E Establishing the board of licensed professional counseling, + 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; +authorizing the addition of specialty designations to professional counselor licenses+ under certain conditions; 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; requiring an interagency agreement between +the boards of licensed professional counseling and psychology for shared +administrative services; repealing the provisions providing for the office of mental+ health practice and unlicensed mental health practitioners and specifying +certain term striking instructions to the revisor of statutes (je, ja)