Report to the 86th Legislature: Sunset Advisory Commission Page: 16
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February 2019 Sunset Advisory Commission
Recommendations
Creation of the Behavioral Health Executive Council
" Consolidate the Board of Examiners of Marriage and FamilyTherapists, Board of Examiners of
Professional Counselors, and Board of Social Worker Examiners with the Board of Examiners of
Psychologists to create the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council.
" Direct the Behavioral Health Executive Council to develop policies and procedures to ensure its
rulemaking function focuses solely on creating rules governing administration of licensure, investigation,
and sanction procedures, and reviewing rules proposed by each licensing board for anti-competitive
impacts, administrative consistency, and good governance concerns - not infringing on matters
related to professional standards of practice. (Management action - nonstatutory)
" Update the standard across-the-board requirement related to board member training.
Licensing and Enforcement
" Require the boards to conduct fingerprint-based criminal background checks of all licensure
applicants and licensees.
" Authorize the boards to check for disciplinary actions in other states or from other licensing boards
and to pursue any necessary enforcement actions based on the results.
" Remove subjective licensure qualifications.
" Remove the statutory limitation currently restricting the boards' authority to lower fees.
" Remove the statutory requirement that marriage and family therapist applicants have 750 hours of
direct clinical services and authorize the marriage and family therapy board to establish the required
hours by rule.
" Remove the requirement for a separate provisional psychologist license and instead authorize the
board to grant provisional status to applicants for full licensure.
" Authorize the psychology board to provide biennial license renewal.
" Authorize the psychology board to issue remedial plans to resolve minor complaints.
" Clarify the psychology board's authority to require physical or mental evaluations and hold related
hearings for noncompliance.
" Extend confidentiality of complaint and investigative information to applicants and non-licensees.
Psychology Oral Exam
* Eliminate the authority for the psychology board to administer an oral exam.
Psychology Supervised Experience" Authorize the psychology board to count certain pre-doctoral internship hours toward the post-
doctoral supervision year.
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