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Committee advances bill to create optional registry for behavior analysts; oversight to sit with state psychology board
Summary
Lawmakers advanced a bill to create a voluntary state registry for behavior analysts, allowing those who register to be overseen by the Arkansas psychology board while permitting current providers to continue practicing without registering.
The House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee voted to advance a bill that would create an optional Arkansas registry for behavior analysts and give the state psychology board oversight of registrants.
Representative Clowney, sponsor of the bill, said the measure addresses a gap in state oversight for providers who work with children with autism. "If parents have concerns, have issues, have complaints, with the care that their children have received, There is no Arkansas based board that provides oversight of these practitioners," Clowney said.…
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