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Bill 4464

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                      4464
Type of Legislation:              General Bill GB
Introducing Body:                 House
Introduced Date:                  20000119
Primary Sponsor:                  Haskins
All Sponsors:                     Haskins
Drafted Document Number:          l:\council\bills\nbd\11649ac00.doc
Residing Body:                    House
Current Committee:                Medical, Military, Public and Municipal 
                                  Affairs Committee 27 H3M
Subject:                          Psychology licensure requirements, 
                                  certain persons addressing educational issues 
                                  exempt from; Psychologists


                        History

Body    Date      Action Description                     Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  ______________________________________ _______ ____________
House   20000119  Introduced, read first time,           27 H3M
                  referred to Committee


              Versions of This Bill

TO AMEND SECTION 40-55-90, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PERSONS EXEMPT FROM PSYCHOLOGY LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS, SO AS TO ADD AN EXEMPTION FOR PERSONS WHO ADMINISTER, SCORE, AND INTERPRET VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL TESTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIAGNOSING EDUCATIONAL CONCERNS AND PRESCRIBING EDUCATIONAL TREATMENT.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 40-55-90(A) of the 1976 Code, as amended by Act 396 of 1998, is further amended by adding at the end:

"(15) a professional, employed by a private or public agency in this State, who may not qualify as a psychologist, counselor, therapist, psycho-educational specialist, or addictions counselor, as defined in law, but who has graduate or doctoral level preparation, and holds a corresponding state or national credential, certificate, or license, as an educational diagnostician, educational consultant, educational therapist, learning consultant, learning specialist, psychometrist, or special educator and whose professional role includes administration, scoring, and interpretation of cognitive/intellectual, achievement, perceptual-motor, adaptive behavior, and career-vocational tests and other formal, standardized, norm-and criterion-related tests for the purpose of diagnosing educational concerns and subsequently prescribing educational treatment."

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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