorized use of certain titles, +providing exceptions to the license requirements, regulating the disclosure of +client communications; including licensed professional counselors in the +definition of psychotherapist for sexual exploitation cause of action and criminal +sexual conduct purposes and in the definition of licensed person for acts +against minors complaint investigation purposes; authorizing an interagency +agreement between the boards of licensed professional counseling and psychology+ for shared administrative services; requiring the boards of behavioral +health and therapy and marriage and family therapy to develop recommendations on+ merging the boards into one inclusive regulatory board, specifying certain recommendations requirements and requiring submission to the +legislature by a certain date; transferring the powers and duties of the commissioner +of health relating to alcohol and drug counselors to the board of behavioral +health and therapy; repealing the provisions providing for the office of mental +health practice and unlicensed mental health practitioners and specifying +certain term insertion and striking instructions to the revisor of statutes (Ch. 118, 2003)