Public Act 094-0765
 
SB2345 Enrolled LRB094 16207 RAS 51451 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Professional Counselor and Clinical
Professional Counselor Licensing Act is amended by changing
Section 20 as follows:
 
    (225 ILCS 107/20)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2013)
    Sec. 20. Restrictions and limitations.
    (a) No person shall, without a valid license as a
professional counselor issued by the Department: (i) in any
manner hold himself or herself out to the public as a
professional counselor under this Act; (ii) attach the title
"professional counselor" or "licensed professional counselor";
or (iii) offer to render or render to individuals,
corporations, or the public professional counseling services
if the words "professional counselor" or "licensed
professional counselor" are used to describe the person
offering to render or rendering them, or "professional
counseling" is used to describe the services rendered or
offered to be rendered.
    (b) No person shall, without a valid license as a clinical
professional counselor issued by the Department: (i) in any
manner hold himself or herself out to the public as a clinical
professional counselor or licensed clinical professional
counselor under this Act; (ii) attach the title "clinical
professional counselor" or "licensed clinical professional
counselor"; or (iii) offer to render to individuals,
corporations, or the public clinical professional counseling
services.
    (c) Licensed professional counselors may not engage in
independent private practice as defined in this Act without a
clinical professional counseling license. In an independent
private practice, a licensed professional counselor must
practice at all times under the order, control, and full
professional responsibility of a licensed clinical
professional counselor, a licensed clinical social worker, a
licensed clinical psychologist, or a psychiatrist, as defined
in Section 1-121 of the Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code.
    (d) No association or partnership shall practice clinical
professional counseling or professional counseling unless
every member, partner, and employee of the association or
partnership who practices professional counseling or clinical
professional counseling, or who renders professional
counseling or clinical professional counseling services, holds
a currently valid license issued under this Act. No license
shall be issued to a corporation, the stated purpose of which
includes or which practices or which holds itself out as
available to practice professional counseling or clinical
professional counseling unless it is organized under the
Professional Service Corporation Act.
    (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting
persons licensed as professional counselors or clinical
professional counselors to engage in any manner in the practice
of medicine in all its branches as defined by law in this
State.
    (f) When, in the course of providing professional
counseling or clinical professional counseling services to any
person, a professional counselor or clinical professional
counselor licensed under this Act finds indication of a disease
or condition that in his or her professional judgment requires
professional service outside the scope of practice as defined
in this Act, he or she shall refer that person to a physician
licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches or another
appropriate health care practitioner.
(Source: P.A. 92-719, eff. 7-25-02.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2007