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Health & Welfare committee reviews H 237 to expand practice pathway for doctorate-level psychologists
Summary
Representative McFarland, reporter for H 237, told the Health & Welfare committee the bill aims to expand the workforce of doctorate-level psychologists, reduce emergency-room presentations of people in crisis and allow limited reciprocity for similarly trained out-of-state and Canadian clinicians. The committee took a 9-0-2 straw poll.
Representative McFarland, reporter for H 237, described a bill that would broaden the pathway for doctorate-level psychologists to provide specialized mental-health care and ease certification for clinicians trained outside the state.
The bill, discussed at a Health & Welfare committee meeting, would require clinicians to complete specified rotations and a collaborative agreement with a psychiatrist or a provider with psychiatric certification; it also contains a provision (Section 3(d)) that would allow clinicians…
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