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    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2017)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