81R14527 JAM-F
By: Wentworth S.B. No. 2133
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to license renewal requirements for licensed professional
counselors.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 503.354, Occupations Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d-1) and amending Subsection (e) to read as
follows:
(d-1) If a person's license has been expired for more than
one year but less than four years, and if the person has not been the
subject of any disciplinary action taken by or pending before the
board on or after the date the license expired, the person may renew
the license by:
(1) fulfilling continuing education requirements as
set by the board; and
(2) paying the renewal fees for each year in which the
license has been expired.
(e) A person whose license has been expired for four years
[one year] or more may not renew the license. The person may obtain
a new license by complying with the requirements and procedures for
obtaining an original license.
SECTION 2. Section 503.354, Occupations Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a licensed professional counselor license
renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A license
renewed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
in effect immediately before that date, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.