0001|               HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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0002|                           HOUSE BILL 1155
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0003|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0011|                                AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO LICENSURE; ENACTING A TEMPORARY PROVISION FOR
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0013|     LICENSURE AS A PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  TEMPORARY PROVISION--PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL
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0017|     MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR--LICENSURE WITHOUT EXAMINATION.--An
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0018|     applicant for licensure as a professional clinical mental
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0019|     health counselor shall be licensed without examination if the
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0020|     applicant:
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0021|               A.  applied for licensure within one year of the
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0022|     1993 effective date of the Counseling and Therapy Practice Act;
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0023|               B.  has been engaged in full-time practice of
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0024|     professional clinical mental health counseling for at least
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0025|     fifteen consecutive years prior to the effective date of
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0001|     licensure;
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0002|               C.  obtained, prior to commencing practice as a
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0003|     professional clinical mental health counselor, a master's or
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0004|     doctoral degree in counseling, psychology or a closely related
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0005|     field, including special education of the emotionally
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0006|     disturbed, art therapy or expressive arts therapy, from an
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0007|     accredited institution; 
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0008|               D.  has been certified to the board as competent by
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0009|     at least three persons who have practiced as professional
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0010|     mental health counselors or state-licensed psychologists or
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0011|     psychiatrists with the applicant anytime during that fifteen-
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0012|     year period; and
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0013|               E.  submits a letter requesting licensure without
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0014|     examination to the board within ninety days of the effective
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0015|     date of this 1997 act.
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0016|          Section 2.  DELAYED REPEAL.--The provisions of this 1997
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0017|     act are repealed effective September 30, 1997.
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