Kansas advisory committee reports ASPPB will not immediately require EPPP2; task force to study implementation

David Fye, the BSRB executive director, reported on the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) annual meeting and an effort led by some states to limit ASPPB's ability to unilaterally require the EPPP2 exam. Fye said an ASPPB letter, issued about a week before the meeting, signaled the association would "pause" the prior timetable and form a task force to study how to implement or integrate an exam that might combine knowledge and skills components.

"As of January 1, 2026, it is no longer going to be a requirement that people have to pass the EPPP and the EPPP 2," Fye reported, adding that the future shape of licensing exams "I can't say" but that a task force will work through the next year. Committee members had previously recommended the advisory committee and board support a bylaw amendment from Texas that would limit ASPPB's ability to mandate EPPP2 without broader consensus; Fye said Kansas's voice and similar concerns were heard at the annual meeting.

Members discussed costs — noting separate fees for the EPPP and EPPP2 — and the practical difficulty some jurisdictions would face implementing an additional mandatory component through state legislative processes. The committee took no direct regulatory action on the exam at this meeting but asked staff to monitor ASPPB developments and to bring any needed policy recommendations back to the board.