Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF0304

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)