Bill Text: IL SB3406 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. Makes changes to the qualifications for licensure as a clinical psychologist. Requires that an applicant for licensure be 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 (rather than accredited by the American Psychological Association or approved by the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology or other national board).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-01 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0849 [SB3406 Detail]

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB3406 Introduced 2/14/2014, by Sen. Daniel Biss SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 15/10 from Ch. 111, par. 5360
Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. Makes changes to the qualifications for licensure as a clinical psychologist. Requires that an applicant for licensure be 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 (rather than accredited by the American Psychological Association or approved by the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology or other national board).
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A BILL FOR
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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(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2017)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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.)