Health Care Licenses Committee
Filed: 3/10/2010
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5792
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5792 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
| 5 | Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 1-122 as | ||||||
| 6 | follows: | ||||||
| 7 | (405 ILCS 5/1-122) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-122) | ||||||
| 8 | Sec. 1-122. Qualified examiner. "Qualified examiner" means | ||||||
| 9 | a person
who is: | ||||||
| 10 | (a) a Clinical
social worker as defined in this Act, | ||||||
| 11 | (b) a registered nurse with
a master's degree in | ||||||
| 12 | psychiatric nursing who has 3 years of clinical
training and | ||||||
| 13 | experience in the evaluation and treatment
of mental illness | ||||||
| 14 | which has been acquired subsequent to any training
and | ||||||
| 15 | experience which constituted a part of the degree program, or | ||||||
| 16 | (c) a
licensed
clinical professional counselor with a | ||||||
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| 1 | master's or doctoral degree in
counseling or psychology or a | ||||||
| 2 | similar master's or doctorate program from a
regionally | ||||||
| 3 | accredited institution who has at least 3 years of supervised
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| 4 | postmaster's clinical professional counseling experience
that | ||||||
| 5 | includes the
provision of mental health services for the | ||||||
| 6 | evaluation, treatment, and
prevention of mental and emotional | ||||||
| 7 | disorders, or . | ||||||
| 8 | (d) a licensed marriage and family therapist with a | ||||||
| 9 | master's or doctoral degree in marriage and family therapy from | ||||||
| 10 | a regionally accredited educational institution or a similar | ||||||
| 11 | master's program or from a program accredited by either the | ||||||
| 12 | Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy or | ||||||
| 13 | the Commission on Accreditation for Counseling Related | ||||||
| 14 | Educational Programs, who has at least 3 years of supervised | ||||||
| 15 | post-master's experience as a marriage and family therapist | ||||||
| 16 | that includes the provision of mental health services for the | ||||||
| 17 | evaluation, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional | ||||||
| 18 | disorders. | ||||||
| 19 | A social worker who is a qualified examiner shall be a | ||||||
| 20 | licensed clinical
social worker under the Clinical Social Work | ||||||
| 21 | and Social Work Practice Act. | ||||||
| 22 | (Source: P.A. 91-536, eff. 1-1-00.)".
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