SB0768sam001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Iris Y. Martinez

Filed: 3/28/2017

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 768

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 768 on page 10, by replacing lines 1 through 6 with the following:

"(5) The Secretary may shall consider the recommendation of the Board on all matters and questions relating to this Act, such as: (i) matters relating to continuing education, including the number of hours necessary for license renewal, waivers for those unable to meet such requirements, and acceptable course content and (ii) rules for administration of this Act."; and

by replacing line 21 on page 15 through line 2 on page 16 with the following:

"(c) Licensed social workers may not engage in independent practice of clinical social work without a clinical social worker license. In independent practice, a licensed social worker shall practice at all times under the order, control, and full professional responsibility of a licensed clinical social worker, a licensed clinical psychologist, a licensed clinical professional counselor, a licensed marriage and family therapist, or a psychiatrist, as defined in Section 1-121 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code."; and

on page 25, by replacing lines 1 through 6 with the following:

"(e) Failure of any person to submit to a mental or physical examination without reasonable cause, when ordered directed, shall result in an automatic be grounds for suspension of his or her a license until the person submits to the examination if the Board finds, after notice and hearing, that the refusal to submit to the examination was without reasonable cause.".