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Committee considers bill to bar intrusive mental-health questions on professional licensing applications
Summary
House Bill 42-77 would amend the public health code to restrict licensure questions to current ability and risk to patient safety, aiming to reduce stigma and encourage health-care workers to seek mental-health care without fear of licensing consequences.
Representative Paul Bierlein introduced House Bill 42-77 to the House Health Policy Committee and spoke in favor of the legislation, saying narrowly tailored licensure questions protect patient safety without deterring clinicians from seeking mental-health care.
"In some states when medical professionals apply for a license or renew an existing one, they are asked to provide...questions related to their physical and mental health," Bierlein told the committee. "The reality is that many in the medical field chose not to get help for treatable mental health conditions because they fear it will endanger their license." He described HB 42-77 as a prophylactic measure that would limit licensing applications to two narrowly worded items:…
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