Provides for mental health counselors. (5/1/15)
Enacting the art therapist licensure act to provide for the regulation and licensing of professional art therapists.
Enacting the art therapist licensure act to provide for the regulation and licensing of professional art therapists.
Relating to licensing by WV Board of Medicine
Makes technical corrections to various provisions of law within the purview of the legislative committees on health and welfare
Genetic counselors; board; licensure
Substitute for SB 131 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing the state board of healing arts to issue a sports waiver to practice healing arts professions in this state on a limited basis during certain sporting events, authorizing pharmacy technicians to administer certain vaccines, licensing of professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, behavior analysts, psychologists and master's level psychologists, requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to process applications within a certain time and establish an expedited application process, establishing license categories for applicants from social work programs in candidacy for accreditation and for temporary reinstatement; extending the license period of temporary licenses, establishing a community-based license for certain licensed professions.
Requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to process applications within a certain time, decreasing the years of practice required for reciprocity licensure of certain behavioral sciences professions, extending the license period for temporary licenses, establishing new license categories and decreasing continuing education requirements related to diagnosis and treatment.