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Senate approves bill limiting unregulated mental-health marketing; creates enforcement fund
Summary
Senate Bill 48, addressing providers who market mental-health diagnosis and treatment without licensure, passed the Utah Senate after sponsor described the measure as drawing a clear line between regulated mental-health professionals and unlicensed 'life coaches.' The bill also creates an education enforcement fund.
Senate Bill 48, titled Behavioral Health Amendments, cleared the Utah Senate after floor debate that centered on the scope of practice for people who provide mental-health services or market mental-health diagnosis.
Senator McCall, the bill sponsor, told the Senate the measure is intended to provide "guardrails" by requiring that anyone who practices, markets or discusses mental-health diagnosis be a regulated mental-health professional. On the floor he singled out line 155 of the bill as…
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