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    AN ACT concerning regulation.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Professional Counselor and Clinical 
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Professional Counselor
Licensing Act is amended  by changing 
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Section 20 as follows:
 



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    (225 ILCS 107/20)



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    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2013)

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    Sec. 20. Restrictions and limitations. 

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    (a) No person shall, without a valid license as a 
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professional
counselor issued by the Department: (i) in any 
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manner hold himself or
herself out to the public as a 
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professional counselor
under this Act; (ii) attach the title 
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"professional counselor" or "licensed
professional
counselor"; 
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or (iii) offer to render or render to individuals,

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corporations, or the public professional counseling services

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if
the words "professional counselor" or "licensed 
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professional counselor" are
used to describe
the person 
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offering to render or rendering them, or "professional

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counseling" is used to describe the services rendered
or 
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offered to be rendered.

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    (b) No person shall, without a valid license as a clinical 
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professional
counselor issued by the Department: (i) in any 
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manner hold himself or
herself out to the public as a clinical 
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professional counselor or licensed
clinical professional 
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counselor
under this Act; (ii) attach the title "clinical 
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professional counselor" or
"licensed clinical professional

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counselor"; or (iii) offer to render to individuals, 
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corporations, or the
public clinical professional counseling 
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services.

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    (c) Licensed professional counselors may not engage in 
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independent
private practice as defined in this Act without
a 
 


 






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clinical professional counseling license.
In an independent 
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private practice, a licensed professional counselor must

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practice at all
times under the order, control, and full 
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professional responsibility of a
licensed clinical 
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professional counselor, a licensed clinical social
worker, a 
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licensed clinical psychologist, or a psychiatrist, as defined 
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in
Section 1-121 of the Mental Health and Developmental 
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Disabilities Code.

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    (d) No association or partnership shall
practice clinical 
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professional counseling or professional counseling unless

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every member, partner, and employee of the association or 
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partnership who
practices professional counseling or clinical 
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professional counseling,
or who renders professional 
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counseling or clinical
professional counseling services, holds 
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a currently
valid license issued under this Act. No license 
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shall be issued to a
corporation, the stated purpose of which 
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includes or which practices or
which holds itself out as 
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available to practice professional counseling or
clinical 
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professional counseling unless it is organized under the

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Professional Service Corporation Act.

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    (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting 
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persons
licensed as professional counselors or clinical 
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professional counselors to
engage in any manner in the practice 
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of medicine in all its branches as defined
by law in this 
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State.

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    (f) When, in the course of providing professional 
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counseling or clinical
professional counseling services to any 
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person, a professional counselor or
clinical professional 
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counselor licensed under this Act finds indication of
a disease 
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or condition that in his or her professional judgment requires

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professional service outside the scope of practice as defined 
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in this Act,
he or she shall refer that person to a physician 
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licensed to practice
medicine in all of its branches or another 
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appropriate health care
practitioner.

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(Source: P.A. 92-719, eff. 7-25-02.)