Article archive / June 1, 2013
Originally published: . Volume 4, No. 10. Source pages: 6.
Senate Bill 86 updates the LPC fees and changes certain other issues for the Licensed Professional Counselor Board.
The law provides the maximum amount of each fee the board may collect as follows: Fees established and collected by the board pursuant to this Chapter shall be set by rule and shall not exceed the following maximum amounts: (a) Application of privilege, credential, or registration $200 (b) Application of licensure $325 (c) Renewal of privilege, credential, registration, or license $300 (d) Examination or reexamination $250 e) Late fees $100, f) Failure to update contact information with board, $100, […]
The law will provide that the board shall not increase any fee by more than a total of 15% over a consecutive three-year period.
The proposed new law will also allow the board to issue a registration as a counselor intern to an applicant who meets qualifications established by the board.
Also, the proposed law authorizes the board to issue a registration as a marriage and family therapist intern to an applicant who meets qualifications established by the board.
Also, the new law provides that the board may request and obtain state and national criminal history record information from the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information of the office of state police within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the Federal Bureau of Investigation relative to any applicant for licensure whose fingerprints the board has obtained pursuant to law for the purpose of determining the applicant's suitability and eligibility for licensure.
The new law will also provides that any and all state or national criminal history record information obtained by the board from the bureau or FBI which is not already a matter of public record shall be deemed nonpublic and confidential information restricted to the exclusive use by the board, its members, officers, investigators, agents, and attorneys in evaluating the applicant's eligibility or disqualification for licensure.
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