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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.46.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.46.2
(a) Except for experience gained by attending workshops, seminars, training sessions, or conferences, as described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 4999.46, direct supervisor contact shall occur as follows: (1) Supervision shall include at least one hour of direct s
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.46.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.46.3
(a) A clinical counselor trainee, associate, or applicant for licensure shall only perform mental health and related services as an employee or volunteer, and not as an independent contractor. The requirements of this chapter regarding hours of experience and supervision shall ap
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.46.4
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.46.4
(a) A clinical counselor trainee, associate, or applicant for licensure shall only perform mental health and related services at the places where their employer permits business to be conducted. (b) An associate who is employed by or volunteering in a private practice or a profes
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.46.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.46.5
The board may audit the records of any supervisor to verify the completion of the supervisor qualifications specified by this chapter and by regulation. A supervisor shall maintain records of completion of the required supervisor qualifications for seven years after termination o
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.48
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.48
The board shall adopt regulations regarding the supervision of associates that may include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Supervisor qualifications. (b) Continuing education requirements of supervisors. (c) Registration or licensing of supervisors, or both. (d) Genera
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.5
The respective healing arts licensing boards shall be responsible for enforcing this chapter and any other laws and regulations affecting California licensed health care professionals providing telephone medical advice services.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.50
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.50
(a) The board may issue a professional clinical counselor license to any person who meets all of the following requirements: (1) He or she has received a master’s or doctoral degree described in Section 4999.32 or 4999.33, as applicable. (2) He or she has completed at least 3,000
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.51
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.51
An applicant for licensure as a professional clinical counselor or registration as an associate shall satisfy the following qualifications: (a) Not be subject to denial of licensure pursuant to Section 480. (b) (1) Not have been convicted of a crime in this or another state or in
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.52
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.52
(a) Every applicant for a license as a professional clinical counselor shall take one or more examinations, as determined by the board, to ascertain their knowledge, professional skills, and judgment in the utilization of appropriate techniques and methods of professional clinica
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.53
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.53
(a) Effective January 1, 2016, a registrant or an applicant for licensure as a professional clinical counselor shall pass the following examinations as prescribed by the board: (1) A California law and ethics examination. (2) A clinical examination administered by the board, or t
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.55
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.55
(a) Each applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California law and ethics examination in order to qualify for licensure. (b) A registrant shall take a board-administered California law and ethics examination before their registration renewal
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.60
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.60
(a) The board may issue a license to a person who, at the time of submitting an application for a license pursuant to this chapter, holds a license in another jurisdiction of the United States as a professional clinical counselor at the highest level for independent clinical prac
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.61
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.61
(a) This section applies to persons with education gained from an out-of-state school or experience gained outside of California who apply for licensure or registration who do not qualify for a license under Section 4999.60. (b) The board shall accept education gained from an out
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.62
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.62
(a) This section applies to persons with education gained from an out-of-state school who apply for licensure or registration and who do not qualify for a license under Section 4999.60. (b) For purposes of Section 4999.61, education is substantially equivalent if all of the follo
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.64
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.64
(a) Effective January 1, 2016, an applicant who fails the examination specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 4999.53 may, within one year from the notification date of that failure, retake the examination as regularly scheduled without further application upon p
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.66
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.66
(a) On or after January 1, 2021, an applicant for licensure as a professional clinical counselor shall show, as part of the application, that they have completed a minimum of six hours of coursework or applied experience under supervision in suicide risk assessment and interventi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.67
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.67
(a) On or after July 1, 2023, an applicant for licensure as a professional clinical counselor shall show, as part of the application, that they have completed a minimum of three hours of training or coursework in the provision of mental health services via telehealth, which shall
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.7
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.7
(a) This section does not limit, preclude, or otherwise interfere with the practices of other persons licensed or otherwise authorized to practice, under any other provision of this division, telephone medical advice services consistent with the laws governing their respective sc
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.70
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.70
A licensee shall display their license in a conspicuous place in the licensee’s primary place of practice when rendering professional clinical services in person.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.71
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.71
(a) A licensee or registrant shall provide a client with a notice written in at least 12-point type prior to initiating psychotherapy services, or as soon as practicably possible thereafter, that reads as follows: NOTICE TO CLIENTS The Board of Behavioral Sciences receives and re
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.72
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.72
Any licensed professional clinical counselor who owns a business using a fictitious business name shall not use any name that is false, misleading, or deceptive, and shall inform the patient, prior to the commencement of treatment, of the name and license designation of the owner
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.74
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.74
Licensed professional clinical counselors shall provide to each client accurate information about the counseling relationship and the counseling process.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.75
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.75
(a) A licensed professional clinical counselor shall retain a client’s or patient’s health service records for a minimum of seven years from the date therapy is terminated. If the client or patient is a minor, the client’s or patient’s health service records shall be retained for
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.76
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.76
(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (d), the board shall not renew any license pursuant to this chapter unless the applicant certifies to the board, on a form prescribed by the board, that the applicant has completed not less than 36 hours of approved continuing education i
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.8
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 4999.8
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Artificial intelligence” or “AI” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 11546.45.5 of the Government Code. (b) “Generative artificial intelligence” or “GenAI” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 11