Public Act 098-0849
 
SB3406 EnrolledLRB098 19912 ZMM 55131 b


  
    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act is 
amended  by changing Section 10 as follows:
 



    (225 ILCS 15/10)  (from Ch. 111, par. 5360)



    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2017)

    Sec. 10. Qualifications of applicants; examination. The 
Department,
except as provided in Section 11 of this Act,
shall 
issue a license as a clinical psychologist to any person who 
pays an
application fee and who:


        (1) is at least 21 years of age; and has not engaged in 
    conduct or
activities which would constitute grounds for 
    discipline under this Act;


        (2) (blank);


        (3) is a graduate of a doctoral program from a college,

    university or school accredited by the regional 
    accrediting body which is
recognized by
the Council on 
    Postsecondary Accreditation and is in the jurisdiction
in 
    which it is located for purposes of granting the doctoral 
    degree and either:


            (a) is a graduate of a doctoral program in 
        clinical, school or
counseling psychology either 
        accredited by the American Psychological
Association 
        or the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation 
        System or approved by the Council for the National 
        Register of Health
Service Providers in Psychology or 
        other national board recognized by the
Board, and has 
        completed 2 years of satisfactory supervised

        experience
in clinical, school or counseling 
        psychology at least one of which is an
internship and 
        one of which is postdoctoral; or


            (b) holds a doctoral degree from a recognized 
        college, university or
school which the Department, 
        through its rules, establishes as being
equivalent to a 
        clinical, school or counseling psychology program and 
        has
completed at least one course in each of the 
        following 7 content areas, in
actual attendance at a 
        recognized university, college or school whose 
        graduates
would be eligible for licensure under this 
        Act:  scientific and
professional ethics, biological 
        basis of behavior, cognitive-affective
basis of 
        behavior, social basis of behavior, individual 
        differences,
assessment, and treatment modalities; and 
        has completed 2 years of
satisfactory supervised 
        experience in clinical, school or counseling

        psychology, at least one of which is an internship and  
        one of which is
postdoctoral; or



            (c) holds a doctorate in psychology or in a
program

        whose content is psychological in nature from an 
        accredited college,
university or school not meeting 
        the standards of paragraph (a) or (b) of
this 
        subsection (3) and provides
evidence of the completion 
        of at least one course in each of the 7
content areas 
        specified in paragraph (b) in actual attendance at a 
        recognized university,
school or college whose 
        graduate would be eligible for licensure under this

        Act; and has completed an appropriate practicum, an

        internship or
equivalent supervised clinical 
        experience in an organized mental health care
setting 
        and 2 years of satisfactory supervised experience in 
        clinical
or counseling psychology, at least one of 
        which is postdoctoral; and


        (4) has passed an examination authorized by the 
    Department to
determine his or her fitness to receive a 
    license.

Applicants for licensure under subsection (3)(a) and
(3)(b) of

this Section shall complete 2 years of satisfactory supervised

experience, at
least one of which shall be an internship and 
one of which shall be
postdoctoral.  A year of supervised 
experience is defined as not less than
1,750 hours obtained in 
not less than 50 weeks based on 35 hours per week
for full-time 
work experience.  Full-time supervised experience will be

counted only if it is obtained in a single setting for a 
minimum of 6 months.
Part-time and internship experience will 
be counted only if it
is 18 hours or more a week for a minimum 
of 9 months and is in a
single setting.  The internship 
experience required under
subsection
(3)(a) and (3)(b) of this 
Section shall be a
minimum of 1,750 hours completed within 24 
months.

    Programs leading to a doctoral degree require minimally the 
equivalent
of 3 full-time academic years of graduate study, at 
least 2 years of
which are at the institution from which the 
degree is granted, and of which
at least one year or its 
equivalent is in residence at the institution from
which the 
degree is granted. Course work for which credit is given for 
life
experience will not be accepted by the Department as 
fulfilling the
educational requirements for licensure.  
Residence requires interaction
with psychology faculty and 
other matriculated psychology students; one
year's residence 
or its equivalent is defined as follows:


        (a) 30 semester hours taken on a full-time or part-time 
    basis at the
institution accumulated within 24 months, or


        (b) a minimum of 350 hours of student-faculty contact 
    involving
face-to-face individual or group courses or 
    seminars accumulated within 18
months.  Such educational 
    meetings must include both faculty-student and

    student-student interaction, be conducted by the 
    psychology faculty of the
institution at least 90% of the 
    time, be fully documented by the
institution, and relate 
    substantially to the program and course content.
The 
    institution must clearly document how the applicant's 
    performance is
assessed and evaluated.

    To meet the requirement for satisfactory supervised 
experience, under
this Act the supervision must be performed 
pursuant to the order, control
and full professional 
responsibility of a licensed clinical psychologist.
The 
clients shall be the clients of the agency or supervisor rather 
than
the supervisee.  Supervised experience in which the 
supervisor receives
monetary payment or other consideration 
from the supervisee or in which the
supervisor is hired by or 
otherwise employed by the supervisee shall not be
accepted by 
the Department as fulfilling the practicum, internship or 2

years of satisfactory supervised experience requirements for 
licensure.

    Examinations for applicants under this Act shall be held at 
the direction
of the Department from time to time but not less 
than once each year.  The
scope and form of the examination 
shall be determined by the Department.

    Each applicant for a license who possesses the necessary 
qualifications
therefor shall be examined by the Department, 
and shall pay to the
Department, or its designated testing 
service, the required examination
fee, which fee shall not be 
refunded by the Department.

    Applicants have 3 years from the date of application to 
complete the
application process.  If the process has not been 
completed in 3 years, the
application shall be denied, the fee 
shall be forfeited, and the applicant must
reapply and meet the 
requirements in effect at the time of reapplication.

    An applicant has one year from the date of notification of

successful completion of the examination to apply to the 
Department for a
license.  If an applicant fails to apply within 
one year, the applicant shall
be required to take and pass the 
examination again unless licensed in
another jurisdiction of 
the United States within one year of passing the
examination.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)